hey guys im new here and I read all the stickies but its to hard to understand so im just gonna ask I have a movie DVD that I bought and i want to make another back up copy. the thing is that the original DVD is like 3-4 Gigs and the cds i have can only handle up to 700 MB and 80 mins. My question is what is a good program that is free and lets me burn another copy? Also into a file that can be played in Windows Media Player. Thanks
the dvd backup guides won't work, you'll have to use the dvd to vcd/svcd guides to get it to fit to a cdr http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/
ah ok yeah i was talking to one of my friends and they said i need a DVD-R cd I was thinking of just buying a blank cd and copying to it.. Is it just the same as making any regular cd? or do i also have to do some other special tricks to it? Thanks Flip
no, your going to have to compress and re-encode it. just out of curiosity, why dvd to cd? DVD burners are really affordable. You can buy a NEC3540 for like $50. Doing a DVD9 to a DVD5 the quality will be much much better. And for you, your original is only 3-4 GB so no need for compression. It's a simple rip and burn to a dvd blank.
what? I have to have a dvd burner to be able to burn them? i was just thinking of going to BestBuy tomorrow and buying some DVD-R cds the 4.7 GB/ 120 Minute ones and just popping it in and make a copy. but i have to have a dvd burner too? i have just a Plextor 16x CD-Recordable, 10x CD-Rewritable, 40x max CD-Readable but i have to have a dvd burner?
Just to get this out of the way now ... don't account for the 120minutes and 4.7 is more like 4.36GB of burnable area. And yes to burn a dvd you need a dvd burner. to burn a cd you need at least a cd burner. Like a DVD Rom will not burn anything.
today i bought the cds but i guess now i have to buy the dvd burner lol but i dont get it why i cant just burn it with a cd burner i mean isnt it the same thing?
For what your doing (a DVD5 ... less than 4.36GB) you can just use DVD Decrypter. Rip in ISO mode and then burn the ISO. For anything larger than 4.36GB you'll need to compress it then burn it. Guides: bbmayo's guides: http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/index.html Newbies: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/183136 ScubaPete's guides: http://www.dvdplusv
