Need help copying a DVD.

[Patrick G]

A year or so ago I had someone convert my wedding on VHS to DVD (not copyrighted). I now want to make a copy of that DVD for the parents. What's the easiest way to do this? I'm using Vista Ultimate.

By the way, when I pop in the DVD and explore it, I see 2 folders at the root of the disc - AUDIO_TS & VIDEO_TS.

 

[drdeutsch]

You have Nero? It has a nifty "Copy DVD" function.

The AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders are the folders of all DVDs. AUDIO_TS is empty, but VIDEO_TS has all the .ifo, .bup, and .vob files that make up the DVD. Get a good (eve free) Disc burning program and it should have an option to create DVD. Copy the files in VIDEO_TS on the original DVD and burn them on the VIDEO_TS folder on the new dvd, and you should be good to go.

I think DeepBurner is free, but I'm not sure if it makes DVDs. I just use Nero.

 

[FRAGizm]

Get Slysoft AnyDVD and DVDclone. Rip your wedding DVD to your HD by using anyDVD then open DVDclone, and rip it to a DVDR. Both are trial verisons, great product though.

www.slysoft.com

 

[sirholio]

If you don't need to re author the video at all, you could use the disc copy options in most burning programs as mentioned above.

-or-

use http://www.lucersoft.com/freeware.php LC iso creator to make an iso of the disk.
then
use http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download ImgBurn to burn that iso image to a blank disk.

I did that just last night, actually. Either way you decide will work.