[Gllug] How to manage scratched DVDs

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 31 Jan, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone
> 
> Sometimes when I watch a DVD on my laptop (using mplayer), a combination
> of a scratched DVD and an old / intolerant DVD drive means that the
> whole thing stops working. What I can't figure out is how to kill
> mplayer, eject the DVD, and stop the stream of "sense error" messages.
> 
> The drive uses the ide-cd. Is there maybe a way to tell that to give up
> and reset? 
> 
   I have seen someone cleaning a failed CD/DVD with a window cleaner spray
to make it work again, and it did work.


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Chris Bell

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