Having trouble copy DVDs made in Ulead.

dfontz · Post by **dfontz** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:59 pm

I'm using a Pioneer DVD duplicator to copy my movies. Does Ulead automatically copy protect to prevent this? If so, how can I fix this problem. It's not the duplicator because it successfully copied a DVD I made with Pinnacle Studio.
Thanks

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:12 pm

No, Ulead does not copy protect discs. If you have found a way to do it please let us know.

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:35 pm

Better give us more info.
I have several banks of duplicators, mostly based on Acard, mostly with pioneer burners.
I make my dvds with Workshop and copy them to my hearts content.

I also have no trouble with any dvd sent by any of my clients.

If a dvd has been made, the machine will just copy exactly what is there.

If the original dvd is faulty, then all copies will be faulty.

What make of duplicator is it?
How many drives?
What card is it based on?
What software did you use to make the dvd?
What settings did you use?
DOes this dvd play on a std dvd layer?
Does it play on a pc?
What settings did you use on the copier?
What was the problem that you had? Just saying it didn't copy doesn't give us much of a clue, you may be using the wrong sort of disc for your copier, made the wrong choice of copier settings etc etc etc

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:11 pm

Your original may have a defect... This could be caused by a bad blank, by burning at too-high of a speed*, or by a scratch. (I assume your DVD is not scratched.)

DVD players and DVD-player software can correct and "hide" some minor defects. If the player can't correct or hide the error, it will just skip-over it. You may notice a brief glitch in the image, or it may be too small to notice. These errors usually are detected by the operating system when you try to make a bit-for-bit copy.

The first thing to try is to drag the VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD to a temporary folder on your hard drive. If this fails, you've got a bad disc.

Nero offers a (FREE!!!) DVD test program called Nero CD-DVD Speed. It can tell you if the DVD is marginal, where the DVD reader has to re-try or slow-down to read the data.

* The common recommendation is to burn at 4X speed. If you push your burner to the limits, the "spots" that are burned onto the disc get "blurred" to some extent. This can result in a bad or flaky disc that plays in some players, but has trouble in others.

FYI - Copy protection requires an expensive license. If you (or the duplication house) has a license, you can put Macrovision (analog copy protection) on a burned DVD, but CSS (digital encryption) does not work on burned discs.

Ulead DVD Workshop can set the Macrovision and CSS "flags" on a DLT file to be sent to a duplication house, but it won't put the actual protection on a burned master.