Copying DVD's to CDR's?
 

"We will show you how to use your CD-R Writer to create backups of your DVDs that will play in your home DVD player. All you need in your computer is a DVD drive that plays DVDs and a CD-R Writer. You can burn movies on CD-R or CD-RW discs"

I get spammed for this all the time. Does it actually work? I didn't know it was possible to fit an entire DVD onto a CDR. Is the end quality exactly the same as the original DVD?

Yes it works great, you can fit a dvd movie into about 400MB.

The quality is really good also.

You just have to make sure to install the DIVX component.

A buddy of mine runs a site that does that. Works great, and he banks off it too!

I just don't understand the technology behind this. There's only 700MB and 80 minutes of space on a CDR.

So if only 80 minutes of sound can fit on a CDR, then how can 2 hours of sound and video fit?

And if this is possible, then what's the point in DVD writers?

It doesn't go by minutes, it goes by storage space. Obviously if it's a long movie you may be forced to have it on 2 CD's instead of 1.

One word: Compression. You can fit many more songs on a CD if you compress them to mp3 for example.
It works because the TV player has a lousy resolution and you can compress the shit out of the movie. You also loose the menu's and additional languages and extras.

:ak47:

exactly what I was going to say, but it's gonna be in vcd or mpeg, avi's can't be played off dvd playters.... yet

You could always just spring for a DVD-RW...

So ou basically just get the movie itself on the CDR when you copy it across without all the gumption added in?

Do the CDR's auto play on PC's as if it were a software program too?

Regards,

Lee

so if it's divx and your home dvd player (not computer player) plays cdr's you can watch it?

I'm confused...which is nothing new. ;)

Don't buy any of the DVD copy programs. You can get it all for free and learn how to use it here:

http://www.afterdawn.com/dvd/


Read some of the forums there and you can learn every thing you need to know about it. A word of warning though, the quality tends to suck, especially on Big Screen TVs and it take many hours to convert the DVD.



Flow

thanks for the link. You fucking rock! :thumbsup

save yourself the time and trouble and get a dvd burner for like $200-250. you lose a lot of quality doing it to cd anyways. not to mention blank dvd media is only about $1 or less each.