The absolute best way to copy DVD-9 to DVDr?

[darkjustice2099]

I'm a relative beginner to dvd burning, but I've recently begun the task of backing up ALL my DVDs to DVDr. For some of them, the movie is all that's important and I've just used DVD2oneX and Toast to copy the movie only. For others, however, I want to make full-disk copies but I haven't found an effective way of compressing the content of a DVD-9 to a DVDr. I've tried using InstantCopy and DVDshrink in Virtual PC 6.0, but neither worked (DVDShrink gave me error messages, while IC just stopped processing...)

Can anybody suggest any good software/methods I could use that would compress DVD-9 to DVD-5, or even split the content onto two disks? Software that does this seems fairly rare on Mac, so I'd appreciate any help. Thanks a lot!

[galactica]

Check my webpage.
its all explained in full detail even a newbies guide! with pictures
with links to apps

have fun

[the future]

DVD2oneX has a 'full disc' mode as well as a 'movie only' mode.

[Mauserman]

I would go with dvd2onex.

In my opinion it's the fastest way to do a complete copy of a dvd-9 movie.

[galactica]

to my knowledge, dvd2onex is the ONLY app for OSX that will do this dvd9 to dvd5

(unless you pull the .m2v and .ac3 and hand make the img where you individually downsize the .m2v and remix audio and resync ect...)

again,
check my webpage, links and pictures and how to's all layed out.

[darkjustice2099]

Thanks for the help, everyone (great tutorial, galactica!). I'm used to PC software such as InstantCopy where you can manually change the level of compression, etc, so I was thrown off by the simplicity of DVD2oneX. But it seems to do the job just fine! Thanks again.