Problems copying "Princess Mononoke"

[Dnd4evr]

This is a Mirimax/Studio Gibili movie. This is a tough DVD to get and my player is very sensitive to smudges and scratches so I need to make a backup.

I ripped the DVD to my hard drive using DVDDecrypter. I use IC8 and Deselected everything but the main movie and the menu. I even turned off alternate languages and subtitles. I compress the menu to the smallest possible and increase the main movie file size to the limit and burned to a -RW. The process finished fine and at first it looked like there wasn't a problem, but about 3 minutes into the movie PowerDVD pauses and reports that the disk might be damaged. The original files on my HD run just fine.

I did see a potentially damaging scratch on the DVD so I polished it out and tried again. The same error occured in the same place. I put a different movie on the same -RW disk and it worked fine (???).

I burned the movie again to .pdi files and mounted them in the virtual drive. This also caused the same error in the same place (so the DVD-RW isn't bad). I retried again, but this time I left in titles 1,2,5 and it still failed (3 is a featurette and 4 is a trailer). I am now trying to just burn a full copy of everything including alternate languages, subtitles and DVD-ROM content. If this fails I will try something like CloneDVD. Has anybody heard of a problem like this before and do you have any suggestions.

 

[Dnd4evr]

There is something realy wrong here. Not only does IC8 make bad copies of this movie, CloneDVD generates an error when you start. I guess I will have to see if I can split the movie or something. Has anyone else run into this kind of problem before?

 

[The-poacher]

Try decrypter
DVD2One
Recordnow max

 

[Dnd4evr]

Thanks for the tip Poacher. DVD2one worked just fine. I tried correcting sectors and splitting the movie with DVDFab and it did a little better than IC (got by the spot that IC didn't handle), but the same error cropped up further in. I thought compressing the movie was causing the problem, but when the split version failed I was beginning to think I would never get it backedup.

This was the first DVD I noticed with multiangles. Is that what caused the problem? This was also the first DVD I wasn't able to copy with IC8 and I tried every setting from movie only to full DVD with no effect on the end results. I read a different thread (could have been on another forum) that DVDDecrypter doesn't work as well as smartripper on some DVD's. Have you heard this and is it true? I will have to see if I can find that thread again.