It's time to burn...

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

After much to-ing and fro-ing across the Internet, downloading various programs with mixed effect, I have successfully burned a copy of a copy-protected DVD with my new DVD burner in the laptop. Not much of an achievement for most of you, but it feels good. Yarr!

I found neither the Dell-packaged software nor Nero 6 could get around the copy protection, so eventually I found a way by getting DVDFab Decrypter to convert it to a bunch of .vob and other weird extensioned files in a VIDEO_TS folder. Then I got CloneDVD2 to take the VIDEO_TS files, go through the whole thing, select the stuff to include/exclude and then burn it. CloneDVD2 is a 21 day trial, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Anyone know an easier way of doing this?

4 comments to this post

Anonymous said...

Is it a dual layer burner? if so you shoulnt have to compress it. DVDtoOne is a free program that does it too

nick

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:37:00 PM  
Pat said...

Nah, not a dual layer. But I'll try out DVDtoOne for sure. Thanks!

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:48:00 PM  
Brad said...

I have an easier way: buy the damn DVD, or just download it. :P

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 2:55:00 PM  
Anonymous said...

DVD shrink is the bestest.

Use it all the time, or did, but have a dual layer drive now.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:19:00 PM  

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