Instant copy 8 problem?

[maestro5050]

First off I am new to burning DVD backups, only been doing it for about 3 days. Here's my problem:

I tried backing up three DVDs using Instant Copy 8. All three of them ripped fine and seemed to burn fine, i.e., no errors. When I tired to play each of them in my DVD player, they played fine for most the movie, but towards the end they get choppy and get little blocks on the screen. On the other hand they seem to play fine on my computer. I have a few DVDs that I have backed up using DVD Decrypter and burning with Nero 6.3.0.2 All of those play fine in my DVD player and computer. I reburned one of the movies using this method that flaked out with the IC8 burn and it seems to work fine.

I am using IC8 to rip, with AnyDVD running in the background. I rip the files to a PDI image on the hard drive and then burn the image with IC8 as well. The options I have selected are for movie only in HQ mode. The media I am using is Verbatim Data Life that IDs as a Ritek G03 -R disk. The media is not cheap and has worked with the other programs fine.

I have plenty of RAM and no proggies running in the background that aren't needed. The Windows XP install is brand new and up to date with patches and whatnot. All ASPI drivers are up to date as well. I guess my question is am I doing something wrong in IC8 or do you think it is an incompatibility with my Liteon 411S writer? The drive is using the latest firmware (not the one that was recalled last week.)

Thanks in advance for the help.

[angryinch]

I had a similar problem. Run the burned dvd's in dvdinfo pro and do a speed test...see what happens to the speed as it gets above 3BG. This is the best way to check your media once it's burned. If the read speed stays steady, then you have another problem, but if it spikes down then you know it's the media.

[maestro5050]

I ran a DVDinfo pro test on one of the DVDs (Ghostbusters.) The average read speed was 3.38x. There was a few small spikes right around the 2GB and 3GB marks, but in general it was a straight line progressivly getting faster (from about 2x to 4.77x) as it read farther into the disk. Nothing stood out as being wrong, but again I am new to this. I did the speed test on a different computer, not on the one with the DVD writer if that makes a difference.

I'm about to go stop by my folks house and am going to try the films in their standalone DVD players since I only have one at my house to try it in. My DVD player is an old Panasonic X410. I spent about $500 on it back in '99. It is so old that it still supported the old DIVX rental disks and had an internal modem to authorize each of those disks usage. I'm guessing that it may not like the way that IC8 wrote the disks, but I guess we will see. If that is the case, I guess I will just avoid IC8 for now and will try other methods.

Please let me know if you have any other ideas about the issue.

[saibalpatra]

I am having the same problem with CloneDVD. I am using MEMOREX 4X DVD+R and 4X Writer.

[Gurm]

It's the media. Check the media code and you'll discover that those Memorex 4x +R's are really CMC discs! Memorex couldn't meet demand recently.

I'll bet it's crap media - that's a symptom.

- Gurm

[maestro5050]

Well I tried the backups in an Apex AD-2600 and a Sony DVP-NS300. I didn't get to play too much, but from what I saw they worked. I guess my old school player doesn't like the way IC8 burns the disks.