Backing Up DVD's
 

Anybody know which product (Free or otherwise) is good for backing up my DVD's?

Im looking for something that can compress as well, but thats only if i start running out of disk space.

Thanks..

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DVD Shrink :)

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Is it good? Have you used it? Are there any better?

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DVDshrink is brilliant....

SOME dvd's are more heavily protected however.

On occasion I've also used dvddecrypter http://www.dvddecrypter.com/

And put the output of THAT into dvd shrink.

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Superb - Will try them.

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The best things to use (and I've tried pretty much everything) are:

DVD Decrypter for ripping the DVD - http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
DVD2ONE for compressing the DVD to fit on a normal DVDR - http://www.dvd2one.com/
Nero for burning

Takes me approximately 20 mins from start to finish to rip/compress and burn a DVD including ALL content.

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On the subject of this is there a good simple program to compress dvd's (or divz,xvid...) to PDA size ie 1-200 meg. Havge tried a few with poor results.

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DVD2ONE will let you specify the target filesize.

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cheers will look at that when I finish work.

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I like the sound of that, time to play a bit later, is there much / any loss in quality ?? never used anything like it before

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I've not noticed any picture degradation whatsoever on any DVD, even with all the menu's, features and soundtracks (AC3 etc)

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Damn - good one Bifta - just tried DVDShrink and it worked a treat though - but i will try your way as well just to see which one is better.

Ta.

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Just tried DVD shrink on a recently purchases DVD .............did not work diagonal lines across it :confused:

Any ideas

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Yeah, use what I recommended, first DVD Decrypter to rip the movie (and the protection out), then DVD2ONE to compress it.

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While im here, i have a home movie in Div-X format - (Please no jokes the wife gets edgy :D), if i wanted to convert that to DVD - any suggestions?

And if i got a DVD-RW or +RW disc, would that allow me to burn on that DVD, then watch it on my player, then wipe it and remaster a new one on the same disk?

Cos eh - that would be sweet.