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Well it works, sort of. After six days of ddrescue running (94% recovery), I put it through the process(above). Makemkv got about half way through and errored out. So I tried Handbrake. Handbrake ended at roughly the same place but it did save the file(unlike Makemkv). The file played perfectly up u...

I THINK ddrescue uses direct (low level) access to the drive. This makes an exact(?) copy of what it sees on the drive. With DVDs this makes a good copy(iso) with the "protection" intact. Which you can then decrypt and rip. This can be REALLY handy on older discs that one cannot simply dec...

Ok, so I have got a few blurays that have seen better days. Doing a regular makemkv fails, using handbrake produces a shortened version. With a fair amount of experience recovering dvds, I thought ddrescue. I understand that makemkv needs the discattd.dat file to handle an encrypted iso. So here is ...