Is it possible to burn a dvd without encoding? Two dvd drive

[kvance]

I got a quick question.

Lets say I make a back up copy of a movie on my PC using DVD shrink to take off the macrovision and to compress it.

Could I get a pc with two DVD drives, one burner + one player and make an exact replica of that burned dvd without having to encode it again?

Meaning, I put the burned back up in my DVD player only drive and then put a blank media in my PC DVD Burner and then use a program like Nero to make an exact copy of it?

It takes too long to encode it again and if the pc could just burn as it reads off of the other drive it could save tons of time.

Thanks for any answers.

[kvance]

Also, I know that you can make a back up of a back up without ripping it, but if i have two dvd drives on my pc, can i just use the two in tandem so I dont have to save anything in a temp file?

[freestyler]

Yes you sure can.

It's called "On The Fly" copying and Nero will do it.

[bugster]

Yes you sure can.

It's called "On The Fly" copying and Nero will do it.

Yes you can as freestyler says, but many people, including myself, have found it to be unreliable. Usuaully better to rip the disk to your HD 1st. Use DVDdecrpyter to rip it to an ISO, then us it to write the ISO back to the new disk.

[freestyler]

I use the same method you've described, Bugster and it works flawlessly.

ISO Read > ISO Write on my Nec 1300a

I can't come up with any excuse to burn anything on the fly. I despise making coasters and question the data integrity of such "successful" burns.

I still have scars from back in the days when CD burners didn't have Buffer Underrun Protection and I tried burnin on the fly.

[Cobra]

I use Nero to do this, and I just uncheck the "Quick Copy" box. Nero creates an image file first, then automatically burns it. Once it is done, it deletes the image file. Just like an "on-the-fly" burn, but a little slower and a lot more reliable!

[jimmalenko]

I use the same method you've described, Bugster and it works flawlessly.

ISO Read > ISO Write on my Nec 1300a

I concur with the ISO Read / ISO Write method.

I still have scars from back in the days when CD burners didn't have Buffer Underrun Protection and I tried burnin on the fly.

I remember those days well. I had a 4X CD burner, which I paid $300 for. Burn-proof was a pipedream and I used to get buffer underruns as soon as I did anything else on the PC. Heck, I used to get buffer underruns without doing anything else on the PC.

Those were the days ...

[Gurm]

You sure can just copy a copy. Use Nero or whatever program you normally use to burn data discs, and hit "copy disc".

Don't do it "on the fly", but there's no need to "rip" the disc since there's no protection on the copy.