Questions tagged [dvd]
DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Time Warner in 1995.
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How to boot from CD drive on Dell Precision 3630
My Dell Precision 3630 Tower cannot boot from CD/DVD. The drive works under Windows 11, and I tested with several disks that boot on other machines.
These are some things I tried:
A bootable FreeDos ...
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How Does Duplicating Files To Reduce Read Time On Disks Work?
i recently looked into game files of a Sega Dreamcast game called "Tokyo Bus Guide", and i found a odd thing, there were tons of duplicate files!
when i researched on it and an Quora Comment ...
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I need to copy office 2010 DVD to usb. Are there hidden files on the DVD
I have an Office 2010 DVD and product key. I want to install it on a new computer.
The new computer doesn't have a DVD drive. When I mount the DVD drive on a Ubuntu PC it says that there are 2 ...
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Why doesn't it work to write a Windows ISO to an USB drive using dd? [duplicate]
For Debian Linux you can simply copy the installation ISO to an USB drive without modifying one single bit using dd. It's also possible to burn the ISO to a DVD without any modification.
But Windows ...
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ffmpeg won't subtract VOB subtitle, but VLC can show it
I want to download the subtitle using ffmpeg, but I cannot make it. I have tried many parameters but it seems the subtitle hidden somewhere. But when I play using VLC, I can use it.
This is the ...
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Does accidentally putting in a dvd damage a cd player?
There was a bonus disc with my cd which I assumed to be another cd, writing was very faint. After putting it in realized it was a dvd and now the cd player rarely works, was mostly working before. It’...
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FFMPEG - process interlaced frames in mixed footage separately
I have a video file - an NTSC DVD rip. I want to convert it into PAL. The problem with that NTSC DVD is that it's a mixture of 23.976 fps telecined content and true 29.97 fps interlaced content.
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Mount CD/DVD as external harddrive
I'm trying to use CDs and DVDs with Steam to play games off them. The only issue is that when you eject the CD, the list of installed games does not update like it would with a normal external drive.
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DVD+RW writing occasionally fails
EDIT: The issue has slowly and steadily gone away with much, much reading and writing through the night... Not sure what it is that's been fixed, if you're reading this and you're having the same ...
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Adding custom text after portable USB drive letter
Kinda fancy question, but how can I add custom text after portable drive letter name?
My DVD has the following name pattern:
Label (DriveLetter:) CustomText
But my other USB portable drive has:
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Unable to access a data track or sector on a Music CD?
I have a November 2006 music CD Single that has 3 audio tracks and it contains a artist specific software that allows the fans to do various things. This is an advertised selling point of this version ...
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Recover Data from a Re-writable CD/DVD
I have a re-writable CD/DVD that had a priceless (to me) document on it. When I went to copy the document it was not there. Instead there were three photos of my brother.
I am guessing that due to the ...
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How to convert home movie DVDs to .mpeg files?
My wife brought me a box of DVDs with her home movies from her life before me. I would like to store the contents permanently on our Linux home server alongside 100,000 jpg files and some more recent ...
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Bad graphics and unfinished boot from live CD, DVDs
i3-9100F, Nvidia RTX 2060 Super
I cannot seem to get live CD/DVDs to boot. I tried:
esSET sysRescue (2022-07-18 download) boot stop screenshot:
Kaspersky Rescue Disc v18.0.11.0 boot stop screenshot:
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Optical drive failing at specific disc locations: bad drive or bad disc?
I have an issue with my optical drive (DVD/Blu-Ray). It fails to read specific discs always at specific points on those discs. For example one disc always fails at the 49.5% point. Some other discs ...
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