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I've just rented out 3 dvds

BillieTheBotBillieTheBot Posts: 8,721 Bot
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and I want to copy them

How do I do it because nothing is working.

Is it possible they are protected so you can't do it?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    grab a program called dvd shrink, which will copy and re-encode the dvd's so that they will fit onto a single layer disc
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    gah double post!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    DVDDecrypter too :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    When I play these DVDs it tells me to avoid the copy protection!

    Will they know if I've copied them?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yes, they will know and they will rightly hunt you down.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    You being serious or sarcy there? :p

    Arggghhh, do I need to rush and watch all these in 2 days or can I copy them?

    Its not like I'm gonna sell em or out!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    naughty naughty!!
    There are ways around the copy protection though - a little bit of software will bypass it then you want something like cdClone (or cloneCD, im not sure which) to copy it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ok, so like the lovely Gav :heart: sent me that dvdshrink and dvdcypter program and I've managed to copy them.

    The memory on my laptop is at an all time low though.

    Also, how do you know if your laptop can write on dvds cuz I kinda wanna put all my videos and shit on dvds to create more memory.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    If you've got a rewriter then it says "RW" in white in a black rectangle on the drive. Most laptops are just CD-RW and DVD playback though
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It just says compact disc rewritable :(

    Poo.

    Can I not just put these videos on normal discs?
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    RW means "rewriter". It's a drive that can write on discs that can be "cleared" and written in again, which I don't think is what you want. Check if your drive can record on DVDs (Does it say something like DVD-R?). If not, no, CDs won't do.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Indrid Cold wrote:
    RW means "rewriter". It's a drive that can write on discs that can be "cleared" and written in again, which I don't think is what you want. Check if your drive can record on DVDs (Does it say something like DVD-R?). If not, no, CDs won't do.

    dvd+rw-logo.gif

    The logo i was desribing is more or less standard across DVD writers, that's why i mentioned it, You *can* Sorta put them onto CD's, but the video quality would take a major hit, and you'd need a dvd player that can play "Video CD's". If you can afford it, get an external DVD-RW drive for your laptop then you can burn proper DVD's :)
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    What I meant is that she doesn't need an RW, a simple R will do.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    neither of these will make a difference anyway because the films are DVDs! what she needs is a DVDR/RW
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Indrid Cold wrote:
    What I meant is that she doesn't need an RW, a simple R will do.


    Can you even buy non DVD-Rewriters ?
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