• @[email protected]
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    Disc-rot. -It happens but it’s not as common as its made out to be. In my collection it’s only occured in 2 out of 500+ discs.

    apparently xbox 360 discs were particularly susceptible.

    • Captain Aggravated
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      74 hours ago

      A couple years ago I made a big project to rip all my DVDs.

      Out of several hundred movies only 6 were unplayable. There didn’t seem to be a pattern to it either; age of the disc, wear or handling, big budget then current release or old movie slapped onto a disc in one of those cheap cardboard sleeves.

      Out of my collection of TV shows on DVD, easily a quarter of the discs failed, and if one disc in a season of a show didn’t work most of them probably wouldn’t. Many had visible blotch marks in them. I figure they probably used a cheaper manufacturing process for TV shows where they were selling 3 to 6 discs rather than one, maybe two discs with a single movie on it.

    • @GreenKnight23
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      54 hours ago

      and that’s why I left all my 360 games on top of the TV all these years. we rotate them out as coasters just to make sure they’re still getting used.

  • @aesthelete
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    I’m old enough to remember people lying that compact discs were practically indestructible.

    I think the early rounds of those trying to get people to switch to the format were motivated by the fact that tapes were easily recordable by everyone.

    • @[email protected]
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      117 hours ago

      I have Audio-CDs from the 80s that are still playing 40 years later. And I have CDs with deep scratches that also play without problems.

      • JohnEdwa
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        23 hours ago

        Disk rot usually happens when air gets in contact with the reflective coating and oxidises it. With CD’s, it’s actually the top side you need to be worried about, as it’s right there under a thin lacquer coating. Any ding to that can expose the layer or just literally chip off a chunk of data.

        At least on DVD’s it’s sandwiched inside the disk, so usually the only reason is a manufacturing error, and not really something the user can cause.

    • @rottingleaf
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      I think the early rounds of those trying to get people to switch to the format were motivated by the fact that tapes were easily recordable by everyone.

      Tapes tear and require mechanical parts. But it wouldn’t happen were there not commercial interest.

      • @PalmTreeIsBestTree
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        84 hours ago

        Tapes are overall simply worse. The fact that the more you use them lends to them becoming worse quality overtime is a big reason they suck.

        • @dust4ngel
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          34 hours ago

          you could run while listening to tapes - CDs kind of but not really

      • @[email protected]
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        55 hours ago

        Except cds had better audio quality, you could shuffle or skip, they didn’t where out or get “eaten” by the player, there was no rewinding or having to flip the tapes over, you could install cd changers in your car so you wouldnt have to swap discs around, and there was still no preventing you from recording a cd onto a cassette if you wanted. My old boombox could bootleg that shit easy as could be.

        No one in or out of the industry wanted to keep cassettes. By comparison, they were trash.

        • @rottingleaf
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          We-ell, the position being saved was a nice feature. And I know all that.

  • @jamie_oliver
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    129 hours ago

    This happened to about five of my 360 games. I was so disappointed when I set it up after YEARS and went to play old favorites and the discs were rotted…

    • @adavis
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      This is one of my motivations for dumping my games and modding my consoles. Pull out Wii sports and it doesn’t work? No problems I’ll run it off usb.

  • @Agent641
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    Plastic shopping bag: lasts 1000 years stuck in a bush outside a Tesco without breaking down

    Carefully engineered storage medium stored in ambient temperature indoors in a case:

    • @rottingleaf
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      Plastic shopping bag: lasts 1000 years stuck in a bush outside a Tesco without breaking down

      I know you didn’t mean it, but actually they break down into smaller and smaller fragments very easily because of temperatures changing, so not visible after a few winters. Maybe except areas which don’t freeze, like those plastic floating islands in the Pacific.

    • @BeMoreCareful
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      What about Linux? I’m a recent conver that was used to makemkv

    • @[email protected]
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      There are so many high quality rips out there. Bothering to rip these yourself makes not much sense, unless its very obscure stuff.

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s the letter of the law: media shifting is legal in some places where downloading a copy from an unofficial site is not. Also, there are people out there who would not have the first idea where to look for an existing rip.

        • Rentlar
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          914 hours ago

          And a mix of available copies/qualities are better.

      • Jo Miran
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        711 hours ago

        …unless its very obscure stuff.

        That’s primarily why you’d be ripping stuff. There is so much stuff only available on VHS and DVD.

      • alcoholic_chipmunk
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        411 hours ago

        Most rips tend to apply some compression. Ripping them yourself will generally give you a better result unless you also intend to compress them.

      • @TK420
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        310 hours ago

        obscure stuff.

        Obi-Wan meme: That’s why I’m here

    • @doodledup
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      615 hours ago

      I gave up encoding with handbrake. It looks much worse after the fact 99% of the time, no matter which settings I use.

      • @SmoothLiquidation
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        I’m not sure what you were trying, but this works for me:

        Never use hardware encoding. That is intended for real time transcoding. There are not many settings that work since it is just sending the file to the video card and letting it do its thing.

        Slower is better. If you set the software encoder to very slow it will produce an output that is very high quality per megabyte. I generally don’t care if it takes twice as long to encode it as to watch it. I queue it up and let it run over night.

        Choose the right codec. I like 10 bit HEVC, because I know it will work on the clients I play it from. When you rip a DVD using MakeMKV, the video will be MPEG-2, it was designed in the 1990’s and converting the file to a modern codec will save a lot of space. I don’t reencode 4K UHD rips much since I don’t want to mess with losing the hdr or other color features that I like in watching those files.

        Audio tracks: I will rip out audio for languages I don’t speak, or desctiptive audio track, but go out of my way to label things like director commentaries. I don’t reencode the audio tracks at all, you won’t save much disk space by messing with them compared to the video tracks.

        • @[email protected]
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          49 hours ago

          Be sure to use constant quality mode too. Set the RF to around 16-18 for SD video when using x264 or x265. The lower you set it, the higher the quality is.

  • @aquilarift
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    2016 hours ago

    Back them up while you can.

    • sunzu2
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      There are other alternatives to recover the lost media.

      But people should take note for anything that was not popular… Prolly should back that Linux iso up and start torrenting it