Direct Dvd Copy

[TheBurger]

This is my first message on the board.

We have just got a pioneer A05 at work and want to be able to copy DVD films and PS2 games.

I have got the full version of the latest Nero. DVD shrink.

Subject to the film being under 4.7gig why can you not just do a direct copy. Why does every say rip to HD first.

I would assume that DVD x copy 2 disc thing is only if the film is bigger than 4.7gig. This would be great for larger films 6 gig and above.

Is the average film over 4.7 gig.

Is the loss of quality during compression great.

Thanks in advance.

Nick

[gh0sth@cker]

If the film is CSS encoded (and many dvds are), then they have to be ripped to decode them, then you can burn straight to disk without compression.
If it isn't CSS encoded then yes you can do a direct copy but I wouldn't recommend copying 'on the fly' cos it introduces problems, you are much safer ripping to hard drive first.

[Gurm]

If the DVD isn't protected (or you happen to be using AnyDVD, which is an AWESOME program), you can just drag the files to your hard disk... and then burn them back out.

- Gurm