DVD buring questions

[ymlccc]

Hi all,

I am new to DVD burning world. I have some questions need to be answered, please help!!

1. Can I copy DVD movies on the fly? If yes, what's the source drive's speed? Is 16X enough? (I mean in order to achieve 4X, and media is capable)

2. Which DVD source drive is better? Lito-on or Pioneer?


Thankx and happy new year!

[Kennyshin]

I don't think it matters that much.

Read some DVD-ROM drive reviews - you'll find no drive in the world can read dual-layer DVD movie disks at 16x (most disks are dual-layered) and there is no dual-layer recordable DVD media.

[Derek]

You're most likely going to have to rip the DVDs you own to your hard drive (called backing up) and adjust the bitrate or cut out special features and extra audio tracks to get it onto one DVD-R. There's a good guide on www.doom9.org on how to do it.

Derek

[boblx2]

I am being told by the Media pubs forum users that a program called DVD Movie Copy from Steinberg will copy movies on the fly. Again the burner is what your preference is. I have a Pioneer A05 and a Sony DRU-500A. I am not completly happy with either of them. I think the Pioneer A04 is probably the best buy right now. Anyway that software I spoke of does not look like it ships to the US but if you are somewhere in Europe it is a chip shot. Or maybe there is somewhere that ships it to the US that I am unaware of. Personally I have been burned on so many of these software packages that are supposed to do everything that I stick to my old way of backing up with CCE, etc. But some folks say this stuff works.

Hope this helps.........