Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Very slow reading DVD

[Ketil Froyn]

Try using dvdisaster instead of ddrescue, it has some different strategies
that may be better tuned to your issues.

Regards, Ketil

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 17:31 <address@hidden> wrote:

> Recently bought a DVD set used. Having extreme difficulty playing one of
> the discs on any player. The disc is not significantly scratched. This is
> what dd_rescue is doing:
>
> ddrescue -n -b2048 /dev/dvd /disk3/b5_2_1 mapfile
>
> GNU ddrescue 1.20
> Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
> rescued:     1793 MB,   errsize:         0 B,    current rate:       0 B/s
>    ipos:     5002 MB,    errors:         0,      average rate:    205 kB/s
>    opos:     5002 MB,  run time:  2h 25m 21s,  remaining time:  1d 19h 22m
> time since last successful read:         10s
>
> I don't think this is a bug and the DVD drive I'm using works fine with
> other discs. What is going on here? Is it bit rot?
>
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