copying dvd with protection

[schunker]

i am new to computers. i have decided to back up my DVD collection. all legally bought. i have been told i cant make copies because the DVD are copy write protected. i would appreciate any help thank you my computer is ahp pavillion and i have a trial edition of ROXIO 2011 creater

[Baldrick]

Dvdfab.

[Kerry56]

It depends on what format you want them in and if you want the entire disc, or if you just want the main movie.

DVDFab has a free section, called DVDFab HD Decrypter, which will continue to function as a decryption and ripping program for you even after the trial for the main part of DVDFab expires. Of the free choices, this one is the most commonly used, and most recommended. But there are some others available.

MakeMKV can decrypt and rip your movies, but will do so in an mkv file container, and will not include the extras and menus. It will not re-encode the movie, so you will get the same quality as the original. You need a new beta key about once a month to keep using the program: http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1053

One free program that doesn't get much attention is BDLot DVD ISO Master. It rips the entire dvd as an ISO file. If you have a player that can access ISO files, like VLC, then this option can work reasonably well. Or you can mount the ISO in a virtual drive. Windows 8 has the ability to mount ISO's natively.

[Wolfen]

Or again there is Freemake-Video-Converter which rips dvds to most formats, and free and easy to use.

[Noahtuck]

What format you want them in has nothing to do with "ripping" them.

Although I seemed to have missed where he stated anything to do with "format" or "converting".
Again, over complicating a simple process to a simple question.

To "rip" your dvd's and remove any copy protection just do what baldrick said the way "your question" was asked, simply.
As "ripping" is just making a 1:1 copy of the original, no conversion or other format is involved.

If you want more, ask.

[Kerry56]

What format you want them in has nothing to do with "ripping" them.

Although I seemed to have missed where he stated anything to do with "format" or "converting".
Again, over complicating a simple process to a simple question.

To "rip" your dvd's and remove any copy protection just do what baldrick said the way "your question" was asked, simply.
As "ripping" is just making a 1:1 copy of the original, no conversion or other format is involved.

If you want more, ask.

Ripping can involve selecting certain parts of the movie and leaving out others. That has nothing to do with "converting". So, no, not necessarily simple.

Offering alternatives is one of the things we do around here, and when those alternatives give different outputs, it is best to explain them to someone new to the process.

[Noahtuck]

Ripping does not involve,

It depends on what format you want them in and if you want the entire disc, or if you just want the main movie.

So we can nitpick some more but my point is, offering more information then what was asked and making things more complicated than what they need to be made.

Hey look, you did not ask this but I will add a hundred extra things just because I know them even though you did not ask

[Kerry56]

Format can also mean as files or as an ISO. So get off your high horse. You know this as well as anyone around here.

And yes, I'll continue to post with full answers whenever I damn well please.

[Noahtuck]

Format can also mean as files or as an ISO. So get off your high horse. You know this as well as anyone around here.

And yes, I'll continue to post with full answers whenever I damn well please.

Go see a Dr.

[schunker]

thank you to everybody who replied to my post. i got myself a copy of dvdfab. i installed it tried to copy a DVD everything seem to go well until tried to burn to a blank DVD. at first it kept rejecting the the blank asking for a compatible media. tried a dual layer disc and this work fine. my only problem now is it wont play on my DVD player (Samsung) it play ok on computer. i am sure there is i not doing but i don't know what it is. the reason for copying these disk i am going working away in a few weeks and will e away for a few months and don't wont to take originals for fear of loss or damagecheers

[El Heggunte]

1) did you use Verbatim media?

2) did you use ImgBurn?

[sanlyn]

3) Did you finalize your burned disc?

4) Many set top players won't play DVD+R or any "RW" discs. The universally-compatible standard is DVD-R.

[MindController]

Format can also mean as files or as an ISO. So get off your high horse. You know this as well as anyone around here.

And yes, I'll continue to post with full answers whenever I damn well please.

Sound's like someone is on their period.

[Richard_G]

May be old school and may not work with some of the very latest discs with copy protection but rip and shrink with DVDShrink and burn with Imgburn. It used to be the standard but hasn't been updated to cope with the very latest forms of copy protection but I've only come across one or two discs it wouldn't work with. You have a choice of copying the whole disc with menus and extras or reauthor so you have just the main movie. That way there will be minimal shrinking to be done to fit it on a single layer disc.

and ignore the children arguing......

[tarzan54]

It was probably rejecting the DVD because the file was too big, A single layer DVD goes to 4.36gb anything larger will have to be put on a DL DVD, You can shrink a DVD with DVD Shrink or CloneDVD2, If burning with Imgburn just add the video folder that's located in the main movie folder then click on calculate then click on burn, It is really easy after you do a few and get used to it.

[schunker]

i have used verbatim 4.7gb 16x 120min disc. i have a go at dvd shrink and imgburn again everthing goes ok say disc burn successful but still wont play in my DVD . i have tried on four different dvd players samsung toshiba sanyo and a bush and it wont play on any it says disc read disc

[tarzan54]

Are you burning it as a video dvd or a data dvd? Maybe your dvd players won't play a data dvd but I would think that they would be able too, Also are you sure your burning a file that is dvd compatible and not blu-ray, Try playing the dvd in a blu-ray player and see what happens.