Copy a DVD to DVD
 

Hi, my boyfriend gave me a DVD-RAM recorder for my birthday and im not familiar with copy things... Im trying to make a copy of a DVD film, but it has a copyright protection... Is it possible to remeve the copyright or bypass it :confused:

thanks a lot
:)

Attack of the Clones
 

Greetings, lass

Happy birthday & welcome 2 the forum.


I'm not too well versed in DVD copying either, but U could give CloneDVD a try - get it here. Not that I've ever witnessed its performance, but the name by itself sounds so nice, doesn't it? :p

PS. since you're not familiar with DVD copying, let me remind you that a DVD recorder is not enough, you'll need a blank DVD as well - but I think you've already figured that out.. :D

Read the sticky topic in the DVD Backup forum - although I'm not sure of the capacity of dvd-ram disks.

thanks IceBreaker, but im not that stupid!!! :p

i tryed clonedvd but i still have the same error... but in clonedvd i have a message : "can't read CSS- encoded dvd, so can't copy it"

i tryed clonedvd but i still have the same error... but in clonedvd i have a message : "can't read CSS- encoded dvd, so can't copy it"

Try DVDShrink best dvd authoring programme i have used, then use nero burn to put it onto a disc.

Some great tutorials here

hope that helps :)

FiT

I could have sworn you said exactly the same thing in your previous post...:D


My suggesting CloneDVD may have been somewhat hasty.

Indeed, I inquired about CloneDVD, and it turned out that it CANNOT make 1:1 copies of CSS-encrypted DVDs, thus it does NOT deserve its name, sacrebleu!

WHATA SHAME!!! :mad:


In fact, there is no software to this day that can backup CSS-protected DVDs in 1:1 fashion. My guess is, CSS encrypts the DVD's TOC (Table Of Contents), much like some CD copy-protection schemes. The snag is, unlike in the case of CD-readers, there is no DVD-reader as of yet that can read a DVD in RAW mode. In other words, there is no such thing as RAW-reading for DVDs. Which explains why it is impossible (for now) to make exact replicas of certain DVD titles.


HOWEVER: this is no cause 4 despair. If the protection cannot be defeated, it can still be bypassed! There are tools that can remove the CSS protection so U can still backup your DVD. The backup will not be 1:1 since the protection won't be on the copy, but hell, who cares as long as the copy works...

Such software works in conjunction with DVD-copying progs (such as CloneDVD): it operates in the background, like a virtual drive interface, decrypting the DVD "on-the-fly" and transmitting the modified data to the DVD-copying program.

One of these tools is 'AnyDVD', U can get it here.


PS. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST! There are a few unsupported DVD-readers.

PPS. Mind what Ghost said - make sure about the recordable DVD formats your writer can support: DVD-R(W), DVD+R(W),DVD-RAM, etc... I think DVD-RAM capacity is roughly 10Gb. I know very little about this format. On the other hand, DVD-R is the most widely used, however DVD+R is said 2 be FAR more reliable.

PPPS. Don't forget the blank DVD... :D :D

Thanks a lot :) it works great! (anydvd with clone dvd)

But now, i have another question... My friend wants to do the same, but he has a Mac and i saw that anydvd works only with windows.... Any idea for a soft like anydvd works with mac??

thanks

Re: Copy a DVD to DVD
 

i use dvd decripter,dvd2one then nero works perfect everytime and the backups work on my £37 dvd player i got from argos

No prob, lass :cool:

As 4 Mac, I suggest DVDbackup, it works on Mac platforms and also decrypts and backs up CSS-protected DVDs, it can be found here.

NB. I don't know of any DVD backup software for AS400 and mainframe systems. Not that U asked yet, I'm just anticipating further questions... :D