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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rswafford on 2025-04-08 15:52:11.

I have a DVD that was produced in the mid 2010's which plays perfectly fine through VLC Media Player etc, and is nice and clean on the surface. I'm trying to rip it to mkv/mp4 so I can add it to Plex. What is beyond weird is when I open the disc in MakeMKV or DVD Decrypter, or even Windows File Explorer, the DVD is reporting it has almost 700 IFO/VOB/BUP files on it - and it looks like just repeated over and over the same core set of a BUP, an IFO, and 5 VOBs.

MakeMKV hangs forever trying to scan the disc. DVD Decrypter makes valiant attempts to read, but hits "pack header not found" errors on most of the VOBs and can't ever finish reading any of them. Windows Explorer reports the total size of all the files on the disc as 436 GB, and 696 total files. A snippet of the file list is below:

https://preview.redd.it/znex1xbiumte1.png?width=672&format=png&auto=webp&s=601be3afa2cbd07519951371a9cf25e008e9e7c0

The files are all numbered VTS_01 through VTS_99. All identical sizes... Never seen this before; how can I get this to rip successfully?

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