One click button to copy DVDs?

[suharsh]

I see lot of guides (on this site) on converting from one format to other and burning - wanted to know if there are any softwares (freeware or commercial) that have a one button copy functionality. Like in CDs, using Nero you can copy from cd to a cd-r (or cd-rw). Of course, this question assumes that the source dvd is 4.7gb or less.

I mean I am looking for a simple way to backup the dvds - even if let's say the source is 8gb, I don't mind burning them into two dvds as long as not much of conversion or half a dozen softwares are not involved.

Thanks in advance.

[ricky1756]

theres no one button method, but, you cant get much simpler than dvdshrink, and then burn with the app of your choice

[macleod]

I doubt that we'll ever get to a true "one button" backup. The reason being is that folks backup movies differently. Some like movie only, some like full menus, but remove some audio types, some back up as much as they can without any quality loss and remove everything they can to get to that point.

Me personally, I backup my dvd's movie only and include the english subtitle. A number of posters here will say that they like everything, or back up a movie but keep chinese subtitles (because its there native language OR because they are wanting to learn to speak/read chinese).

Anyway, short answer is it probably wont happen (although it would be great to have a "settings" option that would ALWAYS backup, say movie only and english 6 channel and english subtitles or whatever the user selects initially).

The closest thing that I see is, as the previous poster said, dvdshrink. I actually use shrinkiso along with that (I have a dvd rom and a dvdr drive). I put my movie in the top and a dvdr in the bottom drive. load it up , come back in 3'ish hours and it is ready to watch. Cant recommend dvdsrink and shrinkiso enough.

[BobK]

DVDXCopy Xpress is probably the closest thing to a one-button-click. But it's not free and DVDShrink works just as well.

[Solarjetman]

As previosuly said, there is no real one button copy. The major reason is commercial DVDs hold ~9 GB of data while blank DVDr's only hold 4.7 GB. In other words its like trying to fit two gallons of water into a one gallon bucket.

Since there is too much data, something has to give. You have to take out some of the data, thus you do not have an exact backup. And since its not an exact copy, a one button program can't exist in the classical sense. If you did have a one button copy, it would have to take the same data out from every disk, and since every disk is different, that may produce bad copies.

However, I am pretty sure Nero will make copies of DVDr disks just like CDs. I can't check right now because my copy of nero is on the fritz. It somehow got corrupted and says I should re-install. I haven't really had any need for it so I never got around to re-installing.

[suharsh]

Thanks to all for the replies. I guess, I will go ahead and buy one.