Burning DVD's Advice!!!!!

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humm... well I back up all of my DVD's so I can take them with me where ever I go and no need to worrie about damage or loss and I have Just bought DVD X Copy Platium edition. Is is just me but I can't seem to get any Movie on one DVD anymore, I do have a 8x DL DVD+\- but I am not willing to put out the cost of the actual DVD DL blank disc, is there a better program or what?

next it will play in my laptop but every minute of two it lags and pauses am i running out of avail. memory, all programs that i use to view still have the same problem and several movies do this too..... HELP

and finally how do i rip dvd to Avi. so i can put the file on say an SD card and watch on say a psp or fit 3\5 movies on a DVD?

Thanks,
 
Movie DVD's are copy protected, which means they prevent copying, the programs i know that can copy them are DVD Copy Tools and DVD Shrink. Dont know of any to transform DVD to AVI thta actually work.
 
There are tonnes of guides for DVD->avi, and a few programs like Dr DivX and Gordian Knot pack (never tried those personally though)....look up http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/ -- DivX and XviD section.

Though btw as far as I know the PSP only plays .mp4 files and not .avi, and furthermore uses the sony memory stick and not an SD.
 
First off, this should probably be in the CD/DVD catagory, but N E Way, unless you have a super bad ass system, you're movies aren't going to turn out all too well if you try and encode them with DIVX, but have you started using a different type of disc than usual? DVDs are the only thing I have seen that makes a difference with the type of discs used. What are you using to watch the movies? and Do they work in a normal DVD player or anything?
 
retail dvds are around 8GB. to back these up, you will either need a 8GB dvd, which are alot more expensive than normal ones, or shrink the dvd. www.dvdshrink.org will back up dvd's by shrinking them to the appropriate size, with slight, bearly noticable quality loss (obviously).
 
First of all i use Sony 8x dvd+ They do work in my home theater dvd player, which is why i ask if i may need more ram i dont want to buy if it may be a configuration problem. But i think i will try out dvdshrink.

Thanks
 
if you just copy the movie sometimes but now movies themselves are over 5GB leaving not enough room. to fit onto one disc and DVDx copy doesn't shrink the file.
 
yes it does, i have the same program, go into advanced mode then select all the little check boxes for the features you want to choose, then if its over 4.3gbs or so it will auto compress it, you go through the screen that tells you how much you will compress it and then it copies.

I do it all the time :)
 
unless you have a super bad ass system, you're movies aren't going to turn out all too well if you try and encode them with DIVX
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I dunno since when system specs made a difference to the quality of an encode?

DVDXCopy is probably the problem and switching to DVDShrink to fit them onto single layer DVD-/+Rs would work for DVD backup.

About the laptop viewing problem, if the laptop has poor specs then its not going to be easily solved but give VideoLAN VLC media player a try.

EDIT: ok DVDXCopy is ok after all ;)
 
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