purple-ish discs trying to open in manual mode

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dem-AlwaysSunny
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purple-ish discs trying to open in manual mode

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I have some discs that appear to be some kind of on-demand discs that have a pink/purple color. when opening normally it just hangs forever with no stop, im trying to open it in manual mode and i see this
Disc Information
Label : IASIP_S14_D1
Titles count : 14

Title information
1: 1/1 - 1 chapter(s) 0:00:11 1 cell(s)
2: 2/1 - 1 chapter(s) 0:00:05 1 cell(s)
3: 3/1 - 6 chapter(s) 0:23:32 6 cell(s)
4: 3/2 - 6 chapter(s) 0:23:32 6 cell(s)
5: 4/1 - 6 chapter(s) 0:22:05 6 cell(s)
6: 4/2 - 6 chapter(s) 0:22:05 6 cell(s)
7: 5/1 - 6 chapter(s) 0:22:58 6 cell(s)
8: 5/2 - 6 chapter(s) 0:22:58 6 cell(s)
9: 6/1 - 6 chapter(s) 0:22:16 6 cell(s)
10: 6/2 - 6 chapter(s) 0:22:16 6 cell(s)
11: 7/1 - 6 chapter(s) 0:22:02 6 cell(s)
12: 7/2 - 6 chapter(s) 0:22:02 6 cell(s)
13: broken entry
14: broken entry

these are always sunny in philadephia discs if that helps
i tried a few methods:
Open DVD manually : "1:3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12"
Manual String parse error : chapter 3 is invalid, should be 1-1
Manual String parse error : invalid subtoken: 3
Manual String parse error : invalid token: 1:3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12
Failed to open disc

Open DVD manually : "1:3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12"
Manual String parse error : chapter 3 is invalid, should be 1-1
Manual String parse error : invalid range: 3
Manual String parse error : invalid subtoken: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Manual String parse error : invalid token: 1:3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Failed to open disc
Open DVD manually : "1:3 1:4 1:5 1:6 1:7 1:8 1:9 1:10 1:11 1:12"
Manual String parse error : chapter 3 is invalid, should be 1-1
Manual String parse error : invalid subtoken: 3
Manual String parse error : invalid token: 1:3
Failed to open disc

so at this point i decided i just cant read, trying to follow https://www.makemkv.com/manualdvd/ which did work for me on some other discs but when they opened manually the format looked different
any help?
dem-AlwaysSunny
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Joined: Sun Sep 28, 2025 2:47 pm

Re: purple-ish discs trying to open in manual mode

Post by dem-AlwaysSunny »

figured it out, if anyone is interested
3:1-6 5:1-6 7:1-6 9:1-6 11:1-6
this got all five episodes off the disc just fine
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