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normr · Apr 14, 2004, 10:44 AM

I d/led their software last night which allows you to try it one time in demo mode before buying it and let me tell you, it worked perfectly, I even burned my movie onto a DVD-RW in case it didn't work that way I wouldn't have a DVD coaster.

I'm buying it, I've been waiting to see if DVD X-copy would ever make it to the Mac, now I see it won't, so this came along as a complete suprise, I was reading some site where some people were talking about software like this and this was mentioned.

I took one of my movie DVD's and just followed the prompts and it came out perfect, both video and audio. Yes it took about 3 hours to read and write, but it was worth it. I guess I'll have to get one of the new e-macs with an 8X DVD write speed. I'm going to check with them to see if externals work too, that way I can buy the LaCie DVD burner.

Way to go Velan!

Here is the site:

http://fastdvdcopy.com/

banninated68 · Nov 18, 2004, 10:47 PM

I used it and it made a perfectly good blank DVD into a total coaster.

- Rob

banninated68 · Nov 19, 2004, 07:24 AM

Tried it again, what a piece of ****. Avoid this software, ti makes a disc that isn't even a video disc, that's ufll of 3.4 gigs but apparently ZERO items.

- Rob

banninated68 · Nov 19, 2004, 12:48 PM

Anyone else give this a try? I'm not sure what the hell I did wrong, it seemed to 'work' fine, it's just that the 'copy' is a dvd filled with 3.4 gigs of SOMETHING, that doesn't show up at all. 0 items. Yet 3.4 gigs used. WTF?

- $

nJm · Nov 20, 2004, 05:37 PM

I've been using it a bit (a friend gave it to me). It has worked almost perfectly for the 5 DVDs I've tried. One I removed the special features of the disc and when you played the disc it came up with a splash screen saying the special features were removed, but then it just stopped. To play the movie I had to use VLC on my Mac to manually select the title/chapter.

Another disc simply didn't burn to DVD. However 3 discs have copied perfectly when I left it on default settings. This is using an iBook G4 and a USB2/Firewire LG burner.

banninated68 · Nov 20, 2004, 09:34 PM

Where are the settings? I only see one panel that slides down to select which hard drive I'd like to use for conglomerating or something.

- Rob

bmedina · Nov 21, 2004, 12:08 AM

Wait, so these people are trying to make money off of a DVD copying utility?

Randman · Nov 21, 2004, 12:20 AM

There's Roxio's Popcorn these days as well.

bmedina · Nov 21, 2004, 02:40 PM

Originally posted by Randman:
There's Roxio's Popcorn these days as well.

Which doesn't do encrypted DVDs, making it pretty useless.

demograph68 · Nov 21, 2004, 02:49 PM

Originally posted by bmedina:
Which doesn't do encrypted DVDs, making it pretty useless.

Try MactheRipper.

banninated68 · Nov 21, 2004, 05:05 PM

Originally posted by demograph68:
Try MactheRipper.

But even then, how do you burn it as a decent usable DVD? I've used handbrake, and sure, it's okay if I want to hook up my laptop to the TV and stereo, but how do you burn such a file?

- Rob

demograph68 · Nov 22, 2004, 05:30 AM

Use MactheRipper to strip the DVD of its CSS encryption. You'll get a Video_TS folder. It cannot be burned however because it'll probably be larger than what a DVD-R can hold. Use Popcorn to compress it to fit. Burn DVD with Toast. It works very well. Before Popcorn, I was using DVD2one. I have made backups of at least 25 DVD's so far and only failed at it once.

bmedina · Nov 23, 2004, 05:16 PM

Originally posted by demograph68:
Try MactheRipper.

Which, of course, is free, and has more functionality than the products you have to pay for.

That's my whole point: it's silly to sell DVD ripping software because 1) there's a lot of free competition, and 2) incorporating a key feature (CSS decryption) will get you into legal trouble. So you end up selling a product without a critical feature competing against free products that do have that feature.

We've sold one such product at our store, and it failed pretty miserably. I don't see how Roxio's software will fare any better.

Meritocracy · 11:34 PM

Originally posted by bmedina:
Which, of course, is free, and has more functionality than the products you have to pay for.

That's my whole point: it's silly to sell DVD ripping software because 1) there's a lot of free competition, and 2) incorporating a key feature (CSS decryption) will get you into legal trouble. So you end up selling a product without a critical feature competing against free products that do have that feature.

We've sold one such product at our store, and it failed pretty miserably. I don't see how Roxio's software will fare any better.

MacTheRipper is free, but it's functionality is limited to purely being a ripper. It doesn't compress, therefore, it doesn't compete with Mac products one would have to purchase (Popcorn �Burns as well� /DVD2ONE / DVDremaster etc.) to accomplish this goal. There's no free options, ala DVDShrink, on the mac side which encompass the whole process. The only one that does, FastDVDCopy, is unfortunately both overpriced, and isn't terribly reliable. In that respect, I'd agree that selling this particular application (FastDVDCopy) is a bit silly; at least until it actually performs as advertised.