Expendables 2 has new protections and was the reason I finally had to update my expired AnyDVDHD license (thanks Slysoft
). But after that, it worked fine. Did a full back up with no problems on playback playlist issues.
My symptom, before renewing the AnyDVDHD version, was that AnyDVD would just scan it forever (i.e AnyDVD would access the disk and then just go into an infinite loop with "scanning disk" progress bar, but the actual disk access would stop in the first few seconds).
Using the latest AnyDVD version from a few days ago, I didn't have any of the playlist problems mentioned by other posters regarding this title.
I'm in Region A, though not sure what the original disk is, but it's either Region A or Region free.
PS I thought I would comment on my experience with this title since it is a recently "fixed" title and a lot of threads. It worked fine for me with 7.1.1.2.
PPS: I also used BDRebuilder to do a full re-encode to 25GB with no playlist problems. ie a full backup with menus and extras (edit. the 'extras' on my version where trailers and I did blank them to save space, but still kept the full menu and book marking options with no problem).
I recently had a disk that had a couple of scrambled video streams that had to be blanked out using the hidden BDRebuilder edit mode, before BDRebuilder would work. BDRebuilder would crash when it tried to re-encode them. I'm not sure if it was this title, but could be a new way to frustrate full re-encodes. The streams were only a few 100 MBytes each and it's a pain to find them using BDRebuilder. You have to preview every stream to find the corrupted ones.
Also, if you happen to have even a few dozen corrupted frames in a backup copy, it can desynch the audio for the rest of the movie following the corrupted frames after re-encoding with BDRebuilder. I always check the audio synch from beginning to end after re-encoding before I burn to a BD-R.
I'm optimistic that Slyce will improve the whole re-authoring experience and look forward to it's release