Copy a DVD to DVD

[IceBreaker]

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


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!!!


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...