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pluralrandom question
for my fellow technogeeks
I have been thinking about
buying a DVD burner
primarily to create legal backups
of my DVDs
at the moment
I rip all my music cds
then store the originals away
where they wont get scratch
and
burn mixes of whatever I want to listen to
onto CDR
I was hoping to do the same with my DVDs
but I am getting mixed information on the possibility of this
I understand most burners cant write to the section
of the disk which contains the CES code
that allows the DVD player to decode the movie
one suggestion which was offered
was to use a program to copy and decode the data
then burn it onto a VCD in uncoded form
this is a pain in the ass
because for most movies it requires you to
use two discs
and I dont much like swapping discs in the middle of the movie
now I am thinking
you could decode the data to your harddrive
then import it into an application like Premiere
and write it as new data to a DVD
can anyone think of why this wouldnt work
and/or
suggest another solution to the question
for my fellow technogeeks
I have been thinking about
buying a DVD burner
primarily to create legal backups
of my DVDs
at the moment
I rip all my music cds
then store the originals away
where they wont get scratch
and
burn mixes of whatever I want to listen to
onto CDR
I was hoping to do the same with my DVDs
but I am getting mixed information on the possibility of this
I understand most burners cant write to the section
of the disk which contains the CES code
that allows the DVD player to decode the movie
one suggestion which was offered
was to use a program to copy and decode the data
then burn it onto a VCD in uncoded form
this is a pain in the ass
because for most movies it requires you to
use two discs
and I dont much like swapping discs in the middle of the movie
now I am thinking
you could decode the data to your harddrive
then import it into an application like Premiere
and write it as new data to a DVD
can anyone think of why this wouldnt work
and/or
suggest another solution to the question
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Date: 2002-10-11 11:05 pm (UTC)Importing / exporting / changing formats is probably going to lose quality. Fuck That (TM).
CDs are fine to burn & use the backup, because a CD has a lot more playing/handling. DVDs just need that extra bit of care.
It might be possible to use a DVD burner (not sure which type, there's so many standards) to copy a DVD and play it back. The only problem becomes the cost of the burner & blanks, vs the number of DVDs you'd be likely to kill. $1000 for a burner and a pile of blanks could buy/replace a lot of damaged DVDs.