Ok, here is the deal. I have been doing this for a while so I can usually figure out what is going on when I run into problems. This one has me stumped so I thought I would see if anyone has been having the same problems. Lately, any dvd whether new or old that I try to back up, will only play through to about halfway through the movie then freezes. If I exit out back to the main menu and try to skip to a certain chapter, it will freeze if I skip to any chapter past the point that the movie froze. I figure it must have something to do with the layers not burning right but I am using many different methods. I have tried: 1) Anydvd in background and ripping and burning with clonedvd 2) Ripping and burning with dvdfab 3) Ripping with dvd fab, shrinking with dvdshrink and burning with ISOburner. Each way yields the same results. The only thing I can think that I have done that would affect this is when I attempted to backup Alice in Wonderland I ended up upgrading to the newest Anydvd and downloading the new dvdfab. That was the first time in a long time that I backed up a dvd using an ISO image. It worked fine. But for some reason, Shutter Island gave me this problem. After I tried it many different ways with the same result I put in an old movie and tried it and still have the same. I am running windows 7 and appreciate any advice.
I assume you are burning DL disks? General consensus seems to be to burn Verbatim DVD+R DL disks with ImgBurn.
Actually no, I am shrinking to fit a regular disk. I realize Verbatim is heralded as being the best but the Memorex I am using now has done fine until now.
"Any DVD whether new or old that I try to back up, will only play through to about halfway." The way that sentence is written, it indicates that your player can only play DVDs halfway through; and that would indicate a layer break problem with DL discs. (The layer break occurs at exactly the mid-point of all stored data according to the specifications.) However, you probably mean that all recorded DVDs of any disc you try to back up play only halfway after they have been recorded. Is the same true of older recordings? Are these ink-jet printable discs? You have to determine whether or not the problem lies with the DVD player, the recording drive, the discs to be recorded, or the combination of new DVD recording software. (Having multiple versions of different software designed to do the same thing on a single system invites problems.)
