Burner software

[Dumpy]

Hey everyone

just curious about a new DVD RW ( Lite-On 16X DVD Dual Drive, Model SOHW-1633S Black, Retail ) I just purchased. I want to make backups of all my DVDs but was told I may have trouble because of the encryption. The burner came with Nero. I just want to know if I am going to be able to burn exact copies of my DVDs with Nero or will I have to look for other software. I did find a program called DVD Cloner II which says it can do it but dayuuuuuuuum I already spent a load trying to get everything to build this system. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dumpy

 

[Dumpy]

GREETINGS

just curious about a new DVD RW ( Lite-On 16X DVD Dual Drive, Model SOHW-1633S Black, Retail ) I just purchased. I want to make backups of all my DVDs but was told I may have trouble because of the encryption. The burner came with Nero. I just want to know if I am going to be able to burn exact copies of my DVDs with Nero or will I have to look for other software. I did find a program called DVD Cloner II which says it can do it but dayuuuuuuuum I already spent a load trying to get everything to build this system. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dumpy

 

[Praetor]

Depends how you want to "back it up" and if there is protection and how you want to approach that protection. The easiest route would probably be DVDDecryptor/SmartRipper followed by DVDSHrink or AnyDVD or CloneDVD2 but again it depends what you mean by "backup" as well as whether you are trying to backup a DVD9 (as opposed to DVD5) disk and if so, how you want to approach that

 

[Dumpy]

Well I would like to make exact copies of DVDs which I bought from Walmart Bestbuy etc. I haven't really check what format they are but am sure there are some that are some DVD 9 and DVD5 I just don't want to have to span them across mulitple disk unless they came in a 2 disk set

 

[aqsg72]

Your burner does support dual layer burning, so you can theoretically copy a dvd, however, DVD encryption is a problem so you need a program like DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/

This will allow you to make a burn-able image (with nero for example from a retail dvd, however you would require a dual layer DVD-R in order to burn this [expensive!]. What I would personally recommend is using a transcoder like DVD Shrink http://www.dvdshrink.org/ to downsample the quality (fairly neglible decrease in quality) in order to make an ISO ~4400MB so that an ordinary DVD-R can be burned. [DVD Shrink is essentially a 1-click-solution program] There are other methods but for speed weighed against quality the general consensus is that DVD Shrink is the best solution

 

[Dumpy]

thanks for the info

I figure DVD-R would be expensive but prefer the quality that I would expect to get from it. I had the the files you have talked about I just need to give them a whirl. I guess the best thing to do would be put all this hardware together first and then go from there.

Once again thanks

Dumpy

 

[Praetor]

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