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Ripping Samsung VP-DC171 Camcorder On XP?

It has no way of connecting to the computer.I can play the discs in DVD form in my mom's Vista laptop and a DVD player,but it shows up as a blank disc on my computer.I tried a ripping program,but it comes out blank and gives an error halfway through.How can I get the files off the disc?

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Apr 14, 2009. 10:36 PMfrollard says:
Sounds like hardware compatibility with the disk/disk drive. I've had that problem with one of those samsung 'millenium falcon' looking cam-disc-corders before. Try using the 'finalize' or 'finish disk' function on the camcorder...
Apr 19, 2009. 12:31 AMfrollard says:
Can you rip them with the laptop, then move the files over a network to the desktop computer?
Jun 19, 2009. 12:02 AMfrollard says:
that is really...really awkward. Sorry I have no other solutions than hooking up as a video player then capturing the video. I hate dvd camcorders.

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