SkyLiner
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Hello, it's been some time since I've used CloneDVD and AnyDVD, but in the past I have had good experience with them. Last night I downloaded the 21 day trial versions of both of these applications and I tried backing up a DVD. I have 2 DVD burners and always use one as the reader and the other as the writer and I chose "DVD writer" as the "Output method" when doing backups. The "Creating DVD files" part went fine and made it to 100% with no problem, but the "Writing" part didn't make it to the end, instead it gave an error that said "read error" and "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)." Using VLC I tried playing the files (the temporary files) that were created...and they played fine, but only till a certain point...about 2 thirds of the way to the end of the movie the files just stop playing (which is around where the writing process gives the error message).
Since my DVD burners are a bit old I thought maybe the one I was using as the reader was having an issue creating good clean files, so I swapped them and made the reader the writer, but I got the same error at the exact same point of the writing process, so I ruled that out. Then just out of curiosity I did another run, this time choosing "DVD files" as the "Output method" so I could see if VLC would play the movie till the end. This went fine and created the Video/Audio files all the way to 100%...and VLC played them to the end of the movie with no problem. So, it seems as if something is hindering either AnyDVD or CloneDVD from creating those temporary files properly, when doing a copy to disc.
Does any of this ring a bell? Hope I explained it properly and that someone might be able to help identify my problem so I can fix it. I went ahead and bought 2 new DVD burners today, but they'll probably take another week to get here in the mail.
Thank you
Since my DVD burners are a bit old I thought maybe the one I was using as the reader was having an issue creating good clean files, so I swapped them and made the reader the writer, but I got the same error at the exact same point of the writing process, so I ruled that out. Then just out of curiosity I did another run, this time choosing "DVD files" as the "Output method" so I could see if VLC would play the movie till the end. This went fine and created the Video/Audio files all the way to 100%...and VLC played them to the end of the movie with no problem. So, it seems as if something is hindering either AnyDVD or CloneDVD from creating those temporary files properly, when doing a copy to disc.
Does any of this ring a bell? Hope I explained it properly and that someone might be able to help identify my problem so I can fix it. I went ahead and bought 2 new DVD burners today, but they'll probably take another week to get here in the mail.
Thank you