Quick question...

[tsantsa]

Hi there. You peeps are quite helpful but I have a quick question for you. I have had one guy answer in the affirmative and one answer in the negative to this question: Can I use something like Nero 6 to burn a backup to another dvdr. Meaning can I do a 1:1 copy of a dvd to another. both are dvd-r's. One of the ones I want to do this with is a dvd i authored from downloaded clips. the other is a backup of a movie that I need to backup to another dvdr.

I don't want to try it and waste a blank since i have rw's to try it with, so I thought I would ask.

[tsantsa]

I guess all i want to know is if i must do the whole ripping and recoding thing or not since it was done once already.

[macleod]

yes you can do a 1:1 backup, but without knowing anything about your setup, it might end up failing (rading/writing from two optical drives at the same time). Its the same concept as when you would do cd copies.

Unless you just cant wait or you dont have any hard drive space. you might want to use dvddecrypter to burn the dvd as an image and then burn it back to another DVD-R (if the DVD is under 4.3 gig). For the other store bought DVD, you'll need to use a compression program to convert it, like dvdshrink.

Hope that helps, now a question for you. What's a "peep"?

[tsantsa]

peeps: the community of which on feels he is connected to. ("My peeps showed me how to burn dvds!"), Slang for 'people'.

So, let me get this straight, when i originally decrypted the store bought dvd, and backed it up, the ensuing backup was thus re-encrypted? If that's the case then shouldn't the dvd of clips be encrypted? I must be messing up some of my knowledge because I don't seem to recall how this works!

[thayne]

I would just copy the entire VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD to the HD, then burn it from the HD. You dont have to rip it again, DVDr's are not encrypted.

[macleod]

no, I was saying use dvddecrypter as a ripper and not a de-encrypter. If it has already been de-encrypted and then burned to dvdr, you are good to go.

geezer - people who hear other people talk in what appears to be technically english, but have no clue as to what they are saying :P

[poopyhead]

you might want to use dvddecrypter to burn the dvd as an image and then burn it back to another DVD-R (if the DVD is under 4.3 gig).

don't really need to "rip" because the DVD-R isn't encrypted. windows explorer will be fine.

For the other store bought DVD, you'll need to use a compression program to convert it, like dvdshrink.

i think all tsantsa wants to do is make a copy of a copy. in this case, there wouldn't be a problme of not fitting on a DVD-R because the source is a DVD-R to begin with...so, source can't be bigger than 4.38 GB.

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@tsantsa,

when you rip/encode (or transcode) the original commercial DVD onto a DVD-R, all encryption has been removed by the ripper.

as for 1:1 copy, yes...you can do that...as with CD to CD copy. however, you risk buffer underruns if the reading drive isn't reading fast enough. the reading drive may not be able to catch up with the burner.

best bet is just to copy the files over onto your HDD and burn it from there.

[tsantsa]

So again, to get this straight: Once something is on a dvd-r and playable in your standalone player, it is not encrypted no matter what the original source was. Be it DVD or avi, once on dvdr i can do a 1:1 copy. Correct?

I know that it is correct at least with dl'd movie anyway cuz I just completed a successful 1:1 copy of the one dvdr that is made up of clips dl'd from the net.

[tsantsa]

We replied at almost the same time poops. you confirmed my above post. I thought i was correct with the encryption thought, but was just checkin with my peeps. 8)

I thank you gents for answers to my 'quick question!'