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Hi dave,
Hope this might help.
I use XPress (in the XPlatinum version), have for a long time. Found out that with Xpress, if you select the option for the "Entire Disc" it will sometimes fail or give bad results. Have to use either Platinum "Advanced" or XCopy over a two disc split for the whole thing.
Seems that the Xpress was never really intended to do a whole disc, appears there is a limit to the amount of compression it can handle, if too much data it just won't work, on smaller movies without a lot of extras it will work OK, but say a 2.5 hour long movie with a lot of extras, forget it. Magic number seems to be data size over 6.5 to 6.7 GB on the original disc and XPress will not do the whole disc very well. Have to stick with just the movie and subtitles. You'll get a better quality picture anyway that way, less compression. I have used the "Advanced" mode many times for episodic discs and never had a problem with that.
That said, the next bit is MOST important...
Check your blank media, I use Ritek GO4 standard, have not had any probs with this. Also make sure the media is speed rated for the speed of your drive. Tip, I have had some that were rated at 4X but when burned at 4X come out looking really bad with a lot of skips, when I slow the burn to 2X they look OK.... go figure. Many problems can be from using the wrong media or burning it too fast, not the software.
I use DVD43 with my Xpress and it works fine. I have read in here where some people have issues with AnyDVD.
Again, if the results you say are just "bad" looking final product, it is probably the media, or burning too fast for the media, or media is not compatible for your drive. Or you burned to a +R when you should use a -R disc or vise versa. You have to determine what media works best or is needed for your drive.
Since you didn't mention any error messages I assume it is just a bad finished product.
Good luck.
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