burn dvds?

[bluzeboy]

Do I need a special kind of disc to burn a copy of DVD to a blank CD-R ?
Or will the ones I burn music cds with work?

 

[cpugeniusmv]

you can't make a 1:1 copy of a DVD to a CD-R, or with just a CD burner.

to make one of those you would need a DVD burner, and some DVD-R or DVD+R

but if you're trying to get a DVD movie converted into a VCD or SVCD, then yes...it's the same kind of disk.

 

[bluzeboy]

thanks cpugeniusmv

 

[RogerPhillis]

No you dont need a DVD burner to compress copies of dvds to cd...as there are several shareware programs that do that , and to about 10% of the original. ie 6Gb to 600 Mb.
The copy is usually written to a temp file and then automatically to cd.

Ordinary , good quality cds such as Verbatim are better .

 

[Leevoy]

Originally posted by cpugeniusmv
you can't make a 1:1 copy of a DVD to a CD-R, or with just a CD burner.

to make one of those you would need a DVD burner, and some DVD-R or DVD+R

but if you're trying to get a DVD movie converted into a VCD or SVCD, then yes...it's the same kind of disk.

The authors of winboost claims they have software which will allow you to burn dvd to cd-r disks, never tried it as I have a ricoh dvd burner and an ample supply of dvd disks.

 

[mike09]

what kind of progrma do i need to compress a dvd to a cd?

 

[cpugeniusmv]

Originally posted by mike09
what kind of progrma do i need to compress a dvd to a cd?

a data dvd or a movie dvd?

you can't do it with a data dvd, but for movies...some of my friends are liking DVDXcopy...
i haven't tried it myself though.

EDIT: dvdxcopy is for DVD movie -> dvd+/- R

i don't know of any other software off the top of my head.

 

[Elroy Jetson]

I use a combination of http://www.dvddecrypter.com/ and http://www.dvdshrink.org/ for this. Both are freeware, and excellent programs.

 

[dreamliner77]

DVDXCopy has a new version out that allows for compressing and burning to CD-R

 

[Reg]

Check out http://www.dvdrhelp.com. They have tons of software and loads of instructions as to how to go about doing this.