Can you make a "backup" of a DVD w/ a DVD-Burner? (like the PIONEER A03)

[5RC5TC]

Anybody have one of these, used it for making backups, is it even possible, what software is used?


Thanks in advance

 

[stuck4life]

I'm not sure about this, but I read somewhere that movie DVDs hold around 17gigs...

 

[Adul]

most DVD are double layered. Current DVD-R only writes to one layer. Max capacity of a DVD is 2 layers, 2 sides. That would equal ~ 17.4 Gb.

 

[5RC5TC]

WOW... but if that's true then why do DVD-Rs only hold 4.7gb?

 

[stuck4life]

Cool, though I've never seen 17gig blanks DVD being sold anywhere.

I think they only 4gig & 9gig DVDs to stop pirate copies of DVD movies being made.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/

thanks go to notfred for the link.

 

[5RC5TC]

thanks for the link

 

[Sugadaddy]

<< Cool, though I've never seen 17gig blanks DVD being sold anywhere.

I think they only 4gig & 9gig DVDs to stop pirate copies of DVD movies being made. >>




They don't sell 17GB DVD-R because the burners can only write to a single layer, like Adul said... 4 and 9GB blanks are single layer. (the 9GB one is double sided)


Most movies are single sided, dual layered, so you can't back them up entirely.

 

[mindiris]

Probably not worth it. Unless a DVD burner burns dual layers, if you back up a movie, you'd stop around where most low end players pause to switch layers.

 

[wasssup]

actually, there are nifty (albeit difficult to learn) programs, such as IfoEdit, that make burning a movie to a 4.7GB blank easier...normally only movies less than 120mins can fit on a DVD, if you notice the VOB's are absurdly large, you can "rip" out additional audio tracks (who needs a french and spanish dub anyway), and with a few more processes you can create all files required to burn the movie to the disc (usually missing such things like the menu, deleted scenes, etc) with a program such as neoDVD (this has on average yielded the best result for me, though it has more than occasionally had it's share of random crashes while burning to "expensive" $3 media)