Olli, Since I purchased the DVD I am zipping up the IFO's with anydvd turned off but where do I email them to?? NM, found addresses in another post & I sent them to support(AT)slysoft & Bugs emails. Hope that helps out.

FYI, I tried Anydvd 5221 with clonedvd2 and it did not work.

HITCH WAS A BITCH TO BACKUP! CRC ERRORS, BAD STRUCTURE, YOU NAME IT! THIS IS WHAT WORKED FOR ME: Run latest version of AnyDVD in the background. Tickle AnyDVD by watching the movie on your PC for a few seconds.Then use the latest version of Shrink DVD to rip files to HHD. From there, you can use any burning software (I used Nero) to back-up your owned-original. Any other configuration I tried failed. This is the only one that worked. DVD worked on multiple DVD players!


QUOTE=Funbobby101]Hey Guys,
RE: Hitch I initially did what I always do. Full backup with Clone DVD (Latest Version) with AnyDVD in background (Latest Version) and no joy at about 80%. Tryed to preview the CD with Clone DVD and everything would lock up. Tryed to view with Nero ShowTime; Nothing. Must be a bad press?
Went to DVDDecrypt with AnyDVD still on, and it recorded to HHD. Shrink wouldn't open it!
Recoded and burned DVDDecrypt files with CloneDVD. Unreadable coaster!!!!
Now I'm Mad.
Start authoring files. What a mess. Junk. Now I'm really Mad........And determined.

Erased all previous files and am back to the beginning.

Turned off AnyDVD. Tryed to view with Nero ShowTime. Hey, it works. Run through DVDDecrypt with AnyDVD turned off. Remember to highlite the last 6 Chapters that Decrypt doesn't seem to recognise. Record to HHD. Shrink reads it.....Yes!

All is right with the world.[/quote]

Thank you! And yes, zipping it was a good idea! Looks like a simple Arccos protection. Nothing special. (You copied it with AnyDVD/ CloneDVD without problems, no big surprise)
At least we know now, that the Widescreen version shouldn't cause any problems.

Arghhhh! Widescreen or Fullscreen version? Region? Country?

Actually - is IS the Widescreen, Region 1 version that is giving people issues (also noted on the CloneDVD forum).

Cheers,

Healey

According to the IFO files received from Slinger07, vts_10_2.vob is not protected. The only Arccos protected file is vts_01_1.vob.
I assume you have a different problem, not caused by AnyDVD or some copy protection.
Maybe the disc is badly produced and your reader is "on the edge", sometimes reading correctly, sometimes not.

Hi Olli,

I don't pretent to know the inner workings of AnyDVD or CloneDVD, but by the number of posts about problems with Hitch - maybe there is something else happening here?
Here's my quick & non-tech overview so far:
- baldbear posts his AnyDVD window contents - 5.2.2.1 shows three bad sectors & protection (which will copy Hitch), whereas 5.2.4.2 only shows two bad sectors, and won't copy Hitch - I duplicated this as well.
- only users that have upgraded CloneDVD to the newest version can successfully copy Hitch - does this mean that there are some shared .dll's or the like between the two programs that could explain this behaviour?
- this issue has been reported by seansyzfr1, baldbear, Funbobby101, tastycow, and of course myself - so, is it feasible that we all got copies of the same bad batch? (not likely)
- other users have thought it may have to do with the layer break, or invalid file size.

I don't believe it's my reader being on the "edge", due to all the above.

If it was - one simple question I would get ask you to answer - then why would nothing above 5.2.2.1 not work while this version does? And why does 5.2.2.1 detect 3 bad sectors, while more current only detect 2? This should give some indication that it has nothing to do with the drives / media involved.

It looks like there have been a number of code changes in AnyDVD between these two versions - for eg drive speed, etc - maybe something else changed?

Thanks for your help,

Healey

I noticed this myself, and I don't know exactly what's causing this. Maybe Slysoft can enlighten us.

No, I don't think so. In this thread there were multiple problems at once mentioned. Invalid Filesize error -yes, you need a newer CloneDVD, not older than half a year. Black preview screens - invalid CSS key extraction, another completely unrelated problem.

The problem is, that a lot of people reported something, but nothing really consistant. There were multiple issues, and you must notice that SEVERAL people have successful copied Hitch with new versions of AnyDVD & CloneDVD.
Maybe SlySoft has any further ideas, I certainly don't...

And, I believe I reported elsewhere that DVDDeCryptor 3540 (on its own - no AnyDVD running) identified 9 "suspect" areas, inserted dummy sectors as it saw fit, and backed up my friend's R1 Widescreen "Hitch" dvd with no problems. So if it is some new "copy protection" - it hasn't been applied very consistently - or Lightning UK make DVDDeCryptor more intelligent and longer lived than some folks would like to think.
Or something totally different is going on here . . . .

AnyDVD and DVD Decrypter use different methology. DVD Decrypter always reported a different number of suspect areas than AnyDVD.

I guess we will wait to hear from Slysoft - hopefully soon!

Does he monitor the forums? I haven't seen any interactions?

Cheers,

Healey

I also noticed the difference in the bad sectors from one version to the next but was,nt sure if it was the same versions of the movie or not until recently. I have been using A & C-DVD for quite sometime now and I think "The Grudge" gave me more problems then anything so far...that is..until the newer version of AnyDVD was released

Anyone else on here use Plextors?? Interested to see if anyone else was able to successfully copy Hitch using the latest versions.

I'll just add that I backed up Hitch (R1-WS) just like this with DVDD & Nero Recode and had no problems.

While this may not help AnyDVD, since the demise of DVDD I think AnyDVD is my best alternative and I like how it is supported and updated. Maybe some comparision can be done between DVDD 3540 and AnyDVD to get it running.
I like how AnyDVD is constantly update.

DVDD 3540 did not work on my R1 Wide disc, even using a multitude of drivers.

I wanted to see what all the fuss was about backing up Hitch, so I went and got a copy....using Anydvd 5.2.6.1 and Clonedvd 2.8.4.1, I had no problems whatsoever. I have a Lite-on combo LTC-4816H for my reader, and a NEC 3520A (w/firmware 1.UA from this site for bittsetting purposes) as my burner, using 8x + Fuji mij discs. Backed up the main movie w/menus in just over 16 minutes. Region 1 ws version

Is there a proper way to copy the Hitch DVD to my DVD server PC as a backup? I have successfully backed it up to DVD but I don't know how to simply copy it to a hard drive. When I drag and drop the VIDEO_TS folder, I get this error:

Cannot copy VTS_01_1: Data Error (cyclic redundancy check).

Am I copying it to the hard drive correctly?

BadB0y2K

Sorry, I figured it out. I needed to disable AnyDVD then re-enable it again and all is well. Dooh! Sorry about that!

BadB0y2K

Hello Guys,

I followed Healey's advice uninstalling the latest Slysoft AnyDVD version 5.2.6.1 after suffering the same failure - the first I have ever experienced since buying Any DVD - on the widescreen version of HITCH. The same thing for me after reinstalling 5.2.2.1 all went well on the widescreen backup of HITCH.

I am going to run 5.2.2.1 until I hit something it does not work with until there is a fix because my experience supports Healey's that something is glitched in the current version of AnyDVD with HITCH acting as a catalyst.

By the way my thanks to you Healey for your earlier post on your cure.

Also, to the folks at Slysoft; I am still a very happy Slysoft customer. Best $40 bucks I have spent on this type of DVD software - I also bought the original CloneCD from Olli and loved it as well - again money well spent to support pro software. Slysoft will figure this out if it needs to be done.

Healey - thanks again for the excellent post

Yes, he does. But he doesn't babble as much as I do.