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DVD X copy opinions?
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brobear
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11. February 2006 @ 14:12 |
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AC3 is your typical system, It takes special equipment fot DTS. Recording both tracks takes quite a bit of space and can contribute to compression errors.
If the recorded DVDs are playing good on your PC and not the standalone, you may have run into a compatibility problem. If possible, try them on another standalone player.
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vonschr
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11. February 2006 @ 14:13 |
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OK, I made another copy of Lord of War at 4X and it works in all the players. I used an Imation DVD +R. I made another copy of another film using the Memorex again, this time at 4X, and it plays in the Panasonic. I think that the first DVD I made that would not play in the Panasonic was just a fluke. Anyway, bottom line is that Clone DVD2 and Any DVD seem to be performing better than the DVD XCopy Platinum I had before. Thanks to all for your information
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11. February 2006 @ 14:42 |
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@vonschr
One thing to remember with Xcopy you cannot control burn speed, so if you are having problems with less than good media burned at a higher speed, using Xcopy will only cause more problems.
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aabbccdd
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11. February 2006 @ 14:58 |
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clonedvd 2 with AnyDVD is your best bet MUCH better than the defunked dvd x copy ,and also you might consider better media ,hate to break it to you but memorex and or imation is the worst media one can buy use Taiyo Yuden and or Verbatim you be a MUCH happier camper
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brobear
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11. February 2006 @ 19:03 |
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Well lets say some of those anyway. CMC manufactures DVDs sold under both the Imation and Memorex brand. I'm not sure what the current sales picture is for Imation, but much of the +R was made by Ricoh which is made in Taiwan. Ricoh is the good stuff. There was an Indian company making some of it, but that would carry a made in India tag. Much of Imations's -R was manufactured by CMC which manufactures much of the media sold by Memorex. I've got a large number of backups on Memorex-Ricoh and they're good quality. Too bad Memorex doesn't sell those any more.
As for DVDXCopy, there's a number of workarounds for the app. If burn speed is a problem, a person can burn the output file with a burner app that has a speed control instead of letting XCopy burn and erase the file. If XCopy is starting to be a real pain though, I'd suggest moving on; little support left and the app did have more problems than most.
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brobear
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11. February 2006 @ 19:07 |
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@vonschr
Would you run DVD Identifier (freeware) and tell us what the manufacturer info on the Imation +R is?
By the way, AnyDVD is a keeper, but you may want to shop around before settling on CloneDVD2. A favorite of mine for transcoders is DVDCopy 4 from InterVideo. http://www.InterVideo.com/ Another good one is Recode2 in the Nero burning suite, Nero 6 or Nero 7. Both Nero and InterVideo have full function trials you can use for a road test and the DVDs you back up won't have logos on the screen like some trials. Nero has unlimited trial downloads, but requires the occasional reload. The program I use all the time is for high quality backups and takes a bit more time per job. I use Rebuilder with Cinema Craft Encoder (RB/CCE). Rebuilder has other supported encoders such as the free HC which does a good job, just a bit slower than CCE. You can actually try that one out for free and there is an installer, so setup is easy. http://www.dvd-rb.com
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vonschr
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12. February 2006 @ 08:42 |
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brobear
The Imation is made by Ricoh
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brobear
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12. February 2006 @ 09:17 |
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Nothing to worry about on that one. As I said, the Ricoh is good "stuff". I've had excellent success with Ricoh media. I've burned a lot of media and I've used more Ricoh under various brands than any of the other media I've used.
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dragnmajk
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15. February 2006 @ 15:53 |
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Hey all, I have hit a snag. I am thinking it is another bad disc, as was the forgotten. I have tried dvdd, dvdfab, CloneDVD, Nero recode, and vobblanker, all with AnyDVD in the background. None of them work. The movie is lords of dogtown. It would've worked with at LEAST one of these methods, correct? (btw, not to get off subject brobear, but is your quote from the comic Grendel, or the movie baowolf with C. Lambert?)
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brobear
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15. February 2006 @ 17:21 |
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Actually Beowulf was an old Anglo-Saxon story. The early manuscripts are in Old English. There have been retellings of the Beowulf saga and the quote by Grendel is from one told from the perspective of Grendel. The characters have been around much longer than comic books and movies.
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15. February 2006 @ 17:25 |
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John Gardner?
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dragnmajk
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15. February 2006 @ 17:42 |
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Well, yea. My husband is big into literature, old and new. I am not familiar with the old writing or what have you, but I have heard him talk about it, mainly while we watched the movie and some of his comics, which apparently are in no way related, if I understand correctly. We have a grendel mask on the wall and a couple of grendel shot glasses in on the entertainment center from the comic. I don't have the fixvts program, will that help with the problems I am having with lords of dogtown do you think?
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brobear
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15. February 2006 @ 17:57 |
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Arniebear
I think if may be. But it's been a while and I"m not sure. It is definitely the Grendel from Beowulf.
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dragnmajk
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15. February 2006 @ 18:04 |
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lol It's obvious I know just enough about it to get me in trouble, I didn't even spell it right.
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brobear
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15. February 2006 @ 18:06 |
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dragnmajk
The FixVTS is for repairing compliance problems. When do you run into your problem, during the rip, when encoding, or the software won't record?
AnyDVD just came out with version 5.9.1.1. Here's the settings for use with DVD Decrypter: To use DVDDecrypter with AnyDVD set I/O Model to SPTI or ElbyCDIO.
Set CSS Cracking method to none. Disable checking for structure
protection.
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dragnmajk
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15. February 2006 @ 18:17 |
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It messed up during the encoding when I used CloneDVD with AnyDVD in the background. In Nero and Shrink it messed up during the analyzing. I tried using pgcedit with the psl2 plug in with decrypter and followed it up with vobblanker, and I tried using fab decrypter. Fab decrypter just kind of gets stuck. It messed up at 47% during the analyzing in shrink and Nero, same exact spot in the same scene if you have on the preview, which I only did to see if that was the case, I normally don't have the preview on. I am not familiar with fixvts and didn't know if it have any better results than what I had already tried. I've seen it a couple of times in the forums, and I see it as an option in pgcedit listed with vobblanker. I thought it may be a bad press, but haven't seen any cases of bad presses with this movie. I was about ready to chalk it up to scratches on the disc, I've cleaned it good, yet still nada.
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brobear
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15. February 2006 @ 18:23 |
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Are you using the newly released version of AnyDVD 5.9.1.1? If not, try using it with DVD Decrypter with the settings I just posted. I'm curious to see if you can get a rip of the DVD.
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dragnmajk
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15. February 2006 @ 22:25 |
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Yea, I got the newest version of AnyDVD. I adjusted the settings to what you said and I got to 44% then I got an I/O error. Maybe it IS the disc? Seems strange it always loses it at 40 some %.
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aabbccdd
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15. February 2006 @ 22:31 |
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yeah you might try a different dvd ,the way i did Lords Of Dogtown was with clonedvd 2 and anydvd keeping the main menu ,theres blanks cells atthe beginning of the movie that throws most programs for a loop. another program that works for hard to read/scratched/bad disc is Intervideo DVDCopy 4 theres a free trial if you want to download and try it you will still need anydvd with the program
http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/InterVideoDVDCopy_Profile.jsp
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brobear
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16. February 2006 @ 02:08 |
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aabbccdd
LOL, you're starting to sound like me. DVDCopy4 is a fine transcoder, if that's what a person wants to use. That's my favorite, but for most things I use an encoder setup, RB/CCE.
Normally , AnyDVD will get a complete rip with DVD Decrypter though it may not be totally compliant. That's why the new version of AnyDVD, to help with compliance due to the bad sectors, among other things. I'm not sure of all that was addressed with 5.9.1.1.
dragnmajk
If the disc is suspect, which it is now, try doing a read scan such as the one in the freeware DVDInfopro or Nero's utilities. On the graph see if there are bad sectors that correspond to where the disc stops processing. Stopping at the same spot each time indicates a physical flaw. A bad press will sometimes play, but not record. Players are usually much more forgiving than recorders. As aabbccdd mentioned, trying another DVD of the same movie might make a difference. Do a read scan on it as well. If a flaw, I doubt just one occurred. I once had to go threw 3 or 4 discs of one movie before I could get it to record. A rare occurrence, but it happens.
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dragnmajk
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17. February 2006 @ 07:45 |
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Yuppers, CloneDVD and AnyDVD worked on a different disc. Thanks for the help AGAIN.
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