DVD recorder

[MIGhunter]

I just bought a Sony DVD recorder. Can you burn a DVD straight from the disc or do you have to copy it to your harddrive and then burn it. Why is it that nobody gives instructin manuals anymore.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: MIGhunter
I just bought a Sony DVD recorder. Can you burn a DVD straight from the disc or do you have to copy it to your harddrive and then burn it. Why is it that nobody gives instructin manuals anymore.

DVDs are encrypted. They can't be copied directly. You'd have to decrypt it first. However, that doesn't help you much with most commercial DVDs, since the good commercial DVDs are often dual layer, and contain more info than can be put on a single DVD blank.

 

[Need4Speed]

Originally posted by: Eug

Originally posted by: MIGhunter
I just bought a Sony DVD recorder. Can you burn a DVD straight from the disc or do you have to copy it to your harddrive and then burn it. Why is it that nobody gives instructin manuals anymore.

DVDs are encrypted. They can't be copied directly. You'd have to decrypt it first. However, that doesn't help you much with most commercial DVDs, since the good commercial DVDs are often dual layer, and contain more info than can be put on a single DVD blank.

so how is this a problem? there is more than one way to get a DV-9 onto a DV-5 DVD-R.

Method 1: Use more than one DV-5 disc. Programs like DVDxcopy are used for this/
Method 2: Downsample a portion (the menus, bonus tracks, etc) of the DVD to fit it on there. Programs like InstantCopy can do this.
Method 3: Rip out parts of the DV-9 that you dont want like 2-channel stereo or french subtitles, etc...dvd2one or instantcopy with the reghack can do this.

My prefered method is 2...i downsample menus, bonus tracks etc, until it fits, while keeping the movie at the original level.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: Need4Speed

Originally posted by: Eug

Originally posted by: MIGhunter
I just bought a Sony DVD recorder. Can you burn a DVD straight from the disc or do you have to copy it to your harddrive and then burn it. Why is it that nobody gives instructin manuals anymore.

DVDs are encrypted. They can't be copied directly. You'd have to decrypt it first. However, that doesn't help you much with most commercial DVDs, since the good commercial DVDs are often dual layer, and contain more info than can be put on a single DVD blank.

so how is this a problem? there is more than one way to get a DV-9 onto a DV-5 DVD-R.

Method 1: Use more than one DV-5 disc. Programs like DVDxcopy are used for this/
Method 2: Downsample a portion (the menus, bonus tracks, etc) of the DVD to fit it on there. Programs like InstantCopy can do this.
Method 3: Rip out parts of the DV-9 that you dont want like 2-channel stereo or french subtitles, etc...dvd2one or instantcopy with the reghack can do this.

My prefered method is 2...i downsample menus, bonus tracks etc, until it fits, while keeping the movie at the original level.

And of course Method 4: Reecode the movie. How are any of these methods a problem? It's a lot of work.

Anyways, that's not the question he was asking. The way understood it at least, he was trying to make direct backups of DVDs.

 

[Need4Speed]

for true dvd backups i use dvddecrypter to rip the iso to the hdd.
from there you can decide if you want to keep the quality of the original dvd...if yes, then use dvdxcopy and spread across multiple cds.
if no, then use instantcopy to downsample and squeeze onto one dvd-r

as for taking a lot of work? no, it just takes time.

"direct dvd backups" are possible, but not with any of the mentioned software. there are true one click solutions out there...use google to find them

 

[airis2001]

The easiest way to do this it to buy 321 studios dvdxcopy- it pretty much works as advertised. It will automitacally split the dvd and will rewrite the ifo files own its own, with pretty much 0 user input. Even less if you have a seperate dvd reader and dvd burner. Works eveytime, as long as you done touch your computer while it is burning a disk (its very touchy about this)

 

[MIGhunter]

how big is a normal DVD movie. The DVD drive I bought is the sony DRU 500-A which is capable of copying -r/-rw and +r/+rw on a 4.7GB disk. Where can I find the programs mentioned above.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: MIGhunter
how big is a normal DVD movie. The DVD drive I bought is the sony DRU 500-A which is capable of copying -r/-rw and +r/+rw on a 4.7GB disk. Where can I find the programs mentioned above.

Variable, but usually about 7-8 GBs for the good ones.

 

[oldfart]

Make it easy. Take a look HERE

 

[human2k]

Originally posted by: oldfart
Make it easy. Take a look HERE

Pirating is strictly prohibited on this forum. But if your backing up, the above linky is good.

 

[oldfart]

I dont pirate anything. DVD's are cheap enough. I just buy them and have no need to "back up"

discs. I use my DVD-R for burning home movies from my DV cam and data backups. I saw the thread in hot deals and found it interesting for people who do want to back up discs.

 

[Budman]

How about the program DVD2ONE ?