Why does it take so long to copy a DVD

[eleetindustries]

I have DVDs i purchased that my family is destroying and i want to make copies of them as back ups. I have DVD X Copy Platinum. I have been told that does everything for you in terms of copying a DVD. how long should the entire process roughly take to copy a regular movie to one blank DVD?

[lumis]

i dont use dvdxcopy, but in my experience it takes about 40 minutes to copy a dual layer disc to a single layer disc.

rip with dvd decrypter, 15 minutes
transcode with dvd2one, 15-20 minutes
burn to dvd+r (12x) with recordnow max, 7 minutes

[steve2713]

DVD X-Copy is the Cat's hairball. Throw it away and use something decent like DVD Shrink (which is free as well). The time it takes is dependent on how fast your computer is, what program you are using, and if you enable features that improve the quality - using features such as Deep Analysis and AEC with DVD Shrink may make a backup go from taking 20 minutes to taking an hour, for example, but it's worth it to increase the picture quality.

For DVDs needing heavy compression I use DVD-RB, but that takes several hours.