CloneDVD released

[tazdevl]

It's free for 30 days... worst case, if it sucks I won't buy it

i'm sorry, what do you mean by that?
the download from their site is a free 30-day limited trial version?

Fully functional for 30 days.

It's not like the BS you get from DVD2One, DVD95 and DVDXCopy where it only encodes the first few minutes if you want to try it out.

[dodecahedron]

Fully functional for 30 days.

thanks.
yeah, that's what i had meant but said it badly.

[panicinyearzero]

I have tried DVDXCopy on the original movie 'Frankenstein' from 1931. The movie is only about 71 min. long, and is black and white (although I don't know if B&W takes up less digital space than color), and yet DVDXCopy said it couldn't get all the features on one disk,; it would have to make a second DVD. That is the pits, since a blank holds 4.7GB, and the extra feature on the disk aren't that many. Also had same issue with a modern movie, "The Hot Chick", and even though I said to dispense with the extra features, it couldn't even get the full movie on one disk. I own the DVD, but I just happened to choose it for a test, which the program didn't do the greatest on. As for DVDClone, I had the same experience--nothing seemed to happen in the menus until I highlighted the DVD drive, then got the message about not copying copy-protected disks. Question: Isn't this the same company which made CDClone, which went out of its way to give menu settings to copy games as well as CD's? What a difference!

[hoxlund]

use dvd shrink

www.dvdshrink.org

[tazdevl]

I have tried DVDXCopy on the original movie 'Frankenstein' from 1931. The movie is only about 71 min. long, and is black and white (although I don't know if B&W takes up less digital space than color), and yet DVDXCopy said it couldn't get all the features on one disk,; it would have to make a second DVD. That is the pits, since a blank holds 4.7GB, and the extra feature on the disk aren't that many. Also had same issue with a modern movie, "The Hot Chick", and even though I said to dispense with the extra features, it couldn't even get the full movie on one disk. I own the DVD, but I just happened to choose it for a test, which the program didn't do the greatest on. As for DVDClone, I had the same experience--nothing seemed to happen in the menus until I highlighted the DVD drive, then got the message about not copying copy-protected disks. Question: Isn't this the same company which made CDClone, which went out of its way to give menu settings to copy games as well as CD's? What a difference!

Same company as CloneCD. To avoid legal issues with the MPAA, a decrypter wasn't included. Use DVD Decrypter in File Mode do decrypt the DVD to the disc. From there you can use CloneDVD to transcode and burn.

I agree with Hox, DVDshrink is free (no decrypting necessary) and produces the best results IMO. Also you have more control over what to keep, compression levels, start, end times etc...

I think also when you're able to look at the movie you'll see where the extra space lies... DTS, other language tracks etc...

[hoxlund]

true, you can select the audio streams, 2 channel, 6 channel, dts, english, spanish, and subpictures

[Dartman]

Go find AnyDVD and install it. It will take care of the problems that you are having with CloneDVD. I think Ollie designed it then gave it to another Company in a part of the world where those kind of problems aren't worried about. Try here http://www.slysoft.com/
I have now used the demos and they work pretty darned good now.

[hoxlund]

so use anydvd for what?

[Dartman]

It takes out the copy guard and any region code and like that on the fly, works FAST. Load it up and 2 seconds or less the job is done and you can use CloneDVD like it was intended or any other program you like.
Go to the site and read it. I haven't had any problems with it so far and you can load it at startup or just when you need to run it.