Anybody using DVDxCOPY? Likes/Dislikes?

[Schnieds]

Hey,

Like the title says I am wondering if any of you are using DVDxCOPY and if so what you like/dislike about it.

$80 is a bunch o' cash to drop for a software package, so I wanted to see what everyone else thought before I dropped the dough...

Thanks!

 

[Antisocial Virge]

If you buy it retail you don't get free upgrades which sucks since it has lots of bugs. If you want to have free upgrades you have to buy it directly from 321studios for $100. The company is scummy all the way.

 

[PhaZe]

I believe all that software does is allow you to rip and encode a DVD into a SVCD which utilizes CD-R.

I also think that you can find excellent software that can do this for free.

Check out doom9.org and CDfreaks.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

I believe all that software does is allow you to rip and encode a DVD into a SVCD which utilizes CD-R.

nope. Splits a dvd across 2 dvdr

 

[sickNtired]

I use that software -- very good. Does everything for you. Lets you make backups of your single layer DVDs directly to 1
DVD-R/+R and a dual layer DVDs to 2 DVD-R/+Rs.

 

[madthumbs]

DVD Decrypter basically does the same thing. They do both seem buggy and I think require thier own drivers. Unfortuneatly neither will make an image file that you can burn with another program, or work from files off the HD. I think there are freeware programs you can use to do this kind of stuff and even rip and compress a bit to fit a dual layer on a single layer, but so far I don't think anything out there makes it simple.

 

[Schnieds]

Thanks for all of the info... it sounds like DVDxCopy is kinda limited and weak.

Is it correct that it won't let you choose not to copy the extra features, languages, etc.?

Thanks for the links to the free DVD burning software. I have done a bunch of DVD to DivX conversion in the past, so that feels right at home. If I am going to be dealing with buggy software, I would rather deal with free buggy software than with $100 buggy software....

-Schnieds

 

[madthumbs]

It does copy the extra features, and currently I know of no simple software for making 1:1 copys especially spread over 2 disks.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Originally posted by: madthumbs
It does copy the extra features, and currently I know of no simple software for making 1:1 copys especially spread over 2 disks.

Info edit will do it but I don't think its as simple, but it is free. Personally, I'd rather put just the movie on one dvdr and not the whole dvd on 2 dvdr.

 

[sickNtired]

You can remove any of the features that you don't want. In fact, if you only want the movie w/o any of the features, that is possible as well.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Originally posted by: sickNtired
You can remove any of the features that you don't want. In fact, if you only want the movie w/o any of the features, that is possible as well.

That may be true but 9/10 it will still need 2 dvdr since even the movie will be over the capacity of a single DVDr. I'll just keep doing it the "hard" way till someone comes up with a easy way to downsample it to one dvdr. I think dvd2dvddr might already do it but havn't checked into that yet.

 

[Shagga]

Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge

Originally posted by: sickNtired
You can remove any of the features that you don't want. In fact, if you only want the movie w/o any of the features, that is possible as well.

That may be true but 9/10 it will still need 2 dvdr since even the movie will be over the capacity of a single DVDr. I'll just keep doing it the "hard" way till someone comes up with a easy way to downsample it to one dvdr. I think dvd2dvddr might already do it but havn't checked into that yet.

Hey Virge, do u know where u can get DVD2DVDr? If thats what it is called. Your right about DVDXCopy most of the time 2 DVD's are required. :frown:

[edit]

Found it I think.

 

[sickNtired]

That's not been my experience. If you dump all of the extra features and just want the movie itself, my experience is that you can get all of the movie on 1 disk

 

[AnitaPeterson]

A LOT of info - and download links - for DVD 2 DVD-R