Comment by sandreas
1 day ago
I did some research in dumping damaged dvds lately because I had some little treasures laying around that were just unusable.
I had good success using DVD Decrypter (hardly available, I got my copy years ago) ignoring bad sectors in the settings, Redumper[1] and, if DVD is only scratched very badly using car-anti-scratch / polish chemicals with a lot of patience [2] (some hints: Toothpaste does not work unless it is whitening toothpaste, don't use tools like a drill, will make the problems even worse, prefer the slow process of polishing by hand).
Wow. Thanks for the heads up on DVD Decrypter being harder to get these days. I had no idea. When I return home I'm going to have the sift through all my old files and see if I still have a copy somewhere. Great little piece of software.
The Wikipedia article about it has a link to an unofficial mirror that appears to be hosting a copy of the installer of the last release of the program, from 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Decrypter
MakeMKV is where it's at now as far as I know.
Yes, with a LibreDrive compatible drive ideally.
I bet that somehow you can make ImgBurn (the successor) include the old features (e.g. by setting a hidden key in the environment variables or something).
If not, the code was probably patched out in the build process...
i doubt it, the author got sued and has no desire to be sued again.