Help! Multiple issues with DVD backup

[Moses~tBD^]

your primary problems are based upon the machine you are using...........

I'm not criticizing that.............
but with that kinda CPU and RAM
these types of programs are gonna crash and screw up
if either (RAM or CPU) are occupied with anything else......

just make sure NOTHING else is using anything (RAM particularily)

and otherwise............
depending upon the sophistication of your machine
you can expect some problems

I'm not exactly "state of the art"
but I'm close
AMD 64 3800 significantly overclocked
over a Gig of Corsair 2-2-2-5 RAM
SLI
two Raptors in RAID 0
(I'm primarily a Gamer)

but sometimes they just don't "burn" right

If I waste 2 or 3 discs trying
I get worried
otherwise
just try again


and as I said to someone else................................

standalone players are the kiss of death
unless you have the latest greatest

they tend to lack the capability to play "everything"
If it works on WINDVD and/or POWERDVD
it is good
it's your standalone player that lacks the "ponies."

[panda123]

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah I suspected as much... in any case, is there a method you use to see if copies are ok? Because clone DVD doesn't tell me when there are errors, I normally find out later as i'm watching or trying to make a duplicate of the copy.

[Moses~tBD^]

No, I'm sorry
I tend to find out the same way
and despite what I said
if ya get to a "faster" PC..................


I don't get very many "failures"
maybe one outta twenty

[panda123]

I have read that a few errors here and there aren't a big problem for video dvds.. so is there a way to duplicate the backup while leaving out the bad sectors? As i mentioned before nero takes forever...

[Warlock]

You should not get any read errors. Try using dvd decrypter and copy from the original. Also try different media.

[DABhand]

As warlock said you probably got hit with protections and need DVD decryptor to remove the macrovision then use cloneDVD.

For the skipping burn at 4x or less, 8x seems to cause skipping on some home players and dvd-rom's

[panda123]

thanks for the replies. the problem is, I am trying to make a duplicate of the duplicate, if that makes sense. So the first duplicate I am trying to read contains errors that occured while I was burning. Now I want to ignore those errors while I read it to burn a second duplicate of the first duplicate. I know it's possible, but it just takes forever with nero because nero slows down the read speed so much. any other software I could try? thanks