panicinyearzero wrote: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...