Disk Error Playback Problems

Hi,

I happened upon a link to one of the site's wonderfully helpful threads via Google yesterday. Thanks to Scuba Pete’s wonderfully helpful guides I successfully created my first backup of one of my smaller DVDs (I have loads to do as my 3 year old son scratches the originals so quickly, so backups seem the obvious answer) using DVDShrink & DVDDecrypter
well within the 1.5 hours suggested (thanks a million Scuba – you are a star!).

However, having done one DVD I ploughed on and have tried to do three others – all full size movies (Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and The Flintstones) only to find that although I am getting to a successful completion message – with that joyous little triumphant tune – if I load the backup DVD into a player I just get Disk error – and if I try and look at it on the laptop I wrote it on some of them I cant read the DVD but get a message saying its not blank on DVDDecrypter and on the one I have just done I can see two folders AUDIO_TS AND VIDEO_TS and when I play it on the DVD player I get the menu but when I select english I get 'Please check disc' message. I even tried putting the speed down to 1x on my latest attempt, set the target size to 4300 and made sure I had full analysis and the other option on that tab (forget the wording) turned on. And despite waiting a couple of hours for it to its stuff and getting my success message once again – I again find that the dvd is unreadable.

I have to admit I have only read up to page 4 of the thread so far, so apologies if anyone else has already covered these points – but can anyone shed any light on why I might be experiencing this problem? I am guessing it may be that I have cheap media – I am using Bulkpaq 4x Speed 4.7GB DVD+R DVDs which were not the cheapest on the site I ordered from – and were described as Grade A DVDs – but maybe they are not good enough? But if that is the case, then would the first, smaller DVD have copied so successfully? I have set the region to write to region 2 rather than be region free as I am not sure what the UK dvd players I have floating around my home would make of region free. Oh and my laptop is only just over a year old, running XP so the hard drive is NTFS already – is there any other reason a bigger DVD might cause problems when the smaller one didn’t?

Re the media – I have just been reading something on Scuba’s website about TDK armor DVDs and from searching for these on a UK site I found an article that says Tuffdisc are another good make for durable DVDs – does anyone know if this is true? Basically, I am looking at ordering DVDs from a site called http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk – if it is a quality issue on the ones I already have – if anyone has a few mins to spare to see if there are any good ones on there that they would recommend it would be much appreciated. I need DVD+Rs.

Another problem I have encountered on a couple of DVDs I have tried to copy is that I get to a certain point in the analysis and a I get some error message about a recursive loop? One of them was Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban. I retried this a few times last night and kept getting the same error as soon as I retried (as it helpfully tries to continue on from where it last got up to). The error message is 'DVD Shrink encountered an error and cannot continue. Failed to read file "D:\". Date error (cyclic redundancy check).'

Just looking through all the settings one last time and have notices something called ‘RCE Protection Region’ in DVD Decrypter Settings – which is set to 1 – do I need to change this to 2 or anything else?

If anyone can shed any light on these problems – especially the main one of the disks not being readable, I would be eternally grateful.

Many thanks in anticipation,
Lorraine