Hello Signals.
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Newer schemes, generally referred to as "structure protection", work differently and are different from title to title, each with different decoding requirements for a proper read.
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Can you point me to some more information about "structure protection"?
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I have no idea why, nor why player type smarts could not be written into copying software. The idea that it can't is counterintuitive, but I'm sure there's a good reason.
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I'd like to learn what that is.
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This sounds more like a read error or bad spot on the original disc. Error handling has improved as the product has evolved. Is the original a DVDR (bluish) or DVD-ROM (silver)?
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Both discs are silver.
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Again sounds like a read error.
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I agree, but I don't think the errors are because of dirt or scratches. I think that they encoded into the DVD master. They are intentional errors that are part of the copy protection scheme. I'm an old timer, and they used to do similar things to floppy disks when software was distributed on them.
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I would upgrade to 3.0.8.0 and see how you have error handling set up in Common Settings-->Read. Select the "Ask/Retry/.." button and allow a larger number of retries in the "Retries" pulldown menu. Brief hiccups in the output are not typical copy protection symptoms.
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That's puzzling. When I backed up "When The Levees Broke..." it seemed to be doing a lot of retrying. I thought it was excessive. Judging from the program's progress bar and the LED on the DVD drive, the program spent nearly all of the 1 hour and 20 minutes required to process the disc in only a couple of spots. But "Retry times" was set to "1".
Something else is strange. "Ask retry/ignore/abort