Hi have seen several people present scan of their DVD media produced by this program to show that they are either high quality or rubbish, I downloaded it and used it to scan a disk. However I can not find anything in the help file to tell you how to interpret the results? What makes a scan good or bad?
take a look thru the 1st link in my signature, i did some experimenting and more importantly summarised what it means. Well i've summarised how kprobe scans are interpreted in there. dvdinfopro scans are similar but in my opinion are a little trickier to interpret (just my opinion). Scans are all well and good but what is also good practice, is to CRC a disc too as the PIF etc scans don't always show errors on a disc where a CRC scan would. As i say, look at the 1st link and all should become clear..
Creaky, I downloaded the Kprobe2 progarm and used it to test 2 of the Octron DVD+R disks I use for data storage (all my Sony DVD-R and now Verbatims are at home). The Octron disks score around 21 for PI and 22 for PIF. The programme also said they are Ritek disks. Does this indicate that they are good disks?
the odd scan doesn't really prove anything. I personally only recommend people use top quality discs such as Verbatim datalifeplus, and TY provided you know exactly what you're getting as TY get faked a lot. I have used questionable discs before and had many 100s of good copies then intermittent bad copies on the same exact type/media code of discs. So i've done some experimenting with PIF scans etc, just to familiarise myself with them, and to help people realise (in my humble opinion) that scans are only part of the overall picture. People have the choice to buy cheaper/even crappy media, but i personally won't recommend it myself
