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If by "old DVD of local events" you really mean some DVD+/-R, it's probably not very surprising that disc rot has occured to it. In that case you might want to use ddrescue or alike to salvage what can possibly be from the disc. That's very possible. I don't know much about them, but thes...

Thanks for your help! Just tried this. Like before, it ran normally for a while before slowing down to a crawl without any errors for some time. Now this is what it looks like after "crawling" for about an hour or so.

I recently have been trying to rip some DVDs for probably the first time in over a decade, so please forgive my ignorance. These are old DVDs of local events, not studio releases or something. Several of them have ripped just fine, but a few of them seem to stall at some point and start throwing err...