I have read of some people who have had success with DVD Copyware" and some with problems. My own experience is one of fairly consistant success. I use it to back up a fairly big library of my children's titles as they are the most often played over and over and the most often scratched.

Most of the titles will copy just the movie to a single disk and you can can pretty much click and go have dinner. Other titles need two disks either for a large movie file or if you want all the extras.

I haven't had one single problem with either method and DVD Copyware.
I am very impressed with preserving menues accros two disks, something I could never do with DVD shrink but which works perfectly with DVD Copyware.

I did email their tech support with two questions. One involved reading from a virtual drive (a scratched disk I had would read from neither dvd shrink or dvd copyware but would read from dvd decrypter) and another question had to do with testing a especially complex title by mounting it before burning (saving the time of confirming with a r/w). Both times I received immediate and quite knowledable responses from Redxpress. They have also pointed me to regular updates which considering how many different dvd movie structures there are seems prudent.

I just mention this because I have read scattered here several good and some bad reports. Some of the bad reports involve people deciding (why?) not to install nero or with windows me machines. I have xp and NO problems.

I still use DVD Shrink, but I encountered some (actually a lot of) problems with DVD Shrink compressing animations, especially large movie files ones with normal and extended versions embedded, which really skip and blur at moderate compression. Going across two disks with DVD Shrink seems crazy after using a program like DVD Copyware which preserves the menus and places them on both disks.

Although the US distributer seems to have dropped out due to being sued by the movie industry (and I think this shows they saw this program as a threat) for providing support you can still get this on buy.com and ecost. my guess is they are getting it right from the manufacturer which in my experience gives good support over email.