I recently got into backing up my DVD collection. After reading up on the process, I lined up the essential tools: Mac The Ripper, DVD2oneX and a burning app. However, my sense of value was offended by the near-$100 price on Toast 6, so I bought Dragon Burn. There were several positive comments here, I was just looking for basic DVD burning, and it was half the price of Toast.
BIG mistake.
Long story short, there appears to be some kind of bug in Dragon Burn that makes long DVD burns unreliable. The burned discs will start up fine on all my different DVD players and Macs, and will appear to be perfect for the first half hour or so. After that, you start seeing random brief instants of picture break-up (macroblocking) or quick little freezes. If you go back and burn a second disc from the same VIDEO_TS file, you'll see the same problem, but NOT at the same places in the movie. It all seems to be just random. To further make you crazy, a few files will burn perfectly without the dropouts.
The video files I was burning from were definitely OK. They played without any problems in DVD Player, and if I made a disc image from them and then burned that using Disc Utility, the disc came out fine.
When last week's half-price promo came along on Toast 6, I bought it and confirmed that all these files will burn a perfect disc using Toast. So Dragon Burn is headed for the trash.
I'm curious if anyone else has encountered this problem and/or if it's maybe somehow specific to my configuration (1.8 dual G5 with a Pioneer 108/"117" drive running 10.3.7)
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