[panda123]

First off, I'm on a 1.6Ghz laptop with 512MB ram, using IOmega external USB 16x/8x (+r/-r) drive. I'm using clone DVD 2.4.5.4 and AnyDVD 4.0.4.1. I use Verbatim 8x DVD-r to burn. I heard Taiyo Yuden comes out under this brand, is this true? Anyway, thanks in advance for your help!

Issue #1
Any DVD videos I copy including the menu don't work half the time. For example, I burned Margaret Cho: Revolution with "Preserved Menus". It would not play on my standalone player NOR external drive (stuck trying to load menu on both). So I use clone DVD to make a copy of it (a copy of a copy) minus the menu and it works. strange... Similar for Family Guy. Preserved the menu and half of the episodes don't play on either, but the menu works on both.

Issue #2
Most of the DVDs I burn skip/stall like crazy on my standalone player (usually around where the chapters are divided) but work fine on my computer. Some even skip on my computer (I'll get to that). I have a pretty cheap Samsung standalone player around $100. Could that be it?

Issue #3
When I try to make a copy of a copy that I can play on my computer, sometimes it gives me a read error and aborts. So I use Nero to burn and tell it to ignore errors while reading. When I do that, everything's fine except it takes literally forever. For example, at 94% my copy of King Arthur started giving me errors, which Nero tried to ignore. Problem is, at the end of 16 hours it was still at 97%! Nero usually reads data at 25,000 kbps, but was stuck at 25-50 kbps once it found the errors, even after it seemingly found all of them. So I gave up. Anyway to work around this?

That's about the extent of my problems. Thanks for reading this far, and again, thanks in advance for any advice.