[X4U] Making a DVD copy-CSS protection

[Crandon David]

They don't make Dual Layer rewritable DVD media though do they?

Dave


On Feb 9, 2008, at 2:10 AM, Stroller wrote:

>
> On 9 Feb 2008, at 01:03, Crandon David wrote:
>> ...
>> I used MacTheRipper and it came out fine. I then tried Toast 6 to  
>> make a copy using the DATA tab, and chose DVD-ROM (UDF). It burned  
>> OK, but verification said it had a bad sector, and sure enough  
>> about halfway through it froze. This happened twice more, once  
>> with Toast 7.
>
> On 9 Feb 2008, at 01:12, Crandon David wrote:
>> Update...the disc made with Fast DVD Copy lost audio and then  
>> froze a little while later...
>
>
> If the failures are happening halfway through a 9gig DVD then the  
> problem is at the layer change.
>
> I also had this recently, with a 2.5 year old Pioneer drive which  
> has never burned dual-layer disks well. I had always wrote it off  
> to "dodgy media" in the past - sometimes the disks would play fine  
> in the same drive but not in others - but the other week I happened  
> to have a new dvd-writer handy, purchased for a customer for  
> installation the next day. When I tried writing with that it worked  
> perfectly.
>
> I'm really annoyed about this Pioneer, because in the past I had  
> found dual-layer disks too expensive to experiment with thoroughly  
> (about $2 or $2.50 a disk here). The new disks were £10 for a  
> spindle of 25 (about 80¢ per disk), were positively reviewed on the  
> "customer comments" section of SVP's website, and I really needed  
> to get to the bottom of this. The Pioneer misbehaved in its  
> external case connected to my Macs, by USB to my MacBook running XP  
> and connected via EIDE in another Windows PC, but the new drive  
> burned the disk perfectly first time. Now the Pioneer is well  
> beyond warranty and aside from its own value has also cost me  
> nearly £20 in coasters!! I'm planning on writing a whinge to  
> Pioneer, I'm so miffed about it.
>
> Stroller.
>
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