Help - using dvd recorder to record off dvd player

[AlastairSim]

This has probably been asked before or I'msure the information is provided somewhere on this site, but I'm a layman and i find most of the info deals with burning dvds on your pc. how do you take a dvd recorder and record off a dvd player? please someone explain!!! i need to copy a dvd-r movie for someone and don'tknow how

[mats.hogberg]

You do that with your PC, not a DVD recorder. Put the DVD-R in your DVD reader in your computer, start DVDDecrypter in ISO Read mode. Once ripped to ISO, put a blank DVD-R in your computer DVD writer, and again use DVDDecrypter in ISO Write mode.

/Mats

[RoyGBiv-inRI]

The vast majority of commercially produced DVDs are copy protected. All stand alone DVD recorders will respond to that copy protection preventing your making a copy. The only way to copy a copy protected DVD is through your PC using the software that is discussed on this forum.

SMK

[Epicurus8a]

If your DVD Recorder has a hard drive, you might be able to copy the disc to the hard drive then burn a copy. Check the owners manual for instructions.

[Noahtuck]

What matssaid....

If you don't have a dvd burner in your pc just hook the dvd player into the dvd recorder and record it, just like copying a vcr tape, cassette tape, ect.
But for $30.00 you should prob. pick one up if you don't have one

The vast majority of commercially produced DVDs are copy protected. All stand alone DVD recorders will respond to that copy protection preventing your making a copy. The only way to copy a copy protected DVD is through your PC using the software that is discussed on this forum.

SMK

Ummmm...

i need to copy a dvd-r movie for someone and don't know how

[Seeker47]

The vast majority of commercially produced DVDs are copy protected. All stand alone DVD recorders will respond to that copy protection preventing your making a copy. The only way to copy a copy protected DVD is through your PC using the software that is discussed on this forum.

Not entirely accurate. Some older DVD players (like my workhorse Malata 700) were "chipped", to be both region and MV free. I could play just about any commercial DVD (that would play in this player -- and that would likely be over 99% of them), and from there go straight in to my Pioneer DVDR. (The regular setup I have is not configured that way, so I'd have to move some cable connections around. I might also want to get the TBC into that chain.) That said, I think doing this in the computer would generally be easier, and provide more control and versatility. I'm not sure how the quality comparison would come out, but I suspect that a strong edge would go to doing it the computer way, as this is a straight digital copy, without all the intervening circuitry.