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General Category => Software => Topic started by: Punman8 on July 17, 2003, 11:58:25 PM

Title: Burning DVDs
Post by: Punman8 on July 17, 2003, 11:58:25 PM

I just bought a dvd+r/+rw and want to burn copyrighted dvds. how can i do this?

Title: Burning DVDs
Post by: The_Flames on July 18, 2003, 01:48:51 PM

unfortuanaly most copyrighted DVD are dual layered  and Hold's 8GB's and consumer DVD writers can only burn 4GB's.


and BTW doing what you want would be breaking the law /wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\';)\' />

Title: Burning DVDs
Post by: Josetann on July 18, 2003, 03:16:34 PM

Dunno about breaking the law, the law seems very iffy.  You're allowed to make a backup for personal use, but how are you to make said copy?  Some speculate that making decss was illegal but using it is not, I don't know.

Basically yes you can backup a DVD.  You have to rip it to your hard drive first, then if it's over 4.7gig you need to cut the size down some.  DVDShrink can do this for free by both stripping out unneeded parts (how many audio tracks do you REALLY need?) and shrinking the movie itself.  There are other programs out there that may get you better quality results, but DVDShrink is free.

Title: Burning DVDs
Post by: j1lite on July 18, 2003, 04:07:01 PM

Dvd xcopy express will make 1to 1 back up copies of dvd movies it made by 321 studios /biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':D\' />

Title: Burning DVDs
Post by: Josetann on July 18, 2003, 04:58:07 PM

Which is great if you like using two DVD's for most movies.  Personally I'll go with the one-disk-backup method.

Title: Burning DVDs
Post by: Guest_j1lite on July 18, 2003, 06:58:42 PM

DVD xcopy takes 2 disk.DVD xcopy express will recopy to 1 disk /biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':D\' />

Title: Burning DVDs
Post by: Josetann on July 18, 2003, 08:01:41 PM

I did not know that.  I will look into it.  I'd still prefer DVDShrink for a free solution, or DVD2one/InstantCopy/etc. for the quality.

Title: Burning DVDs
Post by: The_Flames on July 18, 2003, 08:04:17 PM

I stand corrected /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />

Title: Burning DVDs
Post by: evilrage on September 13, 2004, 07:41:14 PM

/rolleyes.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':rolleyes:\' />  Or just use Dvd X-copy and a sweet little program called DVD Reigon Free