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I've been trying to rip a few DVDs to my hard drive, mainly for editing. But the problem is, after about 53 minutes in, the video and audio freezes up until about 1:48. The picture just stops moving, and the audio stops, and I'm missing almost an hour of the movie.

While I can solve this problem by copying just the chapters that didn't work, this doesn't help me at ALL when I'm trying to copy the GOUT to replace the audio while keeping all the other features. I'm using a MacBook Pro, 2.4 GHz dual-core Intel, 4 GB memory, with a "SuperDrive" that used to work just fine. I've tried restarting and uninstalling/reinstalling MacTheRipper, and even using a different program (OSEx) with identical results.

What the *hell* is the issue here? It was working fine a few weeks ago, this just started happening I think last week.
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If it's doing it with different ripping programs, it may be hardware related. But, sometimes MTR goes crazy on me. Trashing its preferences file works for me. It's titled "com.Geezerbuttz.mtr.plist" and is located:

~/Library/Preferences/com.Geezerbuttz.mtr.plist

~ is your home directory. Delete that plist file and MTR will start up as if it were the first time. It might help and it won't hurt anything.

You might also try an external usb/firewire DVD drive and see if that can work. If it does then that might point to internal drive problems.

You can go about your business. Move along, move along.

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Hmm ... internal drive problems would be quite distressing as it's an expensive, brand-new laptop. I don't own any external drives and I don't particularly want to buy one (at least not until after I've taken care of an external hard drive, a new turntable and speaker system, car insurance, and several other issues), especially if it's only with ripping and not playback or burning.

Speaking of which ... what does that mean? If the discs it's having trouble ripping play fine, and burned discs work fine ... and yes, the ripping issue isn't just with MTR, as I said I tried OSEx, Handbrake, and I think one other with the same results (actually Handbrake gave me completely unreadable files in general- couldn't open them in anything) ....
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Being expensive and brand new is actually good. I'd take it to an Apple Store if there is one close. If not, take it to an authorized Apple repair center and have it looked at (or Apple directly if that's the only option). I'm sure either place would have an external drive to be able to see if that's the issue. If it is the internal drive that's screwed, at least it won't cost you anything other than inconvenience...

Good luck...

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I'd only be concerned about going to them and saying "this won't copy movies right, even though it plays them just fine" ... I suppose I could tell them I'm trying to put movies on my iPod or something to that effect ...
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Alright, I finally bit the bullet and bought an LG external DVD writer ...

... and had exactly the same problem I had with my MacBook's internal drive.

This is starting to seriously piss me off ... does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be the problem? Would a complete hard drive wipe/OS reinstall solve this? (If that's the case I'll wait till Leopard is released to do so)