Was about to try CloneDVD out, when I noticed a footnote saying it doesn't rip DVD's.
Ummm... Dumbass Question Alert... How the heck can you CLONE a DVD without RIPPING it first? I mean, I presume 'clone' in this case means 'create an identical copy of'. So to do that, it has to rip the data off the original DVD so it can burn it on the new one. If it doesn't rip it, I presume you've got to rip it with something else first, which means CloneDVD is just another DVD burner, same as Nero, right?
clonedvd because of legal technicality can only be sold to rip dvd's that are not copy protected. But in order for it to rip copy protected dvd's it has to have the program "anydvd" running in the background. The company that sales clonedvd usually sales both of them as a package deal.
Anydvd and Clonedvd where design to work together as a team. Unless you buy "anydvd", clonedvd is about as useful as dvdshrink which does about the same thing.
You can use dvdfabHDdecrypter to rip the dvd, then process the ripped files with clonedvd. But it would be just as easy to use the free dvdshrink 3.2 to process the ripped files, which is how I do it.
Technically clonedvd will clone a DVD as long as it is not "copy protected". Clonedvd is more than just a burner it processes the files by shrinking them to fit in one dvd and by editing how the finish dvd will look, example no subtitiles or foreign languages. When I have used it, it has work very well, but in the end I prefer the no-frills easy to use dvdshrink.
