dvd copying questions

Qhorinn · Post by **Qhorinn** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:14 pm

Heya all,
santa dropped a nice new dvd burner for me this christmas. The first thing i tried to do was copy season 4 of the Simpsons, for safety reasons of course (in case of fire, i have a copy in my fireproof safe ^_^).
However, using the generic software that came with my hp bunrer, i get an error message saying the dvd is copy protected.
Now, is there anyrthing i can do to avoid the protection....ie any programs you savy peeps can recommend so i can freely copy the dvds i own.
A friend offered to lend me Roxio Easy CD + DVD creator 6th platinum....will that do the trick?
is there some freeware available i can get?
any help would be appreciated....thanks

Muzukh_the_Depraved · Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:17 pm

Your computer is homophobic.

Qhorinn · Post by **Qhorinn** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:44 pm

dont derail my thread cockgobbler

superwalrus · Post by **superwalrus** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:26 am

gooogle dvd shrink and download it. Also download the accompaning dvd decoder. Its the best free dvd backup copier, hell its the best dvd backuper period.

Walrus

EQLizard · Post by **EQLizard** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:36 am

besides gettin more ass then surley, walrus also has leet DVD info #=D

Bahd Zoolander · Post by **Bahd Zoolander** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:39 am

Gordian Knot is also good if you want to back them up to AVI files. Really depends on where you plan to watch them.

Qhorinn · Post by **Qhorinn** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:26 pm

thanks for the suggestions.
looking for best software to copy dvd to dvd, and be able to watch on dvd player. my dvd player is an xbox atm =p

Reii Gaiasliege · Post by **Reii Gaiasliege** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 12:06 am

DVD Shrink is the best. Ever.

As far as getting a copied DVD to play on an Xbox? If your 'box has a mod-chip, it'll work. If it doesn't? There's a good chance you're fucked.... at least, I haven't had any luck with a super-old 'box with the shitty dvd-rom.

Bahd Zoolander · Post by **Bahd Zoolander** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 4:06 am

Well, you do need to have the DVD playback kit for the XBox or you're out of luck. I haven't tried a burned movie on one though.

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 10:51 am

I got a dvd burner about a year ago and it took me a while to finally find the software to easily backup dvd's.

Dvd to dvd, you need dvd shrink.
1) Open dvd shrink
2) open disc which you want to be copied
3) wait for it to process
4) Click/unclick stuff you want on your copy. Since store dvd's are generally larger than the normal dvd+-r, you have to compress it some. Don't worry it's nothing that you can really notice. Make sure you have it down enough to fit on the dvd+-r
5) Click backup. It may give you a region option here, just choose 1 if you are in the united states. You must have Nero installed for this program to burn to selected drive. Nero can be bought, or downloaded from your favorite p2p program.

You only need dvd decoder if you want to put the movie on your hard drive. If you are doing that I would recommend Gordian Knot to turn it into avi.

All dvd's I have copied work fine on xbox, or any dvd player. I think one of the biggest factors in this is the kind of dvd+-r's you buy. I've had good luck with memorex. If you have any questions feel free to send me an e-mail on here.

Qhorinn · Post by **Qhorinn** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:59 pm

I tried getting DVD shrink and following the steps its suggests,
however i keep getting this error message.

DVD Shrink encountered a problem and cannot conitinue

Copy Protection error

The request could not be preformed because of an I/o device error.

Any suggestions on what i have to do?

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 8:16 pm

Hm... is that with any dvd or just a certain one? Which step does it give you this problem? After it encodes and is about to burn or right when you try and open it?

Reii Gaiasliege · Post by **Reii Gaiasliege** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:31 pm

Try installing 3rd-party DVD-player software on your PC like WinDVD. Easily acquired and it works well, plus installing it fills in any codec gaps (which is why you are getting the copy protection error) thus allowing the DVD ripper to access the film. This applies to any kind of media you put on a DVD. Strict files I have had no problem with, yet codecs run it all, and Microsoft just doesn't supply the right ones with their Media Player.

Reii Gaiasliege · Post by **Reii Gaiasliege** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:32 pm

Oh, and the ones Nero provides work as well, as long as your copy of Nero is the most recent one.

Bahd Zoolander · Post by **Bahd Zoolander** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:47 pm

You can also try playing a few minutes of the video to unlock it.

Kobayashi · Post by **Kobayashi** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:50 am

I too got converted over to DVDshrink. Best program EVER! Since then i cant keep up with my blank DVD-R consumption, i KNEW i shoulda bought more of those sony 25 packs i saw at staples here for $9

Post by **Ddrak** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:10 am

Go to http://www.doom9.org - it will explain literally all the options you have available and the way to use them all.

Note that DVD Shrink sacrifices quality of the backup for speed and ease of use. It all depends on how much you care.

Dd

Qhorinn · Post by **Qhorinn** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 9:23 am

I went ot Doom9.org.....found the link earlier on the dvdshrink webpage.
Fantastic site, gives great step by step details for multitudes of ways to rip dvds.

I finally got my first copies done

, using dvd decoder and dvd shrink. i found it worked best ripping the dvd to my hard drive first......and using dvd shrink is really easy. You can choose to either cut back on video quality or on quantity by chopping off extras, menus, credits, language tracks, whatever to make a DVD 9 fit on a DVD 5. I tried just compressing the video, even compressed it by 30smethiing% and the image was stilll good on tv.

Has anyone a DVD9 video to 2 DVD 5s? just wondering if thats a better option, that is splitting the movie, than shrinking it.

Thanks again for the great advice.

Bahd Zoolander · Post by **Bahd Zoolander** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:37 pm

You can find a lot of deals on media here: http://www.bensbargains.net/

I haven't split a movie onto 2 dvds, but it's pretty easy to put the movie on one and extras on another.

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