The disk works fine in a standalone DVD player (two of them, actually).
Utterly meaningless
Simply because a disc plays fine doesn't mean it's not faulty
Also, I have just discovered that I can copy the disk to my hard drive using DVD Decrypter with AnyDVD running. - no errors.
Decrypter is sometimes useful for skipping past read errors or brute force ripping. Unfortunately the rip is not perfect then. Either some a few cells will be skipped (in which case you will not notice)--or in worse cases, large portions of the film will be missing.
More importantly Decrypter is especially not useful for ripping with Anydvd when a disc is heavily protected. In that case, the rip will not be completely unprotected (and in some cases the rip won't play properly).
CloneDVD2, however, can't copy the disk.
You, in all likelyhood have a bad original disc that needs to be exchanged.
1. a)Click the red fox icon on your toolbar.
b) Navigate to "Program Settings".
c) Click "enable logging".
d) Click "ok".
e) Put the problematic disc in your optical drive/reader.
f) Go to your My Documents folder
g) You will see a zip file called "Anydvd_Info_titleofmydisc.zip"
h) When replying or posting in the Slysoft forums, look for the icon that looks like
i) if you don't see that icon, click the "go advanced" button. You should see that icon now. Click the paperclip.
j) a small pop-up screen should appear (if it doesn't please ensure your browser is enabled to allow pop-ups from the Slysoft forums)
k) click the "Browse" button, and locate and select the .zip file you created.
l) click "upload"
2. Download
Nero cd-dvd speed. It's a free program. With Anydvd running in the background, select the tab labeled "scandisc". Select the appropriate drive letter, and click "start". If Nero cd-dvd speed reports read errors, your disc is (probably) bad and needs to be exchanged--even if it plays fine (or your optical drive could be slowly dying).
3. Do not post in other people's threads unless you are attempting to help the original poster, please. click
http://forum.slysoft.com/announcement.php?f=18 and read fully