[orlando12]

ok....

So I just bought an ibook with superdrive at the apple store , and was anxious to start backing up a few of the dvds I have that I am planning to sell on ebay.

I use roxio toast, and just click "copy dvd", and about 35 min later have a dvd copy.

What happens however, is that I ll put in the copied dvd , and it will only play audio, no video, and the audio skips around a whole lot.

The dvd I copied was "seven years in tibet", and the original disc said there was only 4.1 gigs on it, so there should have been enough room on my blank dvd.

What is the proper way to copy a dvd/what did I do wrong??

Thanks for the information!!

-A new , somewhat inexperienced switcher.l

[the_glassman]

I'm pretty sure what you are tying to do is illegal and probably won't receive much help on the forum. (I understand making legit backups, but backing something up and trying to sell the original copy?)
Copying a DVD on the other hand isn't as simple as selecting copy in Toast, DVD's have copy protection (albeit not very good) built in. I'm sure there are ways around that if you look hard enough, you might wants to consider that you most DVD's are bigger then the standard DVD-R disc can hold and will have to find a work around for that as well.

[kafoochy]

What the_glassman said is mostly correct.

Originally posted by the_glassman:
I'm pretty sure what you are tying to do is illegal and probably won't receive much help on the forum. (I understand making legit backups, but backing something up and trying to sell the original copy?)

You can legally make copies of DVDs for yourself if they are only for your personal viewing and will not be distributed or sold. It is called something like time-shifting or space-shifting. You'll receive help on the forums.

The DVD you have is probably encrypted using a variety of security technologies. Since the DVD you want to copy is less than 4.5gb you're in luck. You can use a program like DVDBackup or MacTheRipper 2.0 to remove the encryption. Search versiontracker.com to find these. If you have a DVD greater than 4.5gb (most commercial DVDs today) you'll need a program such as DVD2OneX or FastDVD Copy to compress the video to fit on a single layer disc that your iBook can burn.

For info on DVDBackup and some other links go here:
http://www.wormintheapple.gr/macdvd/DVDbackup.html#faq

[orlando12]

thank you all for the information.

What I was planning on doing was making a backup for myself, and then selling the actually dvd I purchased. I didn't think that was overtly illegal, however, I guess it is.

My simple mind figured I could just copy a dvd like a cd, however, after browsing throug these forums I see it isn't that easy.

Thanks again for the help.

[Nodnarb]

There is a program called Fast DVD Copy and, although it is $99, it works excellent and it makes a dvd copy/backup with the click of 1 button. It also compresses the dvd so it can fit on a single one.

[techtrucker]

It isn't that easy, and it is illegal. Not chastising you, I learned the hard way...not by getting in trouble, just beating my head against the wall trying to copy a DVD. Some googling should come up with alternate methods.

[fr33daddy]

if you do want to copy a DVD you won't be able to get the full DVD on there, because when you decrypt the DVD you also get rid of some of the compression as well, and usually any DVD will be bigger than a blank DVD. So, what you will end up having to do is manually pick and choose which files to put on the DVD, which for what you are wanting to do is only the audio, video, and possibly subtitles. so you won't be able to put menus or special features, but you will have a dvd that will start playing the movie as soon as it loads, which is better than nothing.

[kafoochy]

Originally posted by fr33daddy:
if you do want to copy a DVD you won't be able to get the full DVD on there, because when you decrypt the DVD you also get rid of some of the compression as well, and usually any DVD will be bigger than a blank DVD. So, what you will end up having to do is manually pick and choose which files to put on the DVD, which for what you are wanting to do is only the audio, video, and possibly subtitles. so you won't be able to put menus or special features, but you will have a dvd that will start playing the movie as soon as it loads, which is better than nothing.

If you have a commercial disk that is larger than 4.7gb, when you compress it, any software program, DVD FastCopy or DVD2OneX will ask you if you want to keep the extras (a full-disc copy) when compressing. These menus take, extra subtitles, soundtracks, etc take up more room which would require more compression and loss of quality on the main video track. However you don't have to get rid of the extras if you don't want to as fr33daddy says.