I've had my second experience in a week of DVDs with what appear to be far too many gigabyte files which cause DVDfab to slow down and eventually give up. I don't know whether this is just weird disc production or whether it's a new form of copy protection.
I'm not ripping or converting these discs, just doing straight copies onto a hard drive. I've done hundreds of these copies in the past without any difficulties so i don't know what's going on here. They are both Region 2 discs.
The DVDs giving me problems are RESTLESS (a single feature film, originally from the BBC but the DVD is by Metrodome) which has about 20 of these files- I gave up on copying this disc, it's available in HD free on YouTube anyway.
The other one is from the Wallander Swedish TV series, distributed with English subtitles by Arrow Films. I've copied series 1 to 3 without incident but now I'm on series 4 disc 1 (which contains just two films) and once again I have these multiple large files which start out copying fine but then grind to a near halt. There are 9 of these files, all named VTS_02_n.VOB where 0<=n<=8. File 0 is a mere 25Mb, and file 8 is about 500Mb, but all the others are over 1GB - and all vary in size by just a few bytes. When i tried doing a direct copy, rather than using DVDfab, files 0 and 1 copied across okay in a few minutes but file 2 took nearly an hour. Files 3, 4 and 5 were good, 4 minutes each, file 6 again started well but then dropped off and took 45 minutes, Files 7 and 8 are grinding along agonisingly slowly as I type.
I'm doing the copying from the DVD drive on an HP laptop via a wired thin ethernet network onto a Seagate 4Tb drive which is plugged into a WDTV Live, also connected via wire to the network. Other DVDs have copied without any problems over this setup, including series 3 of the Wallander films.
I confirm that I only make copies of DVDs I have purchased and indeed still own. I transfer them to hard drive to make them accessible for my disabled partner who can't leap up and down to change discs in a DVD player. I would love to buy legal downloads but English language versions don't appear to be accessible in our part of the world.
Please would someone advise me what to do should I encounter the problem again.
I'm not ripping or converting these discs, just doing straight copies onto a hard drive. I've done hundreds of these copies in the past without any difficulties so i don't know what's going on here. They are both Region 2 discs.
The DVDs giving me problems are RESTLESS (a single feature film, originally from the BBC but the DVD is by Metrodome) which has about 20 of these files- I gave up on copying this disc, it's available in HD free on YouTube anyway.
The other one is from the Wallander Swedish TV series, distributed with English subtitles by Arrow Films. I've copied series 1 to 3 without incident but now I'm on series 4 disc 1 (which contains just two films) and once again I have these multiple large files which start out copying fine but then grind to a near halt. There are 9 of these files, all named VTS_02_n.VOB where 0<=n<=8. File 0 is a mere 25Mb, and file 8 is about 500Mb, but all the others are over 1GB - and all vary in size by just a few bytes. When i tried doing a direct copy, rather than using DVDfab, files 0 and 1 copied across okay in a few minutes but file 2 took nearly an hour. Files 3, 4 and 5 were good, 4 minutes each, file 6 again started well but then dropped off and took 45 minutes, Files 7 and 8 are grinding along agonisingly slowly as I type.
I'm doing the copying from the DVD drive on an HP laptop via a wired thin ethernet network onto a Seagate 4Tb drive which is plugged into a WDTV Live, also connected via wire to the network. Other DVDs have copied without any problems over this setup, including series 3 of the Wallander films.
I confirm that I only make copies of DVDs I have purchased and indeed still own. I transfer them to hard drive to make them accessible for my disabled partner who can't leap up and down to change discs in a DVD player. I would love to buy legal downloads but English language versions don't appear to be accessible in our part of the world.
Please would someone advise me what to do should I encounter the problem again.
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