Backing up my DVD's?

[lrtrees]

I have never backed up any of my dvd"s, but would like to learn. I do have DVD X Copy Platitum, but it seems I have heard it might not be very good. I also have CloneDVD and dvd shrink. I would appreciate some of your input as to what might be the best product to use. Non of these products are installed yet.
I do have Roxio Creator 7 installed.

Thank-you for your help.
Lon

[burninfool]

I use DVDDecrypter to rip,DVDShrink to compress DVD-9/10 and RecordNow Max(sometimes Nero) to burn.
I've never used the other transcoders but I'm very happy with the results of DVDShrink.
www.videohelp.com and www.doom9.org have some great guides.

[hoxlund]

i would also recommend www.dvdshrink.info for guides on using dvdshrink

[VN Souljah]

When you burn a dvd movie, it always gets good quality if you dont compress it to much, and if you compress a movie you can only see the "bad" result by stop and zoom the movie and see the pixels.
Even if you compress a movie to 50 % the quality is better than svcd.
But how often do you use the zoom when watching a movie?
DVD shrink is one of the easiest software to use, with dvd decrypter and nero.
When other people say some dvd burning software is not good and so, it doesnt mean it gets very bad result, only its unstable and doesnt work fine.

[sausage]

hello, please help me

i cannot get nero to burn dvds! it keeps telling me that burn process failed after running for about 30 secs i'm using the nero recode feature but it will not complete i'm using nero 6, i,ve tried dvd xcopy but it gives a simalar fault. all versions are up to date i,ve adjusted the virtual memory max to aid running but it still aint avin it HELP!
my system :-

P4 2.4g
512ddr
DVD writers are Pika one+-rw classic and matshita dvd ram (same prob on both)
OS win xp
m/board s478 intel 848p atx a l

media is
bulk pak 4xdvd-r
mirror platinum dvd-r
imition dvd+r (same prob on all 3)

will write cdr with no probs!!
dvd writers are on seperate ide cables and are correctly set SL/MASTER
using dvd decoder prior to burn

HELP HELP HELP

[Ian]

sausage, you've already asked this question in other sections of the forum. Please do not cross post.

[hoxlund]

wow those sound like old drives, ive found that if i use princo discs

it gives me that same message after about 30 seconds, like in between the lead-in burn