best program for?:

[denz_ngr]

1. what is the best program to make a 1:1 copy of a DVD (directly from my DVD rom to my DVD writer)? I tried recordnow but it stopped at 30% and said error reading from source or something like that, but I know that the source CD is fine, I just burnt it and watched the whole movie fine.

2. what is the best program for resizing your DVD. Like from 1.85:1 to 16:9 or 2.05:1 to 16:9. or is there even one? and would you lose a whole lot of quality?

[Bodene]

1 Use Nero, RecordNow DX, Ez CD Creator or any burning software that is DVD disk to disk enabled. Copying on the fly is not a reliable way to copy a disk tho. Most folks have problems, and end up copying to the HD first.

2) No ideer. Butchering up a perfectly good movie is all you'd accomplish if u try to change it from wide screen to full screen or sumthin like that.

[andydd]

You cant copy directly from a (CSS protected) DVD to a DVD-R, most burners will do it (assuming the DVD is less than 4.4 GB) but youll end up with an unplayable DVD-R.

DVDs contain CSS encryption that must be removed first..(ie with DVDdecypter)

[Bodene]

Andy...if you read his first post closely, he mentions that he had just burnt and tested the source disk, so there was no encryption involved. I missed that part the first time I read it also.