ST Enterprise, Copied Material Won't Play Properly, But Original DVD Will

[Hectic]

I'm making a copy of Star Trek Enterprise: Season 2 Disc 7, the one that has that season's special features. I'm using "Customize" mode and when I select the disc's episodes, they seem to play fine in the preview screen, however when I select the special features (behind-the-scenes, outtakes, etc.) they become heavily scrambled, pixelated and the sound skips. I figured this might just be the preview screen not working properly because the original DVD plays the special features just fine. However, after making the copy and playing it, the special features play just as they showed in the preview screen; scrambled and pixelated. I know it's not the DVD (as I stated, everything plays just fine), but for some reason it appears that DVDFab is unable to read/copy the special features properly on this particular disc. It can read the episodes, but not the SF's?! (I want to say I had the same problem with one other TV series disc and its special features and I was able to get around that somehow, but I don't remember exactly what I did.)

I tried making a decrypted image of the disc using Passkey (now that it's working again) and Imgburn and then opened that up in DVDFab, but I still got the same problem. I tried changing the Pathplayer settings, but that didn't work either. HELP!

[AGJ]

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[signals]

Try setting PathPlayer to take a deeper scan of the DVD. Set the top slider to 480 seconds and the bottom slider to 5 or 10.

[Hectic]

Well, there were no error messages or anything, if there were I would have posted them. After I posted this thread I remembered what I did to combat this the last time this happened, and was actually pretty simple...I USED MY OTHER DRIVE TO READ THE DISC!

I have 2 optical drives. One I use to read and the other to write. The one I use to read is a BR-ROM, an ASUS BC-06B1ST. My burning drive is just a DVD-RW, a Samsung (shows as TSST corp) SH-S203N. The BD-ROM reads faster than my other drive for DVD's which is why I just use it for everything. I guess this is just one of those very unique, unknown situations where that drive and DVDFab didn't want to work right together. When I had the Enterprise disc in the BD drive, it would read it no problem in WMP and show the special features just fine, but when it came to reading them properly in DVDFab, it didn't. I believe this and (maybe) one other disc are the only ones this has happened with. Every other disc I've but in there to read has been read flawlessly. For some reason, switching to the other drive to read (as well as write) allowed DVDFab to read all the disc properly and copy properly.

I'll try signals suggestion if this happens again...or just use my other drive to read!