I was wondering if anyone could help me. I want to backup my movies on to my computer, friends borrow them and the disks come back scratched or i want to watch them while they have them. Does anyone know of any good free software todo this? i dont know what to look for!
Backing up DVD's is, I'm afraid, a topic I'm almost certain bit-tech won't permit. Going on the basis that they're going to delete that thread if so, I'll drop a name out there, and if you're lucky you'll see the post before the thread goes deady bye bye. http://www.doom9.org/ That has everything you'll need to know. admins, if you're angry at me posting that/don't want me to do it in future, please say, and I won't, just don't banz0r me
This has been covered a few times here but if you want to back up your dvd's to dvd5 type discs (standard 4.7gb dvds) then use something like dvd shrink, if you want to backup to double layer discs dvd9 then you can just rip them (using something like dvd fab decrypter) to your hard drive and copy them to your blank dvd without re-encoding or transcoding. Anyway a good place for guides is www.doom9.org, but be aware what you are going to do maybe illegal in your country.
ok thanks guys. I was trying to make it clear that I dont want to illeagally rip dvd's just to back up the few i currently have, I hope the mods understand this from my point of view but i can also understand why this thread will no be permitted, is there a way i can delete this thread to save them the hassle?
Backing up copyrighted DVD's isn't legal IIRC, not in the UK at least. So for the purposes of this thread we can be sure that these are say...wedding videos, or something, authored by a friend.
how did you know? hehe one of them is actually footage of the summer ball at uni last year, its carange lol
dvd shrink creates VOB's for example right? is there a way of making these into AVI's so my friends can then copy the video of the ball onto this computer? or can you copy VoB's?
dvdshrink will either create vobs ready for burning to a dvd-r or create an .iso image file for burining to a dvd-r if you make vobs you can then use autogk to convert them to xvid or divx if you want avi's
is there anyway of gettin dvd shrink to compress the file to a size that you want? if not its ok, i guess as a back up having it at the same size is good im just curious.
coolio, thankyou hamish, i didnt realise there was so much to know about this, i had a look at auto gk, i got so confused and in a massive muddle edit: tried that, still outputted a 619mb file, which is what it said it was on the disk, it hasnt actually compressed it :S
619mb of vobs on the disc? why the hell you want to compress that? its teeny already autogk is eaaaaaaaaaasy, choose the dvd files outputted from dvdshrink as the input and hit go
IIRC (here in Belgium) it isn't illegal to back up cd's (and all copyrighted material) for personal use, but lending it out to a friend is If you read the small letters on the back you should know that And I wanted to second (or third) the DVD shrink program
ah i lend the original to my friends not the backups! the files i were backing up were episodes of sg1, 5 on a disc, hence the file size! my arguement was that dvd shrink doesnt actually shrink the dvd, it just makes an exact copy of it, thats not shrinking is it?
it does shrink the dvd, it takes a ~9gig dual layer dvd9 disc and will re-encode it to fit a 4.5gig dvd5 disc however you're only doing one ep at a time so it decides that cos it fits into 4.5gig already theres no need to re-encode tv eps are best done as xvids anyway imo having just a few eps per disc sucks so just use dvd shrink or dvd decrypter to get the plain vobs off the disc then autogk to make them into xvids
yup i saw where i was going wrong, i was trying to use standard GK not auto, major confusion going on, my goosey brain cant cope lol
