LG GSA-4081B & Stranger than Fiction

[kbom]

AnyDVD 6.1.3.3 & 6.1.2.5 appear to go into a loop & are unable to read "Stranger than Fiction" when it is in my LG GSA-4081B (A106) drive, however, everything works fine in my LG GSA-H22N drive.

Any ideas why?

The following summaries are form my two drives:

Summary for drive E: (AnyDVD 6.1.3.3)
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B A106 020519041A3C493644
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)

Summary for drive N: (AnyDVD 6.1.3.3)
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H22N 1.01 06/09/21
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: Stranger Than Fiction
Media is CSS protected!
Video Standard: NTSC
Media is locked to region(s): 1!

RCE protection not found.
DVD structure appears to be correct.
Found & removed structural copy protection (Arccos, Puppetlock)!
Found & removed bogus title set!
Changed firstplay: Jump directly to TitleMenu!
Found & removed Autorun from Video DVD!
Found & removed 83 bad sector protections!
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 1!

 

[Webslinger]

I would just chalk it up to Sony releasing junk that doesn't follow standards.

Some of the newer Sony releases won't even play on Sony standalone dvd players, it seems:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showpost.php?p=1714873&postcount=30

and http://club.cdfreaks.com/showpost.php?p=1714881&postcount=31

and http://club.cdfreaks.com/showpost.php?p=1722681&postcount=33

Makes troubleshooting very difficult in general.