DVD Shrink- Deep Analysis

[Darth Paris]

Here is the deal. I have just bought the box sets of Babylon 5 season 4 and 5. I won't have time to watch all of them with in the next month. The problem is that these things are expensive, and I have had box sets in the past with bad disks(Including season 1 of B5 and Farscape). Anyways does deep analysis on DVD shrink check all the frames? If so this would find any errors, right?

[guns1inger]

Yes and No. If you are concerned about the quality, use DVD Decrypter to rip. It is faster (generally) than Shrink, is better equiped to handle the newer copy protection, and is much more tolerent of small errors on the disk. Deep analysis is used for determining the best way to transcode the disk to make it smaller for backup.

[skebenin]

A DVDDecrypter rip will tell you if there are unreadable sectors, so it's a reasonable way to test disks, but not the best way. If there's a sector that requires several tries to read, it'll pass the rip test, but still might produce problems on playback.

IMO, best bet is to do a transfer rate test. I typically use Nero CD/DVDSpeed (it's free), but there are other tools. If you're really paranoid, you can do a surface scan *and* a transfer rate test. Each test takes 8-18 minutes (sometimes longer), depending on drive speed and the amount of data on the disk.

[Darth Paris]

Thanks, and over $160 I am paranoind!