Hey all, I recently had a huge stash of my DVDs stolen, so I bought a DVD burner, so I can copy the ones I have, and will get to replace the ones I don't have anymore. But I can't copy because they are copy-protected. Anyone know of any free programs I can get for this? Appreciate the help.

 

If you're using a Mac, I can help, otherwise, sorry...

Disclaimer: Neither BurstAneurysm, nor ScionLife condones illegal copying of DVDs.


Mactheripper will crack the encryption
Roxio Popcorn will take a dual layer disc and compress to fit on a standard 4.7GB DVD-R
MTR is free, Popcorn is not, but can be downloaded from certain *ahem* places...

 

I dont think its illegal if he is just copying to for personal use but if he was selling them then that would be a no no..... but yeah I need to get a program to do the same again too since I whiped my hard drive clean and started over.....

 

Yeah, I'm a PC guy. I guess I just like viruses and custom PC's. Oh, and making copies of my dvd's.

 

It's still illegal... you're just not likely to get caught.

"Infringement without monetary gain" is the key phrase.

I would never copy DVDs...

 

yeah...but I just wanna copy the DVD's I have so that I can watch the copies and leave the originals put up so they don't get jacked again...what's wrong with that?? Seriously man.

 

you can call it "backing up" you dvd files
Nero is a great program to do this stuff, ive used others but nero seems to be the best to burn anything

 

Yeah, I have Nero. It's cool and all, but it still won't let you copy the copyright protected DVD's, and that's what I'm trying to accomplish here. 'Cuz who knows when a hard drive could go out, and having it copied onto discs is a lot more concrete than having them on a hard drive anyway. Thanks for the info though.

 

try dvd fab platinum for the copyright stuff.. then nero to burn

 

i used to use a freeware program called DVD shrink. It worked great, but I don't know if its still available.

 

i used to use dvd shrink too, used to work great until it didnt work lol

 

my biggest problem is I only have one DVD drive, so I have to rip to hard drive THEN burn to disc, and I can't find a free program to burn from HD to disc. Does DVD shrink do this? I appreciate your help.

 

i use dvd fab to rip the dvd onto the HD, then nero to burn onto a disc, i also only have one dvd drive
i think dvd shrink just shrinks the dvd so that it can fit onto a writable 4.7gb disc, not 100% sure though

 

okay, well, i've tried to burn from nero to a disc and it doesn't work for some reason. Anything I may be doing wrong???

 

are you using the expert mode?

 

I'm honestly not sure. I know that when I go to Nero SmartStart, and go to Copy DVD, I can't select the folder where the DVD rip is located, it will only let me select between my 2 Disc Drives, which are one CD-ROM and one DVD Burner.

 

dont use the Copy DVD.
Do you see the bottom right where there are three buttons?, one with a fire, one with the two dudes, and one with a white green arrow thing.
Click on the two dudes and they should be in suits.
Then go to Photo and Video.
On the bottom left there should be a scroll.
Scroll around and look for Burn DVD Video Files.
Then you are able to search for the files you ripped and burn.
hope this helps

 

I see the white/green arrow thing, and the fire, but there's an extra circle that has nothing in it on mine. It's the software that came with the burner. Do I not have the right program?

 

Hrm... maybe you have the older version.., look around and see if there is Burn DVD Video Files. If there isnt, i dont know what to do lol, maybe look for an update for the program or something.

 

Nothing's wrong with it man... I'm just giving you a hard time. We have a computer packed with hard drives that does nothing but "backup" DVDs. Copy Away!