Monday, April 14, 2008

The definition of annoying

Extract DVR-R rip from ISO and unpack.
 
Feed through transcoder/burner while fails due to insufficent target size.  WTF?  The point of the transcoder is to compress the thing!
 
Try different mode on transcoder which fails with same error.  Getting annoyed.
 
Swear, dig out offboard transcoder.  Mount original DVR-R ISO and rip from there to HDD.  Target size is 4.35GB as expected.
 
Fire up burner and run.... same failure again.  Getting really annoyed now, what the fuck did they do to the rip when they made it?  Is there some sort of false-sized file I can't see, and if so how the hell does it get through two separate transcoders without an error?
 
Get out Nero, point at transcoded files as a source and set up a manual burn.  About 50MB inside disk capacity, great.  I'll fix you, you bastard.
 
2 seconds later Nero ejects the disk, which is its way of saying unsuitable media for some reason.
 
()#*&^#(*&#&#^%#*&#%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
So I'm about to rip out Mediacheck for a look at the disk to see if I've got an out of the spindle coaster or something, when I look at the disk again.... it's a printable, but the surface is smoother than I'm used to to.  I flip the disk over.
 
I've had a fucking printable CD in the drive.  ~~>X-|

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