Topic: Copying a DVD

[Rik]

What Sandra said - she hit post before me.

[gmax]

Clive just drop the dvd over to me, i will have it copied in 15 mins,  :)this is not a "pressed DVD" i doubt there is any copy protection on it.

[Clive]

Wow!!  The knowledge you people have!!   

[daveeb]

Clive, open Nero and select DVD Video.  Navigate to the files you hopefully have persuaded to copy to the HD.  Drag these from the right hand pane (All the files should be selected ie vob, bup, ifo and ts) to the video TS folder on the extreme left and burn the compilation.  Hopefully this will give you a stable copy which if you require you should then be able to make further copies of with the usual "copy" function in nero. 

[Clive]

So I've downloaded Clone DVD and AnyDVD - for free - yes FREE - to my desktop and I have 21 days to evaluate it.  "use it frequently" they said.  It took less than 2 minutes to download the lot (oh well I have a BT Broadband connection running at all of 9 kb/s on a good day).  Well, that's enough excitement for today!  Best for me to lie down in a darkened room now.  

[Clive]

Thanks Dave, but I don't have Nero.  I'm very deprived.   

[Rik]

You know, Clive, the i and a are so well separated on the keyboard that I'm surprised at that typo. 

[Clive]

An easy mistake to make Rik.   

[Rik]

 

I'm glad that your sense of humour is in tune with mine, Clive.

[Clive]

I think we all have the same sense of humour here Rik.   

OK, I've plucked up enough courage to click on AnyDVD to see what it has to say.  It says there is no protection at all!  This is what it says:


Summary for drive D: (AnyDVD 6.2.0.1)
TSSTCORP CD/DVDW TS-H552B TS04 0910
Drive (Hardware) Region: 0 (not set!)

Media is a DVD.
Booktype: dvd-r (version 5), Layers: 1
Total size: 1366896 sectors (2669 MBytes)

Video DVD (or CD) label: NEW
Media is not CSS protected.
Video Standard: PAL
Media is locked to region(s): 1 2 3 4 5 6!

RCE protection not found.
Structural copy protection not found.
Autorun not found on Video DVD.
Bad sector protection not found.
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 1!

[Clive]

DVD Clone has located the files and is racing through the DVD at great speed. 

[Clive]

Now it's saying Output Method - DVD Files or ISO/UDF Image.  Are the files now on my computer?  Do I eject the source DVD and insert a blank recordable?  Getting pannicky now!   

[Rik]

Tell it DVD files and follow the prompts would be my advice, Clive.

[bobscrachy]

Now it's saying Output Method - DVD Files or ISO/UDF Image.  Are the files now on my computer?  Do I eject the source DVD and insert a blank recordable?  Getting pannicky now!   

Clone dvd either clones the dvd to another dvd or it clones them to a directory you specify before it starts to record. I normally clone the dvd files to my computer for archiving. If you want to see where the output directory is go to clone a dvd again and see where the output directory is set to. If the files are less than 4.5gigs then its ready to be burned with nero.

Btw, I can't post on my normal account. Sandra changed the sn for me to reno and it locked up my member permissions.

[Simon]

Btw, I can't post on my normal account. Sandra changed the sn for me to reno and it locked up my member permissions.

Should be OK now, Bob (as Reno).  Sandra had used the wrong method to give you access to the Danger Zone, and that had blocked your usual permissions.