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I have recently bought a DVD burner but I dont know how to burn a DVD onto DVD-R. I have been told it is possible if I remove the extra features material as it will not fit onto one DVD-R disk. What software do I use? how do I do it? Has anybody been able to do this?

I dont actually have a DVD burner yet ( not quite reached my price pint ) so the following is purley what ive learnt along the way.

Youll need to get hold of DECSS ( DVD Material is protected by CSS encryption to stop ppl form simply copying them like CDs ). The DECSS algorithm is in fact illegal ( i think ) so finding it will take some ( but not much ) diggiing. You can then use DECSS to "RIP" ( copy ) your DVD to your Hard Disc ( or if you have a fast enough machine stright to the DVD-R ) and then onto the DVD-R.

Hope that helps - Shout if there anything else :-)

G

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http://www.vcdhelp.com is another good site for info on "backing up" DVDs, whether you want to copy them to VCD, SVCD, DiVX, or DVD-R.

Suffice to say you can only do a straight DVD-R backup if the original disc has a capacity of 4.7 Gigabytes or less. If it has more than that, you`ll either need to remove some of the content, spread it across 2 DVD-Rs (if you don`t mind changing discs half way through), or (as a last resort) re-compress the video so it takes up less space. The VCDHelp site will tell you how to do all of the above.

Mike

This item was edited on Friday, 6th September 2002, 18:27