Dragon Ball is unable to rip

[CoolJZero]

Hey there guys first time on the board now I was digitizing my dvd and Blu ray collection using all types of software and when I exhausted my list ended up using Make mkv I have used it to digitize more then half my collection with some issues here and there but that's a topic for another post. My main issue here is when I try to rip my dragon Ball and Z collection first and second disc for both I seem to be getting an error telling me the disc was made by dvd fab/mac ripper, please use genuine disc instead, now that got me worried because I thought I bought a genuine copy so I downloaded VSO inspector and it tells me the disc has only 1 layer and the file size is 4.2gb and it's able to play on all regions plus the burn date was 2052. Is there anyone here with a genuine collection that could confirm some information about the disc because I'm afraid I have purchased an inferior copy. The disc it self looks very authentic the art work is printed on you can't see the data on the disc and obviously everything from the sleeve to the case seem spot on.

[obsidian1200]

I ran into this with a bundle of Dragon Ball on Amazon that had the entire series. I returned that set and bought the seasons as individual sets. All the discs in the bundle that could be read produced the same message regarding DVDfab, but a few disks couldn't be read at all. From the individual seasons, these are some of the immediate differences I saw:

• On the disks from the bundle, the yellow text on the label was matte. On the individual seasons, the yellow text on the label was gold and reflective.
• The disks from the bundle were single layer. The individual sets had dual layer disks. The sets both had the same # of disks, so the video files from the bundle had lower video/audio quality compared to the individual sets.
• The packaging on the bundle had some slight color-matching issues between the sleeve and case. On the individual sets the colors weren't mismatched.

Here's the file info via MediaInfo from my copy of S1D1_T00 for comparison.

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General
Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 2
File size                                : 1.03 GiB
Duration                                 : 24 min 12 s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 6 089 kb/s
Movie name                               : Dragon Ball S1 D1
Encoded date                             : UTC 2022-05-13 23:39:11
Writing application                      : MakeMKV v1.16.7 linux(x64-release)
Writing library                          : libmakemkv v1.16.7 (1.3.10/1.5.2) x86_64-linux-gnu

Video
ID                                       : 1
ID in the original source medium         : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings                          : CustomMatrix / BVOP
Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom
Format settings, GOP                     : Variable
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG2
Codec ID/Info                            : MPEG 1 or 2 Video
Duration                                 : 24 min 12 s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 5 535 kb/s
Maximum bit rate                         : 9 400 kb/s
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Frame rate mode                          : Variable
Frame rate                               : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Scan order                               : 2:3 Pulldown
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.668
Time code of first frame                 : 00:59:59:00
Time code source                         : Group of pictures header
Stream size                              : 958 MiB (91%)
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : No
Forced                                   : No
Original source medium                   : DVD-Video

Audio #1
ID                                       : 2
ID in the original source medium         : 189 (0xBD)128 (0x80)
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name                          : Dolby Digital
Format settings                          : Dolby Pro Logic IIz
Codec ID                                 : A_AC3
Duration                                 : 24 min 12 s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 448 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel layout                           : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 77.6 MiB (7%)
Title                                    : Surround 5.1
Language                                 : English
Service kind                             : Complete Main
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No
Original source medium                   : DVD-Video

Audio #2
ID                                       : 3
ID in the original source medium         : 189 (0xBD)129 (0x81)
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name                          : Dolby Digital
Codec ID                                 : A_AC3
Duration                                 : 24 min 12 s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 96.0 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Channel layout                           : C
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 16.6 MiB (2%)
Title                                    : Mono
Language                                 : Japanese
Service kind                             : Complete Main
Default                                  : No
Forced                                   : No
Original source medium                   : DVD-Video

Text #1
ID                                       : 4
ID in the original source medium         : 189 (0xBD)32 (0x20)
Format                                   : VobSub
Codec ID                                 : S_VOBSUB
Codec ID/Info                            : Picture based subtitle format used on DVDs
Duration                                 : 466 ms
Bit rate                                 : 17.1 kb/s
Count of elements                        : 1
Stream size                              : 996 Bytes (0%)
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No
Original source medium                   : DVD-Video

Text #2
ID                                       : 5
ID in the original source medium         : 189 (0xBD)33 (0x21)
Format                                   : VobSub
Codec ID                                 : S_VOBSUB
Codec ID/Info                            : Picture based subtitle format used on DVDs
Duration                                 : 23 min 50 s
Bit rate                                 : 4 113 b/s
Count of elements                        : 277
Stream size                              : 718 KiB (0%)
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : No
Forced                                   : No
Original source medium                   : DVD-Video

Menu
00:00:00.000                             : en:Chapter 01
00:01:50.143                             : en:Chapter 02
00:02:30.316                             : en:Chapter 03
00:12:03.756                             : en:Chapter 04
00:22:34.353                             : en:Chapter 05

Hope that helps some.

[CoolJZero]

So just to clear things up did you return the bundle because it wasn't genuine or was it more like a manufacturer that would use single layer for bundles and dual layer for singles. It's just that I want to know if my copy is genuine or not.

[obsidian1200]

I returned the bundle when I ran into ripping issues on the disks. I can't say whether the original bundle was genuine or not, just that it was not identical to the individual sets. There were certainly quality differences in the content between the two, physical differences aside.

Also, I own a fair number of Funimation's DVD collections, and that bundle was the first I've ran into that's produced the DVDFab message.