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by slim0287
Tue Jan 04, 2022 12:17 am
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: DVD with content shows as blank
Replies: 5
Views: 4468

Re: DVD with content shows as blank

I figured I'd respond to my own thread in case it helps anyone out. I bought a bunch of content on several DVD-Rs. I wanted to rip them because my household runs on Roku and I have a Plex server. At a rate of roughly two out of every ten DVD-R discs, when inserted into the external optical drive on ...
by slim0287
Sat Dec 25, 2021 1:28 am
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: DVD with content shows as blank
Replies: 5
Views: 4468

Re: DVD with content shows as blank

My word we can read Egyptian papyrus that's been around for six thousand years and I'm struggling with a DVD-R produced last month :D Unfortunately the "burn on demand" disks were the only ones available for purchase in my case. It's odd that of my three drives (one DVD/CD, two 4K UHD/Blu-...
by slim0287
Fri Dec 24, 2021 9:19 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: DVD with content shows as blank
Replies: 5
Views: 4468

Re: DVD with content shows as blank

Forgive my naive question, but by digging out a "DVD reader" you mean a different, non-Blu-Ray, external drive? I clawed around my 'old electronic stuff' pile and found a Rioddas BT638 External DVD/CD drive and tried that with the same result, the DVD is found as blank. I'd purchase anothe...
by slim0287
Fri Dec 24, 2021 4:35 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: DVD with content shows as blank
Replies: 5
Views: 4468

DVD with content shows as blank

I've got an odd and frustrating issue. I have a few DVD-Rs which play fine in an Xbox One S, however when I try to read them with makeMKV it shows the DVDs as blank. The drive I am using is an archgon MD-8107-U3 which I flashed a couple of years ago following the old versions of the instructions giv...