Is it possible to watch and back up the DVD simultaneously?

[coody]

Is it possible to watch and back up the DVD simultaneously? If so, what tool can do it?

[RDS1955]

Generally, as a rule of thumb, when I back up my media, I let the PC work on it all by itself, and leave it alone while it's doing it....If you have a premium model PC, and I mean a new Nuclear model that can do Multimedia tasking and play games at the same time type, then you could give it a try and see the results 1st hand for yourself, but if you don't have one of those, it's probably not a good iea to try dual tasking by watching and working on the project..

[neomaine]

You could consider capturing the DVD. Just plug the output of your DVD player into a capture card and off you go. May want to watch out for Macrovision though.

[waheed]

You mean backup a commercial DVD. First rip the DVD to your hard drive (should take around 10-15 minutes). Then use any transcoder, like DVD Shrink to compress and watch the DVD at the same time. I managed to do it once or twice (I have four SATA drives so this might have made a difference as I ripped to one disk and transcode to another). But as RDS1955 mentioned, you would need a high spec PC.

[InXess]

Rip (15 min) and then watch

[TBoneit]

trying to rip the DVD and watch from the DVD will be a lousy experience plus thrashing your reader as it trys to access tow different parts at the same time.