Re: Warning message about DVDFab
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:53 am
The question as posted by zecker in 2019 asking for clarification on newer builds of DVDfab still has not been answered definitively. Can we please get some clarification on this?
This warning was built into makemkv many many years ago, apparently due to a specific version of DVD fab ages ago that did seem to corrupt discs when backing up.
But this is 2020 and I don't see the point in the software warning us if the specific signature that indicated there would be corruption isn't even present and hasn't been for half a decade or even much longer than that. Instead of giving us this warning just because DVDfab was detected as being used to rip the disc, is it possible to detect if a certain signature is present, and then, and only then, tell us the disc may be corrupted? Or can the software not detect which version was used?
I see no value in warning us the disc may be corrupted if DVDFab fixed this ages ago and hasn't been an issue in any recent version in the last 5-8 years.
I'm asking mainly because I have a lot of older DVDs I'd like to make full disc backups of, but I'm still paranoid of using DVDfab because of this error that has been reminding me for years to not trust DVDfab. Am I safe to use newer recent builds of DVDFab to back up my collection without worrying about disc corruption?
This warning was built into makemkv many many years ago, apparently due to a specific version of DVD fab ages ago that did seem to corrupt discs when backing up.
But this is 2020 and I don't see the point in the software warning us if the specific signature that indicated there would be corruption isn't even present and hasn't been for half a decade or even much longer than that. Instead of giving us this warning just because DVDfab was detected as being used to rip the disc, is it possible to detect if a certain signature is present, and then, and only then, tell us the disc may be corrupted? Or can the software not detect which version was used?
I see no value in warning us the disc may be corrupted if DVDFab fixed this ages ago and hasn't been an issue in any recent version in the last 5-8 years.
I'm asking mainly because I have a lot of older DVDs I'd like to make full disc backups of, but I'm still paranoid of using DVDfab because of this error that has been reminding me for years to not trust DVDfab. Am I safe to use newer recent builds of DVDFab to back up my collection without worrying about disc corruption?