Backing up DVD's

[Baloki]

I own several DVD's which seem not to be very resistant to scratches so I was wondering is there any way I can copy them to my hard drive to keep as a backup and that allows me to watch them so I don't have to risk the DVD itself?

Thanks guys

[Endless]

Nero, and I'm pretty sure Alcohol120%, etc... all have a DVD copy feature and a virtual burner that writes to an image that you can mount.

[Baloki]

Nero just dies saying that the disc is copy protected, not sure about Alcohol120

[Mindflare]

I'm not sure what it's called, but there is a program out there that allows burning software to ignore that copy protection. My ex roomate used it to copy a bunch of DVDs at one point.

[NM]

DVD Shrink is what you need. It'll rip any DVD to a location on your hard drive. You can also burn them to a blank DVD disc if you have a DVDWriter.

You can download it from <a href="http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html">here</a>

[Endless]

Well, I use Nero 5.5.10.42, I put in a video DVD published by Universal, selected the virtual drive (image recorder), hit copy DVD. It asked me for a location to save at, and started just dandy. Maybe it's just that my DVD drive is leet and ignores the copy protection crap (like the new "CDs" that normally ask you to install their player, I can rip them just fine on that drive ). Maybe your Nero is too recent aswell.

[Baloki]

I think that is the reason because when I had Nero 5 it worked fine but now I have 6 express so I can use the DVD burn function and its so much more locked down

[Samuraid]

DVD Decrypter is one of the better free programs you can get. You can copy and burn DVD ISOs, extract and decrypt individual files and streams from a video DVD, and a lot of other stuff.

http://www.dvddecrypter.com/

If you want to mount images, check out:

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/port...tegory&catid=5