WARNING: Failed to Read DVD - All of a sudden

[jasonbub]

Hi,

I just purchased Aladdin and Meet the Parents. Both are having the same problem.

I get the following message:
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AnyDVD 6.6.0.9
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WARNING!

Failed to read DVD!

This could have several reasons:

1. - DVD Media is dirty, you can try to clean it.

2. - DVD Media is damaged, you have to replace it.

3. - Your drive is a region locked RPC2 drive, which does not allow reading of scrambled sectors from a different region and you try to read a DVD from a different region.
Known drives having this problem are RICOH/PHILIPS DVD Writers and Matshita/Panasonic DVD readers and writers.
You can try to find a RPC1 patched firmware at http://www.rpc1.com

4. - Your drive is an RPC2 drive that has not yet been assigned a Region. Try to assign one, or try to find a RPC1 patched firmware at http://www.rpc1.com
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OK
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Any ideas?

I have attached the AnyDVD log.

Thanks in advance.
Jason

[mike_r]

AnyDVD_Status

Summary for drive D: (AnyDVD 6.6.0.9)
OPTIARC DVD RW AD-7173A 1-03 JUN21,2007
Drive (Hardware) Region: 1

Media is a DVD.
Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 2 (opposite)
Size of first Layer: 2041504 sectors (3987 MBytes)
Total size: 4064296 sectors (7938 MBytes)

Video DVD (or CD) label: MEET_THE_PARENTS
Media is CSS protected!
Video Standard: NTSC
Media is locked to region(s): 1!

Found & removed structural copy protection!
Found & removed invalid cell pieces!
Repaired invalid title search pointer table!
Found & removed bogus title set(s)!
Found & removed invalid VOBUs!
RCE protection not found.
UDF filesystem patched!
Autorun not found on Video DVD.
Found & removed 3 potential bad sector protections!
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 1!

The version of AnyDVD you are using ( 6.6.0.9 ) is up to date. If you are a registered user (http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=31136), I strongly recommend that you update to the latest beta (http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=37412) version 6.6.1.3

OPTIARC DVD RW AD-7173A 1-03 JUN21,2007
Please ensure you are using the latest firmware for your optical drive. See here (http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=18731).

Rip speeds on DVD and Blu-Ray might be improved by MediaCodeSpeedEdit (http://ala42.cdfreaks.com/MCSE/). Please see RIPLOCK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riplock).

If installed (often from Duplex Secure, Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120% ), uninstall SPTD, which is the culprit for slow rips.
See here (http://forum.slysoft.com/showpost.php?p=124439&postcount=5) and here (http://forum.slysoft.com/showpost.php?p=204669&postcount=30).

AnyDVD_Log

3.09s: read sectors failed, sense 3:2:0
3.78s: read sectors failed, sense 3:2:0
4.48s: read sectors failed, sense 3:2:0
5.17s: read sectors failed, sense 3:2:0
5.91s: read sectors failed, sense 3:2:0
6.64s: read sectors failed, sense 3:2:0
7.34s: read sectors failed, sense 3:2:0
8.08s: read sectors failed, sense 3:2:0
8.77s: read sectors failed, sense 3:2:0
9.47s: read sectors failed, sense 3:2:0
9.47s: read error 3262193 to 3262194, max 4064296, io->read_error 0

There are read errors which can be caused by a badly pressed disc, dirty disc, damaged disc, problematic filters, driver conflicts, and a slowly dying DVD drive among other things.

[bharath]

I was having similar problems all of a sudden. Setting the Region Code to 1 solved it. I never had to do this before. Weird all of a sudden I started seeing the same error.

[jasonbub]

Hi,

Thanks for the help!

I had checked before posting and the drive is indeed set to Region 1.

I will try the suggestions from Mike and let you know the results.

Jason