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    Unable to open certain DVDs, and unable to close the program

    Most DVDs that I buy, DVDFab copies fine. Occasionally I buy used DVDs that turn out to be badly scatched or damaged, and DVDFad will not open them, no big surprise there, no complaint.

    But twice in the past 2 months I've bought what seem to be new, non-defective DVDs that play fine on a standalone DVD player, but DVDFab 8.1xxQT cannot open them, and I cannot stop the 'opening DVD' process, which just loops endlessly, and I have to kill the program with task manager.

    And yet in both cases, when I tried uninstalling DVDFabQT and reverted to pre-Qt version 8.0.8.5, then I was able to open and copy them.

    It's a little irritating that DVDFab QT freezes in these situations, and I have to force-kill it. Is there some technique or setting I am missing/doing wrong that would at least allow me to close the 'opening DVD' gracefully?

    And it's certainly irritating that the LATEST version of the program is unable to copy a DVD when the OLDER version of the program succeeds. Is there some new setting in the QT versions of the program, that were not there previously, that maybe I'm unaware of?

    The DVDs in question were 'Some Like it Hot' 50th anniv 2-disk, and 'Psycho' Collectors Edition. The DVDFabQT versions were 8.1.1.9 for the former, and 8.1.2.6 for the latter.

    I'm using Win7 64-bit, my drives are blu-ray burners (ASUS and LITE-on), and I always copy at quality 9 onto hard drive. Basically I use DVDFab to put my DVD collection onto my network server.

    Any help, hints, advice, tips would be appreciated. Should I just stick with the old version of DVDFab? Seems a shame to have to do that.

    #2
    No, I seriously doubt that you're missing anything and no surprise you're frustrated.

    You can try the usual stuff such as altering the PathPlayer settings and such, but on occasion the newer versions of Fab
    stumble/fail on an older flick...on what should be an easy rip.
    It's pretty rare, but it happens.
    It's actually been this way since version 2.xxx...lol

    Anyway, no reason to uninstall your current QT version when using a pre-QT version, just keep 'em both installed.
    All major versions are automatically installed in separate and distinct folders and are independent of one another.
    This goes for 8.xxx and 8.xxx QT as well.

    You also can modify the install file path of any specific version, so for eg., you can have multiple QT versions installed and working if you so desire.
    Last edited by maineman; 10-22-2011, 07:42 PM. Reason: clarification...I hope...
    If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

    You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow. | Lauren Bacall | "To Have and Have Not" (1944).

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      #3
      Interesting, I have had the same problem a few times and now on Penguins of Madagascar: New to the Zoo.
      I tried both 8.0.8.5 and 8.1.2.6. In reading this note, I tried disabling PathPlayer and it works.
      Here's what I get in the info log:
      Disc media: DVD
      Disc type: DVD-Video
      Disc region: 1, 4
      Volume name: PENGUINS_NEW_TO_THE_ZOO
      Video standard: NTSC
      Layer 0 size: 1995536 sectors (3897 MBytes)
      Layer 1 size: 1995536 sectors (3897 MBytes)

      CSS (Content Scramble System) protection is removed!
      RC (Region Code) protection is removed!
      RCE (Region Code Enhancement) protection is not found.
      APS (Analog Protection System) protection is not found.
      UOPs (User Operation Prohibitions) protection is removed!

      Invalid PTTs protection is not found.
      Invalid PGCIs protection is not found.
      Invalid PGCs protection is not found.
      Invalid TMAPs protection is not found.
      Invalid CELLs protection is removed!
      Invalid VOBUs protection is removed!
      Fake vts 1 is removed!
      Fake vts 13 is removed!
      2 fake vts protections are removed!
      Potential bad sector (vts:7 menu begin:0 end:651) is removed!
      Potential bad sector (vts:10 title begin:0 end:814) is removed!
      2 potential bad sector protections are removed!
      Structure protection (ARccOS, RipGuard, etc.) is removed!

      PathPlayer is enabled!
      Unplayable cell (vts:3 title pgc:1 cell:1) is removed!
      Unplayable cell (vts:3 title pgc:1 cell:2) is removed!
      Unplayable cell (vts:6 title pgc:1 cell:1) is removed!
      Unplayable cell (vts:6 title pgc:122 cell:1) is removed!
      Unplayable cell (vts:6 title pgc:123 cell:1) is removed!
      Unplayable cell (vts:6 title pgc:124 cell:1) is removed!
      Unplayable cell (vts:7 title pgc:11 cell:1) is removed!
      Unplayable cell (vts:10 title pgc:2 cell:1) is removed!
      Unplayable cell (vts:10 title pgc:3 cell:1) is removed!
      Unplayable cell (vts:10 title pgc:4 cell:1) is removed!
      Unplayable cell (vts:10 title pgc:5 cell:1) is removed!
      Unplayable cell (vts:10 title pgc:6 cell:1) is removed!
      12 unplayable cells are removed!

      What is PathPlayer and why would I use it?
      Thanks,
      HT

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        #4
        What is Pathplayer?
        Click on the link below.

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