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Our local library has the DVD "Frozen" available, but it's badly scratched. Our DVD player at home sometimes hangs, but then skips past the scratch and continues play after about a minute or so.

My laptop is not so friendly: he just hangs and keeps on hanging. It's amazing a cheap DVD player can actually play the DVD, and the very expensive laptop can't.

Is there a (software) way to playback the DVD "as good as possible"? So it doesn't hang 5 minutes while insisting to play the scratched part, but just skips a minute further until it can play again? A good application, high buffers, skip-on-scratch setting? I've tried VLC but the interface is ... really advanced.

Konerak
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  • try applying toothpaste on dvd, rub it starting from center and clockwise to outside border. u can use dd tool (linux) this too can copy all the files for u from dvd to harddisk and jumps over bad sectors – Botmaster Jul 25 '15 at 08:37
  • Thanks botmaster. I've looked around the site for other questions regarding scratched DVDs and found these advices, but this question is (imho) sufficiently different: it's not about files, but a video-DVD, and it's a rental DVD so I'd prefer not to mess with it too much. Rubbing on toothpaste (hardware fix) would really be my very last resort, I'd prefer a software option if possible. Skipping is allowed, hanging is to be avoided. – Konerak Jul 25 '15 at 08:39
  • we use dd to take an image of storage device which even works in very bad damages for forensics. u can try take an image from it to your harddisk and watch it there – Botmaster Jul 25 '15 at 08:46
  • Sometimes using a bit of baby oil on the scratches will allow it to read better (wipe off excess oil) – Moab Jul 25 '15 at 17:02

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