10-08-2008, 05:39 PM

Hi. I desperately need some help from all of you experts:-).

I'm trying to make a backup copy of a child's dvd. We just want to be able to keep a copy in the car.

I have successfully encoded the dvd using handbrake. The kids are able to watch the movie on their ipods with no problem.

I'm now trying to take it a step further to burn a dvd. I've now tried 3 different copy softwares (burn, dvd copy, and dvd2onex2). The problem is that I cannot seem to select the movie source when it lets me browse through my computer. When I browse, it shows all of the files, but very few items are actually "highlighted" to allow for selection (none of them being movies). This happens on all of the copy softwares I have tried. I am very glad these came with free trials, since I certainly don't want to pay if I can't get them to work.

What am I doing wrong? Do I need to do something to my movies before trying to use one of the copy softwares?

Oh, I've got the basic Macbook, '08.

Thanks so much!

Karen

10-08-2008, 06:42 PM

technically, what you're trying to do is illegal (at least in the US which is the law this board attempts to adhere to). and while i have two young boys myself and can empathize with your desire to save a few bucks in the face of a dvd's likely destruction, duplicating copywritten material such as this can't be discussed here.

10-08-2008, 06:48 PM

Eric is right, unfortunately we don't allow discussion on how to duplicate copyrighted material here.