Well, if you are not a Bluray movie addicted geek and want just to copy a DVD directly to another DVD, without copying it into a Folder of your HD, to ISO and other video formats, this is the right tool for you! Usually the main purpose to do that is to create a backup copy of a whatsoever DVD/CD disk, should it be lost or compromised by scratches, although the freeware "Abyssal Recovery" can easily overcome this problem making possible to copy even DVD's that do not play due to scratches:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/Abyssal-Recovery.shtml

If you are instead eager, like me, to copy a DVD/Bluray movie to folder, ISO and other video formats, in order to burn it to another DVD or better yet to watch the ripped DVD directly in your PC via virtual drives, mobile phones etc..., then forget this GAOTD and switch to better FREEWARE ALTERNATIVES without paying a dime for that!!

So, for what it does, I give this GAOTD a THUMBS DOWN because charging 40 bucks for a product like this with so few output options (only DVD ==> DVD) is sheer madness in my view!!


BEST (and BETTER) FREE ALTERNATIVES

* DVD disc -> DVD folder rip
http://www.dvdfab.com/hd-decrypter.htm
http://www.bluraytoavi.com/blu-ray-decrypter.html
http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/CD-DVD-Rip-Other-Tools/Blu-ray-Disc-Ripper.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/CD-DVD-Rip-Other-Tools/WonderFox-DVD-Ripper.shtml
http://www.gilisoft.com/product-dvd-ripper-free.htm
http://www.bluraytoavi.com/dvd-decrypter.html

* DVD Disk ==> DVD folder, ISO ==> DVD disc
http://www.imgburn.com
http://www.starburnsoftware.com/products/starburn/features
http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html
http://forums.redflagdeals.com/archive/index.php/t-1270323.html

Want to clone for FREE an entire blu-ray movies collection to a perfect 1:1 backup copy, by making and mounting ISO images on a new disc? No problem:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/CD-DVD-Rip-Other-Tools/Aurora-Blu-ray-Copy.shtml

* DVD Disk ==> Any other format
http://www.videotovideo.org
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Multimedia/Video/Portable-XMedia-Recode.shtml
http://www.cuda-soft.com/video-converter/index.htm

Finally, to add chapters, menus, pics etc...to your DVD copy, you can do that for FREE using ahese ward-winning FREE APPS like these:

http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-author
http://www.dvdflick.net/index.php

And how about a FREE TOOL capable of merging any video files of yours with external subtitles, in order to create professional multimedia files for iPhone/iPod playback?? Too good to be true, right? Wrong!!

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Encoders-Converter-DIVX-Related/ALLConverter-To-iPhone.shtml

Enjoy!!

My 2 cents for today's giveaway!!

Giovanni  –  11 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+214)

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Pros
*Does DVD disc to DVD disc copies; will copy original DVD and burn onto target DVD
*Bypasses DRM protection: “CSS, RC, RCE, and UOPs”
*Supports DVD-9 and DVD-5 discs
*Can do DVD-9 -> DVD-9, DVD-5 -> DVD-5, and DVD-9 -> DVD-5 copy

Cons
*Is buggy
*Only does DVD disc to DVD disc copy, does not do DVD disc -> DVD folder or DVD disc -> ISO

Free Alternatives
DVDFab HD Decreypter (DVD disc -> DVD folder rip)
Best free CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning program for Windows (burn DVD folder -> disc)

Final Verdict
Click here for final verdict and full review

Ashraf from dotTech  –  11 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+115)

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The version 8.87 from April 2011 has the extra option to copy to hard disk. If you install today's version 1.03 you can still go back and find the old file in the old directory and use that feature from version 8.87. However, when you run the old file it will still change the version number to 1.03 but don't let that worry you.

Eddie  –  11 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+40)

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The top suggestion at the moment is to add capability to create an ISO disc image -- Not saying that's good/bad, I just wanted to point out that software DVD players will play the DVD copied to the hard drive as-is, without creating an ISO & then having to mount it. Likewise the DVD's "VIDEO_TS" folder can be copied to & will work off a USB stick if more convenient for the OP using a netbook on the road. At any rate, while an ISO would IMHO be preferable to just going straight to another disc, lots of people put up with the extra effort & hassle to use ISO files when they really don't have to. [And since a copy of the disc is already stored on your hard drive (since most people only have one DVD drive, you can't write a new disc while it's reading the original), saving that copy on the hard drive would really be trivial.]

The Aplus DVD Copy ad copy here & particularly on the app's web page talks about putting the contents from a dual layer DVD on a single layer blank disc. When the DVD you bought is on a 8 GB [dual layer or DVD9] disc, usually that's so there's room for the special features, new movie trailers, multiple language tracks etc., and there's a good chance the movie itself, with your choice of language track, will fit on a regular 4 GB [single layer or DVD5] disc as-is. If the copy app won't do that for you, let you choose just the movie along with one language & one subtitle track, DVD Shrink will. Shrink will also let you cut off the movie credits if you need to make it just a little bit smaller, & like it's successor, Nero Recode, can reduce the file size of a movie by discarding data rather than completely re-encoding. Note that that works best when it's just shrinking the file size a little bit -- if the percentage figure drops below 90 you're generally better off to re-encode. [mpeg2 includes complete "I" frames (often ~ every 15th frame), with the frames in between recording just the changes made to the previous I frame. There are 2 kinds of those partial, in between frames -- using the classic example of a ball rolling from left to right, one type shows the ball's new position, while the other fills in the background where the ball was. Shrink & Recode accomplish their magic by discarding data in the 2nd type of partial frame, where the quality loss is very much less noticeable, which is why it's so fast & why it doesn't work well if you need to shrink the file a lot.]

That said, unless you're copying just the movie, sound track, & subs *As-Is* to a regular DVD, you will of course have quality loss -- discard data with Shrink/Recode, or re-encode & you'll lose quality not to mention some of your time & effort [re-encode video, even at identical frame sizes & bit rate or bandwidth, & you'll take a quality hit, all the more so if you use a relatively poor mpg2 encoder like the one included in the ffmpeg code libraries most of these video apps rely on.]. Considering the price difference between dual & single layer DVD blank discs is less than $1 if you buy them on sale, re-encoding makes little sense -- your time/effort have to be worth more than that. While some may exist, I haven't seen a DVD burner that won't do both dual & single layer discs -- IMHO you'll want to use the free ImgBurn to do the burning...

When a DVD player or drive reads a dual layer video DVD it reverses direction, switching to the 2nd layer usually somewhere around the 1/2 way point in the movie -- that point in time is set by the Layer Break, which is really just a cell or chapter designated as the layer break. When you use ImgBurn it'll ask you to confirm which cell or chapter you want to use as the layer break -- in case there's more than one candidate it gives added info & shows you which one it thinks you should choose. And that really is the only difference you'll notice burning a dual layer DVD, unless you count it taking longer -- you're burning more data plus dual layer blanks are rated at lower burning speeds than the single layer versions.

mike  –  11 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+34)

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#2 - You can use any name to register the product, so I used my own.. I managed to copy and paste the key into the registration box.. If yours doesn't work maybe copy the key from the readme file then use keyboard shortcut CTRL+V (Hold down the Ctrl key and press the V key) to try pasting the key into the box.. You shouldn't have to type it all in.

Neil  –  11 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+32)

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