CloneDVD quality

[rod60]

Yesterday I downloaded AnyDVD and CloneDVD and started to make copies of original movie DVDs that I owned. The quality of the copy has been so poor as to make the copies unwatchable. Poor audio and scrambled pictures. One movie was a DL disk compressed onto a single layer however one movie did not use any compression yet the quality was unwatchable. The burner is a new Lite-On.

Could this be a burner problem and not related to CloneDVD?

Regards, Rod60

 

[DetroitBaseball]

Yesterday I downloaded AnyDVD and CloneDVD and started to make copies of original movie DVDs that I owned. The quality of the copy has been so poor as to make the copies unwatchable. Poor audio and scrambled pictures. One movie was a DL disk compressed onto a single layer however one movie did not use any compression yet the quality was unwatchable. The burner is a new Lite-On.

Could this be a burner problem and not related to CloneDVD?

Regards, Rod60

A lot of variables to consider here. But if you use CloneDVD right, it will make good quality copies. It could be a burner problem, although doubtful. More likely to be the way you used CloneDVD. The amount of compression determines the quality.

 

[rod60]

One of the DVD's that copy very poorly is the following:

Summary for drive D: (AnyDVD 6.1.6.9)
LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1P KL05 2006/11/21 11:12
Drive (Hardware) Region: 4

Media is a DVD.
Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 1
Total size: 2027514 sectors (3959 MBytes)

Video DVD (or CD) label: AU_110043
Media is CSS protected!
Video Standard: PAL
Media is locked to region(s): 4!

RCE protection not found.
DVD structure appears to be correct.
Structural copy protection not found.
Autorun not found on Video DVD.
Bad sector protection not found.
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 4!

I would have thought that this would have cloned successfully to a DVD-R. However using DVDShrink or CloneDVD2 the quality is very poor.

Not having copied DVD's before I am not sure what quality to expect.

Regards Rod60

 

[zebadee]

Hi
When using AnyDVD & CloneDVD2 you don't need a third party s/w to compress. (N.B. The info in your post [Total size: 2027514 sectors (3959 MBytes)]
means no compressing required. Therefore shrink not needed anyway.)
To find out whether the drive or CloneDVD2 is the problem.
1st Update your f/w. KLON is the latest (See attached).
I use this drive & have no such problems.



As for the s/w.
AnyDVD just runs in the background, so leave that alone.
Then use CloneDVD2 to rip, compress & then write.
See how this performs.

P.S. You might find taking a look here useful.

 

[DetroitBaseball]

One of the DVD's that copy very poorly is the following:

Summary for drive D: (AnyDVD 6.1.6.9)
LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1P KL05 2006/11/21 11:12
Drive (Hardware) Region: 4

Media is a DVD.
Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 1
Total size: 2027514 sectors (3959 MBytes)

Video DVD (or CD) label: AU_110043
Media is CSS protected!
Video Standard: PAL
Media is locked to region(s): 4!

RCE protection not found.
DVD structure appears to be correct.
Structural copy protection not found.
Autorun not found on Video DVD.
Bad sector protection not found.
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 4!

I would have thought that this would have cloned successfully to a DVD-R. However using DVDShrink or CloneDVD2 the quality is very poor.

Not having copied DVD's before I am not sure what quality to expect.

Regards Rod60

That model was having a lot of problems with AnyDVD before. Get a firmware update. http://www.liteonit.com/DOWNLOADS/ODD/LH-20A1P/firmware/DR20KL0N.zip

 

[rod60]

Many thanks DetroitBaseball and Zebadee. It appears to have been a firmware issue, when I first went to the Lite-on site it showed KL05 as the most recent however the link from DetroitBaseball showed up KLON. So thank you both I have just recopied a DVD that previously gave me a poor quality and it looks fine.

I also downloaded Nero Speed. That looks like a useful utility.

Regards, Rod60

 

[DetroitBaseball]

Many thanks DetroitBaseball and Zebadee. It appears to have been a firmware issue, when I first went to the Lite-on site it showed KL05 as the most recent however the link from DetroitBaseball showed up KLON. So thank you both I have just recopied a DVD that previously gave me a poor quality and it looks fine.

I also downloaded Nero Speed. That looks like a useful utility.

Regards, Rod60

Also, grab the new versions just released by Slysoft.