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revmike Special user Annville, PA 646 Posts |
I just receive "Closure" yesterday from a reliable seller here on the Café - Unfortunately the DVD will not work - believe it must have been defective from the start as no obvious scratches, etc.
Seller offered to buy it back but I would love to keep it and work on it if possible - anybody have any suggestions - the DVD is totally unworkable - can't watch a thing, presentation, secrets, prep, etc. Open to suggestions if a way to keep it - feel free to PM me Mike
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brucewilcox Loyal user Readers advised to disregard most of my 266 Posts |
You may have already done this, but have you tried the disc in both a dedicated DVD player and in a computer's optical drive? I've seen disks that would play in one and not the other.
[edit] Oops - I'll PM this suggestion as you requested.
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revmike Special user Annville, PA 646 Posts |
Tried in my Blue Ray Player; tried in my regular DVD player; tried in 3 separate computers - tried cleaning it with DVD cleaner - Disc remains unplayable.
The magic is not in our sleights and illusions, but instead in our ability to bring love and joy.
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Chris Meece Special user Somerset Kentucky 864 Posts |
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
Give this a try on your PC. I use VLC player to play everything.
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knmagic Elite user 436 Posts |
Use the Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer) to see if you can see the contains of the DVD. If you can see any files, then just copy them all to hard drive and try to reburn it to another DVD using your DVD burner software
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Bill Brunelle Regular user 192 Posts |
I would just contact the producer of the video and straightforwardly tell him about your purchase and what the experience is. I suspect they will take care of you.
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cyberdave03 Loyal user 287 Posts |
Have you tried washing the optical side with soap and water, moving from the center to the edge, as in the direction of spokes on a wheel. The file structure of a dvd uses a critical file called video_TS.ifo. Sometimes oils or other gunk imperceptibly blocks this file, rendering the dvd unplayable.
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Frank Simpson Special user SW Montana 883 Posts |
Another possibility is that is might be regionally encoded to play elsewhere than the U.S.
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Mike Maturen Inner circle Michigan's Beautiful Sunrise Side 2726 Posts |
I'm with Frank on this one.
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Kevin Wade Loyal user 225 Posts |
I have found that "Media Player Classic" opens just about everything using Windows.
You can find many sites that provide a free download of this program. Kevin |
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