Copying DVDs?

[XTC]

What's the best program for copying DVD's? Especially protected ones. You know for making "backup" copies ?

[riffer]

DVD Shrink & Nero.

pm me for further details, if you're interested.

[Wasp]

Ripping to the computer is possible but most "commercial" dvds (movies etc...) are 8 gbs in size and ive only ever seen 4gb burnable dvds for sale. see the delimma?

[Lias]

I second that, and also add DVD-Decrypter in for those (few) discs that DVD-Shrink cant deal with the protection / read errors.

[flash]

i think its called foxdvd or clone dvd? (seacrh google, and download.com), its from the guys that made clone cd

clone cd was the best program i ever used, it never failed to copy anything (on cd), so the dvd program should be no different.

[flash]

Ripping to the computer is possible but most "commercial" dvds (movies etc...) are 8 gbs in size and ive only ever seen 4gb burnable dvds for sale. see the delimma?

you can get double layer dvds now that hold over 8 gigabytes

[Lias]

Ripping to the computer is possible but most "commercial" dvds (movies etc...) are 8 gbs in size and ive only ever seen 4gb burnable dvds for sale. see the delimma?

You can buy blank dual layer DVD's now which are 9gb, but the beauty of the DVD-Shrink is that it recodes the movie (takes several hours, even on a fairly modern PC) to fit on a standard single layer blank. Most of the time the quality difference is negligable.. You can also remove all the extras and crap as well if you need too to improve the rip quality.

[SimJen]

Yep like he said......
Some good info sites:

http://www.doom9.org
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/index.php

Good luck with your illegal copying

[flash]

Good luck with your illegal copying

no, hes backing up dvds, totaly legal........

[riffer]

Good luck finding DVD Shrink now.

It's creater was hired by Nero to work on the latest Nero software.

The code from DVD Shrink was used to create Nero Recode, which will not copy copyrighted DVDs.

DVD Decripter is very good too, but only extracts the data off the DVD. You can, of course use DVDShrink or Nero Recode to recode the data to a smaller DVD once it's on your hard drive.

Another handy program is DVD43 (dvd for free), which is a behind the scenes application which decripts the DVD on the fly.

Another great DVD Back-uper is 123 Studio's DVDXCopy Platinum, another which met its demise at the hands of corporate lawyers. However, it can be found ... if you know where to look, or who to ask...

[SimJen]

I was reading somewhere that people don't actually have a right to make backups that it was a phalacy (sp) spread by the internet.
Who cares anyway

[flash]

i think your allowed one copy, if you have the orriginal

[ZeroIndex]

CloneDVD is the best for making 1:1 backup copies of DVD-Movies... it shrinks the movie to fit a blank DVD-R perfectly, leaving subtitles menues etc intact.

[zeRax]

took me an hour and 20 mins to convert at low priority from 8gb down to 4.3gb or whatever, but what i do is rip the dvd to an iso using dvd decryptor and then mount it with daemon tools and use dvd shrink on the mounted image/drive, think it works out to be alot faster ^_^

[cowboyz]

You can buy blank dual layer DVD's now which are 9gb, but the beauty of the DVD-Shrink is that it recodes the movie (takes several hours, even on a fairly modern PC) to fit on a standard single layer blank. Most of the time the quality difference is negligable.. You can also remove all the extras and crap as well if you need too to improve the rip quality.

My machine is ageing now. (XP2100+ 768Meg RAM) and I can reencode a DVD from 8gig to 4 in 30 mins. Not hours. Most DVDs are not 8gig though and most take about 10-15mins to reencode and then 15 mins to burn.

you can get dvd shrink 3 here.

It is pretty self explanatory. (is that a word??)