copying a dvd on a non-dvd burner

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My new computer with XP, lots of hard drive, etc. has a 40x/10/x/40x CD-RW Drive with Roxios Easy CD creator and a
$19.95 version of Wndow's Media Player.

Yesterday, I purchased a very simple DVD Video Play SKD620KU to listen to CD's in MP3, see .jpg files from my computer and to watch a rented DVD movie. It is a Toshiba.

Will the software I see available all over the internet for copying DVD movies, downloading DVD movies, etc work with my non-dvd burner computer? Or, should I replace my Cd-RW with something that will burn a DVD? Of, course, I know I can just buy or rent a DVD.

I would appreciate a comment, go for software, but will it work with what I have, or go DVD burner, and will it work in downloading DVD's or copying rental DVD's?

Many thanks, and a link for me to research would be fine, so as not to burden you with an explanation.
 
I believe all that "DVD" burning software does is compress' the video to say DIVX format or a SVCD format so you can burn a "DVD MOVIE to a regular CD-R"

You canNOT make true DVD copies with a CD-R/W drive. It won't to begin with know how to READ DVDs, let alone write DVD information.
 
I'm new and thick at this, so might I ask--------

"DVD burning software does is compress' the video". If this is true then does it follow that the CR-RW is reading the DVD?
"So you can burn a DVD MOVIE to a regular CR-R" In a fashion is this not being able to create a DVD with the software and CD-RW?

"You canNOT make a true DVD". By this do you mean that it cannot make an "identical" copy? Is it a near copy that is viewable?

"It won't began to know how to READ DVDs" If not then how does it compress"?
 
You convert your DVD's to divx's and burn those. You can only watch them on your computer or on a DVD player that supports divx format. You will lose the fancy intro page, the behind the scenes stuff, the surround sound, etc. It will essentially be a VHS version of the movie.

You can also convert the DVD to V-CD (video-cd) most DVD players support this, but the files are quite large and one DVD might take up 3-4 CD-R's.

The reason so much information can fit on a DVD is becuase it has multiple layers on the disc, where as a cd is only one layer. Your DVD player distinguished between the layers and can access muliple layers at a time. Therefore, if you want to make a *true* DVD copy you need to buy a DVD-burner and DVD-R's.
 
Thanks nosferous and sae,

Not being much of a movie watcher, I believe my payoff would be to rent dvds instead of buying a dvd burner. I believe I did talk with someone who said they used the dvd capability for backup,
through some technique that they can put lots of bytes on a dvd.
I may have dreamed that up. I don't have much to back up so I do not give this much concern.
 
from what i hear, you cant just pop a dvd(movie) in your puter and a blank dvd-r in the dvd burner and get a copy. the commercial dvds have a copy protection built in that wont allow it- there is some software out there that allows you to access the movie data and i guess either burn a straight copy or copy to the hd and then burn a dvd- i could be wrong
 
What you say Kremit, makes sense

We hear every day about people ripping, etc. audio off of the internet, copying files, etc. but we seldom here the movie industry decrying the ripping of movies.

I remember in the early eighties when you could not copy a rented VCR due to copyguard, or whatever. Therefore, this same protection must be a tool of the movie industry with DVDs.

An early post suggested that a DVD is much more complex than an audio CD in technology. It's a little like people don't take out a novel in the library and make copies..... too much work.

I respect that the artist are concerned about rip offs. Maybe they need to figure out how to protect themselves with some strategy that has worked for the book publishing and movie industry.

It's fun to try and beat the system.
 
I haven't tried this software
http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
but it is freely available and enables you to make a true iso image of a dvd AND it removes the macrovision copy protection. This theoretically means (IF you have a DVD burner) that you can make unlimited copies of commercial film dvds (for your own purposes of course!!) These are true copies, not compressed.

Because most people only have CD burners, in this case not only do you need to initially "rip" the image information off the DVD to the hard drive (using ripper s/ware), but then you need to use a program such as Vegas that enables you to resave the film in a compressed format such as DIVX.
 
Many thanks for the info on CD w/o burner

I just need to study and think through to make sure I get the right equipment for matching my needs.
 
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