copying Movies

[Jbird]

Hi, I read threw some of the messages on here, but there are just too many! I understand DVD write speeds. But my question is I'm interested in getting a 4x DVD-RW drive and was wondering what kind of write times I'll get when copying a movie. I am guessing because of having to decrypt movies you can't do a DVD-Rom to DVD-R copy right? or at least not a ful speed copy.

thanks

[aznsound]

when making a 4.7+gig movie fit in a DVD-R, you'd be happy to be burning at all... the process is so complicated and time consuming that 4x or 2x etc, would be the least of your worries...

[boblx2]

Using my Pioneer A05 and Ritek 4X software my drive writes at 4x. No you cannot copy a DVD movie on the fly from one drive to another. There are a multitude of reasons why but I would suggest you first visit this site: http://www.doom9.org. Most of your question will be answered there.

Good luck with it.........

[Jbird]

thanks for the replies guys, maybe I'll look into converting the DVD's to mpeg4 or divx and seeing if there's a way I can real time convert/burn them to dvd. I know I'm still dreaming though