I have a bunch of VCDs to copy, and I am looking for the procedure (software/settings/steps) that will produce copies of the best quality (minimal playback glitches on PCs & standalones). Source VCDs vary in terms of the origin and quality. I don't mind making images first and reading/writing at very low speed (even 1x, leaving computer alone in the process). But I do not want to spend much time manually checking every VCD - so I'm trying to automate it. Ideally:

- If a disk has sufficiently good physical condition, correct VCD structure and no problems in MPEG, the procedure produces an identical copy (with read/write speed, etc. set for best quality).

- If there are physical defects (scratches, etc.), the procedure recovers as much data as possible, and provides the optimal handling of cases where some data cannot be recovered (for example, if necessary, reduce read/write speed, reread problematic areas several times, perform binary compare, zero out some bits), with a log of errors that were fixed and those that were ignored.

- If there are problems with VCD structure or MPEG, the procedure fixes them (with a log), or at least reports so I can try to fix them manually.

Latest version of CloneCD, with making an image, and low read/write speeds looks like a good starting point. But which CloneCD settings should I use? I can use the "Game CD" profile, because it is suggested in the VCDEasy guide on burning images with a virtual drive. However, I suspect that the optimal settings for VCD copying are different from the default CloneCD profiles. The only thing I could find on this is 2 different profiles ("VCD.ccp" and "VCD & SVCD.ccp") on the site http://clone.cd but I wonder what other people think. (You may include the text of CCP file in the reply.)

Thanks.