Hi i wonder if anyone can help me work out what is not quite right with my setup - i wld be very gratefull;

I have tried creating back-ups using Anydvd & Clonedvd (both latest versions) and Preserving the menu. I have also tried using DVDCopy Express 3.02.

the movies encode & burn fine, but when i play them in both my Xbox and Scan DVD player they whirr up for a while/skip a little/ at the very beginning of the movie.. sometimes they crash with 'disk error' on the DVD player but my Xbox is more patient - eventually they play through OK.

I have a Pioneer CDRW and a standard DVD drive that I am reading from.
I am using DVD-R disks (Tried with +R and they wldnt read in any drive)

What do you guys recon??? is it the media? the drive?
I have tried all the settings on AnyDVD (safe mode, just selecting the 'reader') to no avail.

Look forward to a reply!

J