Hardbopjazz Posted June 3, 2005 Report Posted June 3, 2005 (edited) I posted this in the audio fourm but didn't get any feed back. I am trying here now. I have a DVD+RW recorder. Someone gave me a few DVD-R disc, will they work with a DVD+RW recorder? I tried but, it just spits them out. I am guessing that it won't work. Anyone here know the answer? Edited June 3, 2005 by Hardbopjazz Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted June 4, 2005 Report Posted June 4, 2005 No, they will not. The entire burnable DVD industry is so confusing. They've come out with so many formats, none of which are backwards or even sideways compatable with each other, that the consumer is really out in the cold. Quote
kinuta Posted June 4, 2005 Report Posted June 4, 2005 They should play on your pc. If so maybe you could recopy by connecting your pc to the dvd recorder. I've done this to copy Pal and US Region 1 discs into Japan region 2. The results have been excellent. Quote
fent99 Posted June 6, 2005 Report Posted June 6, 2005 Anyone recommend software for copying DVDs? Just got a PC with a recorder... Quote
Kevin Bresnahan Posted June 6, 2005 Report Posted June 6, 2005 (edited) The best way is to download the free shareware program DVDShrink (http://www.dvdshrink.org/). Using this, there are several on-line tutorials. This program will allow you to re-author the movie which bascially means stripping off all the "junk" (YMMV) and leave behind just the movie, which is very important to minimize compression. Once you use DVDShrink to create files on your hardrive, you simply use your burning software (set to "data dvd") and burn the two folders that DVDShrinik created to a blank. It's very easy. Kevin Edited June 6, 2005 by Kevin Bresnahan Quote
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