Trying to understand one error issue
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 5:33 am
I have looked over the "If you're experiencing rip errors, please read here first" thread. It's LONG and I did some scanning, but this is a bit more than just, "How to fix." I want to understand what's going on and why.
We live in the boonies, with crappy internet service and limited bandwidth. I let my wife stream some of the shows she likes because she enjoys it more than I do. I watch eBay, Amazon, and other places, for low prices on DVDs and BDs of TV shows. So when I'm watching something or we're watching something together, it's often a DVD "Complete set" of a TV series. I'm finding that it's almost impossible to order a TV show with more than 2 seasons and have all the DVDs rip easily. There seems to be at least one DVD or BD in each set that's got problems. Often I look and can see issues on the media. Many times, though, these discs play just fine in a player. It's only when ripping that they're an issue.
I get that I can clean it with a soft cloth and so on, but often that's not enough to make it work in a drive, even if it works in a player. I remember, at some point, reading a comment in a thread that players work differently. They read the file and if they encounter an error, they skip over it and keep going, and that often that can be done without an error perceptible to the human eye. I get that.
When I'm using MakeMKV, I know I can increase the number for how many read errors to allow, but it looks like that's just a "retry" count. If it's at 6, then MakeMKV will just retry reading that data 6 times. If it's a bad DVD, then that's it.
Does MakeMKV have any way to allow for errors? For instance, there's a tiny scratch and it's not impacting much data. Is there a way to tell MakeMKV to skip errors of a certain length? If not, why can't ripping a disc work like playing it in a player, where errors are skipped?
We live in the boonies, with crappy internet service and limited bandwidth. I let my wife stream some of the shows she likes because she enjoys it more than I do. I watch eBay, Amazon, and other places, for low prices on DVDs and BDs of TV shows. So when I'm watching something or we're watching something together, it's often a DVD "Complete set" of a TV series. I'm finding that it's almost impossible to order a TV show with more than 2 seasons and have all the DVDs rip easily. There seems to be at least one DVD or BD in each set that's got problems. Often I look and can see issues on the media. Many times, though, these discs play just fine in a player. It's only when ripping that they're an issue.
I get that I can clean it with a soft cloth and so on, but often that's not enough to make it work in a drive, even if it works in a player. I remember, at some point, reading a comment in a thread that players work differently. They read the file and if they encounter an error, they skip over it and keep going, and that often that can be done without an error perceptible to the human eye. I get that.
When I'm using MakeMKV, I know I can increase the number for how many read errors to allow, but it looks like that's just a "retry" count. If it's at 6, then MakeMKV will just retry reading that data 6 times. If it's a bad DVD, then that's it.
Does MakeMKV have any way to allow for errors? For instance, there's a tiny scratch and it's not impacting much data. Is there a way to tell MakeMKV to skip errors of a certain length? If not, why can't ripping a disc work like playing it in a player, where errors are skipped?