Methods of Copying

[scaronelly]

i havent been to the forum in at least 4 or 5 months - i was just wondering if any of my methods are out of date or if there are better ways of doing things

-dvddecrypter read iso then write iso for dvd5's
-dvddecrypter rip and auther in maestro for dvd9's with main video and audio small enough to fit on dvdr (chapter integration included)
-dvd2dvdr 1.5 for movies with main video and audio too large to fit on dvdr
-ifoedit for very large movies - split to two dvd-r's and retain everything

thanks

[Ducatti20]

For those of us who are lazy bastards DVDXCOPY and Express are the way to go. The money spent is well worth not having to explain to my wife how to use 3 or 4 different progs to keep her from trashing my 4X media!
BTW, have had 0 complaints backing up with these progs, although xpress is kinda a waste, xcopy allows me to pull out what ever I want to keep single disk anyway...

[jdizzy40]

I think you are going the long route to back-up movies. Three ways I go depending on back-up.

DVD XCopy Express or
DVD Shrink or
DVD Decrypter,DVD2One, Nero

I've had great results using any the above methods!

[FulciLives]

There is a new program (still in BETA stages) called DVDFab that works like DVDXCOPY in that it splits a DVD9 over two DVD recordable discs in order to make a complete back-up without loss of quality. The nice thing about DVDFab is that it is FREEWARE

So far the newest BETA version has worked with two DVD9 discs that I have tested it with.

RELATED LINK: DVDFab website

I still think that the DVD Decrypter method (ISO rip and burn) is best for DVD5 discs. If you want to compress a DVD9 to a single DVD recordable then I have had mostly good results with DVD2ONE but of course a full mpeg-2 re-encode can't be beat but DVD2ONE is quick and fast and often times the quality is very good.

RELATED LINK: DVD2ONE website

In any event welcome back

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[MrSnake]

The time of "big authoring tools" is over.
IMO DVDXCopy is not worth the money either.

In case of DVD9's I only backup the main movie.
I use DVD2One or DVDShrink, it does a wonderfull job on DVD9's, even when the main movie is too big to fit on one DVD-R.
Qualitywise; I don't see difference with the original DVD.

DVD Decrypter: rip entire disc to HD: 5-15mins
DVD2One: select your movie title and languages: 10mins
Nero: burn it: 15mins @ 4X
That's 30-40 minutes or 1 hour, no way you can do that with an "authoring tool".