I backed up a Star Trek Voyager disk and when played it displayed a few momentary breakups which I thought was a media problem. I played the compressed directory from my HD and the defects were there. Was Recode causing these defects? I recompressed from the original files and the defects were there in the same places.
I then compressed the files with DVD2ONE and there were no defects.
It would appear that the compression program can create defects that at first seem like the media is bad.

FYI