Help! Having problems getting a clean ISO Rip!

[nmiller0113]

I have been ripping DVD's for a little over a month now. I have a great new Plextor Drive that rips at about 10x - 13x. I rip everything to ISO. I was wondering if I need to setup some extensive error correction because every now and then I get a rip of a DVD (Whether it is new or old, good or bad condition, there is no pattern to it) that shows flaws in the video during playback. If I see it on one of my ISO's it will playback the same way every time. So it is obviously something that happened during the RIP. I am running DVD Decrypter with default settings and for the most part even the movies that have the flaws only have it 3 - 4 time throughout the movie, otherwise things are great. This is just beginning to annoy me now. Please help...I can't find any reason this would happen. By the way...the PC is a dedicated Windows XP machine, 3Ghz, 1GB Ram, 120GB SATA Drive. Built exclusively to rip DVD's. The machine seems to run GREAT! Thanks!

[setarip_old]

Do these glitches show up when playing from your hard drive or only from burned media? If burned media, do these problems appear when playing the burned DVD ONLY on a specific player and/or your PC?

1) When ripping and/or burning, make sure you've turned off all unnecessary programs (background and foreground, including Internet-related)

2) Burn at 2X or 4X

3) Make sure DMA is turned on for all drives

4) If the problem persists, try a different brand/quality of burnable media. To determine the capabilities/limitations of your DVD burner, as well as media compatibility, go to:

www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdwriters

(If necessary, open the Device Manager in the Control Panel to determine the make and model number)


To determine the capabilities/limitations of your specific brand and model of standalone DVD player, as well as media compatibility, go to:

www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers

[nmiller0113]

I actually am playing this from an ISO on my hard drive. I'm not burning anything. I've actually tried playing the ISO with the 3 - 4 video flaws on multiple machines all with the same exact result which leads me to believe that it is happening in the process of being ripped. So my thoughts are that I could have an incorrect setting somewhere in DVD Decrypter, or perhaps there is a setting that will assist it in making cleaner rips.

[powerslave]

nmiller0113 : And your sure it's not in the source dvd that you ripped? I've never heard of ripping introducing video flaws at all. What exactly are the flaws you describe?

[nmiller0113]

I'm not sure, but the DVD plays fine directly off of the DVD and it isn't until I rip it to ISO and play it that I see any video flaws. It is hard to describe...it is as though a small random section of screen becomes different color blocks for a second. The sound is not affected. If I rewind it, it happens again at the same exact moment and in the same exact part of the screen. Now it doesn't always happen in that part of the screen when it happens at different scene it is just consistent within that scene that it happened if you rewind it. I hope that makes sense! I am using a Plextor 716A DVD Writer drive in SpeedRead mode in DVD Decrypter (It is a default setting). Could that be a problem? If I don't use it in that mode I only get about 3x reads and it takes almost 30 mins to RIP a DVD. I believe that it doesn't happen when I do it in that mode...it is just so slow. I have to test it a bit more to confirm.

[setarip_old]

@nmiller0113

Have you done, as I previously suggested?:

1) When ripping and/or burning, make sure you've turned off all unnecessary programs (background and foreground, including Internet-related)

2) Make sure DMA is turned on for all drives

I get a rip of a DVD (Whether it is new or old, good or bad condition, there is no pattern to it) that shows flaws in the video during playback.

So this is definitely NOT only one .ISO image you're talking about, right?

How did you play the .ISO image file on multiple machines (if you're "not burning anything")?

[theReal]

Have you tried burning one of the flawed ISO images (preferrably 4x on a high quality disc) to see if the flaws are still on the burned disc? Maybe there's something wrong with the iso-reading process. It's improbable and I can't imagine what would cause such an ISO read error, but I'd try it anyways just to be sure.