[X4U] Making a DVD copy-CSS protection

[Stroller]

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.