DVD-R copy question

[tWoSour]

I need to copy a DVD-R, and I was wondering the best way to do so.

If I copied the video_ts folder from the DVD-R to my hard drive, could I then just burn it to another DVD-R with Toast?

I have a G4 iMac 800MHz 768 RAM 60 GB


Thank you for your help

[pluche]

Put the DVD-R in your DVD writer, open toast, select "others - DVD" ;
drag the DVD-R into Toast and now select "copy"; Toast will make a temporarily copy on your hard disk; when done you remove the DVD-R from the writer and Toast ask for a virgin DVD-R to write on; put it into the writer and the work will be done

There is a small catch however: Toast tends to write files like Desktop DB and Desktop TS to the DVD as well; you have to avoid that because this may cause bad play performance in certain DVD players
one way to achieve that is to copy to a directory, not to the disk or a partition; you do that in the preferences

[WiseWeasel]

If I copied the video_ts folder from the DVD-R to my hard drive, could I then just burn it to another DVD-R with Toast?

That works swell. Make sure you make a new DVD in Toast DVD Mode containing the VIDEO_TS folder, and not a DVD named VIDEO_TS