One For Chris Or Any Other Techie Please

[Bobbisox1]

i have two disks i made circa 2006 one of my grandson when he was two . another of a family holiday in Portugal, theyll play on my PC but not on my Bluetooth Player to the TV, I have Winx dvd Ripper and I thought I would rip the files and make a new disk but I get a message saying 'damaged disk'
any ideas please?

[Old_Geezer]

I don't know much about disks, but I do know that a data only disk will play on a PC but there needs to be additional nonsense on the disk to play on HiFi equipment. Might it be that it has never played anywhere but a PC ?

In any case, if it plays, the data must be there. Perhaps you can copy individual files to the PC for safekeeping before trying to recreate another playable disk.

[Old_Geezer]

Do you have software that can do a check on the disk ? If not there must be freeware somewhere you and find & download.

[Buenchico]

VLC should help here. (I'm assuming that you've already got it on your PC. If not, download and install it first: https://www.videolan.org/ ).

The first thing to try should be to rip the DVD:
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/rip-dvd-vlc

If that doesn't work, you can simply play the DVD with VLC and record from it as you do so. This link is basically an ad for a product that you DON'T need and I'm NOT suggesting that you should buy it. However it does contain a section headed "The Steps to Copy and Record a DVD with VLC", which explains how you can use VLC to achieve your aim. (Just ignore the ad that follows it!):
https://www.easefab.com/handy-tips/vlc-copy-dvd-for-free.html

If the first (ripping) method doesn't work then, as long as the DVD will play on your PC, the second one most definitely should.

[DTCwordfan]

wow - best answer there and a pic of honour to be awarded to Chris...

[Bobbisox1]

Hi chaos thank you all , just back from having coffee and birt cake ( my daughters birthday) I’ll do that Chris, thank you
O_ G they used to play on my DVD/ Bluetooth player years ago, they’re important to me so I’d love to copy the files and be able to watch them on my TV again

[Bobbisox1]

Chaos ??? Haha
Chaps