Page 1 of way to copy dvd`s to cdr has anyone tried this?????

There is a method of copy dvd`s to cdrs according to the following website:

www6.tomshardware.com/video/00q3/000913/dvd-04.html

Havn`t heard of anyone trying this one so dont know of any succes (or failure for that matter). If anyone has tried it or heard anything about send a message back. Did it work or not, was the quality as good as they say it should be and how long did it take to copy a disk?.


Hope it works ok... and helps out anyone that wishes to do copies of `their` own disks.

Also im watching big brother right now on channel 4 i hope that lesbian anna wins (lol). Boo nasty nick.

This item was edited on Saturday, 2nd December 2000, 00:36

MPEG4 is actually DivX and will NEVER work on any standalone player.
Quality is great for the compression but you really need a 1000MHz PC to get great performance at DVD resolutions

Read this for normal VCD creation.

http://www.dvdrip.ws/

Excellent guides that work!

does this method allow you to copy dvd`s that you can play on a normal dvd player (by normal what i mean is that you dont need a computer dvd rom to play them). If so do they fit onto a cdr when you follow one of these methods and if so (more importantly which method is the best and easiest to use). Cheers for the reply

STEVE

no, the MPEG-4 standard requires a PC. it was originally created by microsoft to copyprotect video files but it was hacked a few days after release.

decoding requires a lot of processing power (alot more than dvd needs) so it will be very unlikely that a normal dvd player will be released that can play them.

It is possible to convert the dvd to this format and store it on cd-r, but it lses some quality in the conversion, also a normal 90minute movie takes about 24hours to convert/compress for this format (and that`s with a 1000MHz processor)