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Hi,

I`m thinking of buying a Mini Disc player & was wondering if anyone knows if you can record direct from a DVD player. I have quite a few music DVD`s which I`d love to convert.

Thanks in advance.

Not sure about that. I use software to rip the soundtrack of DVDs to MP3s or WAV and then transfer them to my Minidisc. The url for the s/w is:-

http://www.imtoo.com/dvd-audio-ripper.html

if you`re interested. It costs a little, but its very quick and easy to use.

http://www.electromancer.com/artists/flip_martian

not sure about recording from dvds but i use my dvd player to record onto my mini disk, playing normal cds, using an optical/digital lead, always get thosee two mixed up.

i just press play on dvd player and record on md.

I`ve got my DVD player`s Left and Right audio outputs plugged into the AUX input on my hi-fi so I can record CD`s straight to Mini Disc. I imagine recording from DVD should be exactly the same.

I think you may have problems in doing a digital copy from DVD due to the copyright restrictions, but analogue should be ok.

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I think you may have problems in doing a digital copy from DVD due to the copyright restrictions, but analogue should be ok

Yeah that`s true. On my hi-fi, I can copy an original CD to Mini Disc using the internal CD player but it won`t let me copy anything from a CD-R I`ve made myself. However, using an external player (eg my DVD player) connected to the analogue inputs is no problem. I would guess that connecting the DVD player via the optical input may cause problems as mentioned in the above quote.