Problems with "Capote"?

[noctrine]

Hi all,

Long time user of AnyDVD. It has never failed me, except for now. I thought I had a bad copy of the Capote DVD, so I returned it and got another--the "failed to read" errors began at the same sector!

AnyDVD 6.1.3.6 has "found & removed" for the following:

• CSS
• structural copy protection (Arccos, Puppetlock)
• invalid VOBUs
• 3 bad sector protections

Yet I'm still getting read errors in CloneCD. Is anyone else having problems with the Capote DVD? US version. I have a Plextor 716A drive, and, again, I've never run into a DVD I couldn't read.

Thank you,

[noctrine]

Here is what AnyDVD says for the disc:

Summary for drive D: (AnyDVD 6.1.3.6)
PLEXTOR DVDRPX-716A 1.10 07/20/0614:00
Drive (Hardware) Region: 1

Media is a DVD.
Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 2 (opposite)
Size of first Layer: 2084960 sectors (4072 MBytes)
Total size: 4169920 sectors (8144 MBytes)

Video DVD (or CD) label: CAPOTE
Media is CSS protected!
Video Standard: NTSC
Media is locked to region(s): 1 3 4!

RCE protection not found.
DVD structure appears to be correct.
Found & removed structural copy protection (Arccos, Puppetlock)!
Found & removed invalid VOBUs!
Autorun not found on Video DVD.
Found & removed 3 bad sector protections!
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 1!

And here is what CloneCD says:

I 6:35:12 PM CloneCD Version 5.3.0.1 started!
I 6:35:12 PM ElbyCDIO Driver 6.0.0.2
I 6:35:12 PM ElbyCDIO.dll 6.0.5.7
I 6:35:12 PM CCDDriver.dll 5.0.0.1
I 6:35:12 PM ElbyECC.dll 4.0.0.0
I 6:35:12 PM WriteDVD.dll 2.6.3.1
I 6:35:12 PM Registered to: [snip]
I 6:35:12 PM Searching for SCSI/ATAPI devices...
I 6:35:12 PM Device Scan found 1 CD-ROMs and 1 CD-Writers!
I 6:35:21 PM Starting copy from PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A to C:\CloneDVDTemp\IMAGE.dvd
W 6:42:50 PM Failed to read Sector 2755136
W 6:42:55 PM Failed to read Sector 2755168
W 6:43:04 PM Failed to read Sector 2755776

[snip]

W 6:54:17 PM Failed to read Sector 2756576
W 6:54:45 PM Failed to read Sector 2756608
W 6:55:13 PM Failed to read Sector 2756640
W 6:55:41 PM Failed to read Sector 2756672
W 6:55:41 PM User has cancelled operation!
I 6:55:41 PM Duration of operation: 00:20:19
I 6:55:41 PM Average Speed: 4522 kBytes/s (3.35)
E 6:55:47 PM Reading from PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A failed!

[mmdavis]

Generally, failed to read sectors means a bad disc. I have heard of people having to return 2-3 before they got a good one. They can come in bunches just like our blank media can.

[noctrine]

This is the 2nd disc, and I'll try a 3rd. I mainly wanted to see if anyone else was having trouble!

[Franchise]

I never did have a problem with the disc. I can't remember what AnyDVD said for it, but no problems here.

[noctrine]

Well, I'm giving up. Same problem with the third version of the disc.

[Webslinger]

Originally Posted by noctrine

Well, I'm giving up. Same problem with the third version of the disc.

You're probably running into a bunch of bad discs. However, you can send the .ifos into Slysoft for them to take a look at:

visit http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=330

[noctrine]

Mmk, we'll see. I sent the email off just now.

Thanks!

[Webslinger]

Originally Posted by noctrine

Mmk, we'll see. I sent the email off just now.

Thanks!

I noticed you canceled reading the discs. Have you ever just let Clonecd complete, and then check to see if the backups don't work?

[noctrine]

No, I never did let the read finish. I've had 2 other movies with errors:

First one: exchanged it, 2nd copy was fine
Second one: let the read finish (there were only a few bad sectors) and burned the backup. There was corruption/skipping on playback.

Since this one had many, many more read errors (and looked like it was going to take hours to read) I aborted, assuming the resulting backup would be useless.