DVD to DVD

[KennyV37]

I have a standalone DVD player as well as my new DVd recoder. Can I hook up my dubbing cables to the player, play a DVD and copy to my recorder like I could with two VCR's?

[samijubal]

Not without a stabilizer.

[Sabro]

Well you can, but usually only if the DVD is non copy protected...otherwise the player will send signals (cant remember the name of the copy protect...blah) to the outport jacks, and the signal will be scrambled, which the recorder will record, or refuse to record.

Some blindly record the garbage, while others will refuse to record, mentioning the disc is copy protected. So yeah, basically Samijbal is correct, unless the dvd being copied doesn't have any protection on it (as a already backed up copy, etc)

Sabro

PS. Macrovision Copy Protect is the name of it, finally remembered heh

[gshelley61]

It doesn't make much sense to to do it that way when you can simply rip and burn an exact (or compressed) copy using your computer with DVDShrink or a number of other freeware applications.

[Capmaster]

Well you can, but usually only if the DVD is non copy protected...otherwise the player will send signals (cant remember the name of the copy protect...blah) to the outport jacks, and the signal will be scrambled, which the recorder will record, or refuse to record.

Some blindly record the garbage, while others will refuse to record, mentioning the disc is copy protected. So yeah, basically Samijbal is correct, unless the dvd being copied doesn't have any protection on it (as a already backed up copy, etc)

Sabro

PS. Macrovision Copy Protect is the name of it, finally remembered heh

Actually it isn't a separate signal that the player sends, but rather a large, wide negative-going pulse in the vertical retrace portion of the video signal. TVs can still display the video because they're more forgiving, but digitizing a signal with macrovision is nearly futile.

The recorder is designed to sense this negative macrovision pulse and disable recording ...usually with an accompanying error screen.

You need to strip that pulse from the timing. The best way is with a TBC. Another, cheaper way, but a way that will probably degrade your video somewhat, is with a "clarifier" or "stabilizer". The reason it degrades it is because it filters out that negative pulse, but no filter is perfect and it'll end up removing some of the legitimate fiveo information too.

A TBC is different. It doesn't filter - it removes the entire timing, buffers the video, and installs clean, pure, precise timing. In this process it removes any copy protection too. But ...for this quality you pay a price. A decent TBC for home use will cost at least about $300.

[KennyV37]

I'll be dubbing other non copyright protected DVD's like say hockey games that i've taped over the years that I am transferring to DVD with the recorder.

I won't be able to play this DVD on the player and record it on the recorder now? I don't understand this. If I hook up the player to the the output jacks then to the input jacks of the recorder, I can't dub from the player?

I'll try it on my own and see anyway for I can't see how it couldn't work. I'll just waste a disc finding out.

[freestyler]

Another way you can do it is by acquiring a Macrovision-free DVD player and playing the discs through that.

[gshelley61]

I'll be dubbing other non copyright protected DVD's like say hockey games that i've taped over the years that I am transferring to DVD with the recorder.

I won't be able to play this DVD on the player and record it on the recorder now? I don't understand this. If I hook up the player to the the output jacks then to the input jacks of the recorder, I can't dub from the player?

I'll try it on my own and see anyway for I can't see how it couldn't work. I'll just waste a disc finding out.

If they are not copyright protected, then you can do it no problem.

[samijubal]

The copies will come out better if you just copy the videotape again instead of copying the DVD copy of the videotape. Every time something is copied some signal is lost, copying from DVD to DVD and being processed twice is going to give substantially more digital artificats in the picture.