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OK, so I was trying to copy a factory-pressed DVD to my hard drive (by simple copy-paste, I'm making a backup copy) and it was going only 517 kb/sec. What happened?

No scratches. I held it up to the light, it was completely clear.
 
Figured it out. There was CSS on the disc. (Normally I rip homemade DVDs so I've never noticed it before.)

I got a DVD. Windows sees it as a blank DVD-R. So does ISOBuster. (Yes, I tried running as administrator.) When I look at the back of the disc, I can "see" the data as a darker area. Any way to pull it off? Googling brought up ISOBuster again and again. There's no way to access the machine it was created on (somebody mailed me the DVD).

Edit: Another oddity: It plays perfectly in my portable DVD player.

Another edit: There was gradual degradation of the audio/video, for example audio crackling and the picture going blocky. Not even halfway through there was a huge crack and the screen went blank and no more Petty. LOL
 
Another oddity: I have this portable CD player, the sticker says 1998. Although it plays factory-pressed CDs fine, burned CDs sound "watery." What exactly is causing this? My hypothesis is something to do with the way the laser reads the data.
 
The other week, I bought a camera. There was no cable though, and I don't have one to fit. Now, when I open up one of the little slots, there's this thin square thing, which is where I assume the pictures are stored. How do I get the pictures off it?
 
It says xD Picture , I'm not sure what that means.
 
Aimme, google the model, find out what a micro SD card looks like and compare it with yours. Not that difficult is it.
 
I'm trying to install an old game but it just won't work for some reason. I put the cd in and the computer freezes, or it takes a while and finally the autolauncher comes up but it only shows the buttons without the graphic. Then the installshield thing stops at 99 and doesn't say anything about something being wrong or anything. It's making the processor use a lot of power too. There's no visible scratches or anything on the cd and the dvd drive works fine, what could be wrong?

Okay, it went through enough to say that can't run 16bit windows or something, not enough memory to run program? Tried searching this on the windows site but of course it has nothing about this.
 
Ulyaoth said:
Okay, it went through enough to say that can't run 16bit windows or something, not enough memory to run program? Tried searching this on the windows site but of course it has nothing about this.
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If you have a 64-bit OS, it won't work.

If you have a 32-bit one, maybe your 16-bit subsystem is acting weird. I had it happen to me, in my case the installer froze up about halfway. I had to replace, I think some NTVDM.exe.
 
The thing is I'm pretty sure I remember playing this game on my operating system before, so I just don't get it, unless maybe it's the new computer for some reason.
 
When you right click on My Computer and look at the OS, is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
 
it's old windows xp, 32 bit. Been using the same os for years now, I've had to have played this game before on this operating system so I just don't get it.
 
Alright, so this isn't technically a computer question, but does anyone know if there are any mp3 players, other than iPods themselves, that can be connected to an iPod dock or that can use its FM transmitter? My iPod decided to give out on me apparently, so it's time to purchase a new mp3 player.
 
Most MP3 players use a standard MiniUSB connector. At least, the ones that my son and wife have, use this connector. And it comes with it, so you shouldn't have a problem. As for your files, the MP3 is more friendly on where the files can come from. So if you go to the My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\ folder, you can copy them straight to the MP3 player. It looks like a flash drive to the computer.

As for the FM transmitter, it's probably universal. Those are pretty standard plugs.
 
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