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Thread ID: 61352	2005-09-01 21:58:00	Backing up DVD's	CaptinMoor (8392)	Press F1

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385293	2005-09-02 02:48:00	There is a simple way to answer this. The Question is does your movie DVD backups play on your computer DVD player? **If yes then the copy worked, and its probabaly your external DVD player is having probs reading the copied DVD format as stated above. **If no then then it is probably the way you are copying the DVD. Use DVDshrink instead as I know this works well. POWERDVD or something similar will be needed to play DVD movies on your PC, that are probably located on your DVD install software CD incase you didnt know.	Battleneter (60)
385294	2005-09-02 03:11:00	:D Here's how it works, I've been through all this and found what I believe to be the easiest way. Erm but you'll probably need nero. Two programmes (both free open programmes) DVD Decrypter <1MB download DVD shrink (they say beware of people trying to sell it to you) DVD Decrypter extracts your movie to the harddrive and removes things such as macrovision protection (which is there to stop you backing up your movies). You can have your movie extracted to a folder as files or as an ISO. If the extracted movie is <4.7GB then you can choose to create an ISO and use your burning software to make a new disk. If the extracted movie is going to be bigger than 4.7GB then use extract to file and then close DVD Decrypter and open DVD Shrink and choose open files and then locate your extracted movie and then OK. You can play with the settings if you don't mind using up a few disks but for starters just click Backup on the toolbar. You will get a dialogue box that will give you the option to burn a new disk, if you have nero installed. Otherwise it will create ISO images for you - you can even check a box from that same dialogue and have DVD shrink burn your ISO file to a blank automatically with DVD decrypter. :D Just beware you you will go through a few disks while sorting out what best suits you. oh and your backups are identical to the origional and will play in your DVD player. I recomend buying DVD-R as they're cheaper and faster, I brought 50 for $29.95 at that big red shed-looking place.	apparition (3207)
385295	2005-09-02 03:13:00	:eek: it took me so long to type that that someone already mentioned the three magic programmes	apparition (3207)
385296	2005-09-02 03:49:00	I wonder how much longer this thread has befor the mods edit and lock it. Or has there been a law change?	Rob99 (151)
385297	2005-09-02 04:54:00	The law says you can record television for the purpose of time shifting. You can backup other media but only retain one copy. The first disk media backup I ever made was of the nod disk of timerium sun because of a big scratch - it was copyable but not useable. In coping it I still only had one copy :D	apparition (3207)
385298	2005-09-02 05:10:00	I haven't found a stand-alone dvd player that can play the latest backup with shrink - I think it is because there weren't any special features to get rid of so it required a lot more compression. I've got an old backup of a dvd movie I made at the start of the year that works fine on my standalone player. I can't remember what version of shrink I used to make that. If only it didn't take so long to rip DVDs to xvid - I hate getting wear & tear on my origional disks, and it is a lot more convienent to have divx movies on my hard drive that I can watch any time or burn to a blank CD/DVD if I want to take it anywhere. If home theatre PCs become an affordable option, XVid will be just as convienent for movies as mp3 is for music.	Greven (91)
385299	2005-09-02 05:23:00	Greven, did you try using re-author in dvd shrink? I've used it twice when all else failed.	apparition (3207)
385300	2005-09-02 05:30:00	it takes me two hours to do a whole disc to XviD However I think we're crossing the line here, lets leave this thread to die.	Chilling_Silence (9)
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