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CitizenKane007

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I just bought a Power mac G4 1.25 Ghz with a superdrive in it.
I am wondering if it is possible to copy Retailed DVD on another DVD with my mac. And will it be possible to listen to the copy on anny home DVD Player.
 
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Yes.

But doing so with any DVD's you don't own is illegal.

We do not support piracy here.

If you are looking to make legal backups of the DVD's you own, then there are some tools available at dvdrhelp.com.
 
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Copying DVD

I just bought a Power mac G4 1.25 Ghz with a superdrive in it.
I am wondering if it is possible to copy Retailed DVD on another DVD with my mac. And will it be possible to listen to the copy on anny home DVD's :p
 
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Emrys said:
Yes.

But doing so with any DVD's you don't own is illegal.

We do not support piracy here.

If you are looking to make legal backups of the DVD's you own, then there are some tools available at dvdrhelp.com.

agreed dont pirate

as for if it will work in your dvd player it all depends on the brand of disc not all brands work in all dvd players
 
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CitizenKane007

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Legal

That's it, i just want to make copys of my own DVD's. I have a DVD in my second house and i dont want to always carry my collection.

Francis
 
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CitizenKane007 said:
I just bought a Power mac G4 1.25 Ghz with a superdrive in it.
I am wondering if it is possible to copy Retailed DVD on another DVD with my mac. And will it be possible to listen to the copy on anny home DVD's :p

I do not know of any software for the mac that allows DVD pirating. It all depends on the DVD player whether legally burned DVDs work. Most newer ones work fine.
 
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There might also be some tools on Versiontracker.com that copy DVD's as well.
 
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My Own DVD copies...I need help

I made a project on DV for my class, finished itand madea playable DVD on my friends G4...I just got a
new G4 with superdrive and want to make copiesof my DVD I made so I can send them to family
memebers and friends. I tried to burn it but it wouldn't play after. I copied the DVD to the desktop and then
selected the floders in my copy on my desktop and dragged them to the blank image on the desktop.
Burned it and it didn't play.
what can I do?

thanks,

Mike
 
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badbonz said:
I made a project on DV for my class, finished itand madea playable DVD on my friends G4...I just got a
new G4 with superdrive and want to make copiesof my DVD I made so I can send them to family
memebers and friends. I tried to burn it but it wouldn't play after. I copied the DVD to the desktop and then
selected the floders in my copy on my desktop and dragged them to the blank image on the desktop.
Burned it and it didn't play.
what can I do?

thanks,

Mike
the only thing that comes to mind on how you can copy it is using Toast 6......or if you can get a copy of the project file itself from your friends G4 and then just burn it straight from the project file on your own G4.
 
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The Dragon

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Yes you need toast 6 or 5 for making a perfect coppy witch wil work fine and i guess apple disc copy would work to.
As for backing up your DVD's or for your other house (witch i guess is legal here in holland at least) you could best use DVD2oneX wich is comercial and you can get a trial version at www.macupdate.com witch is a perfect program for it. Exept that there are some DVD's that do have another encription on it witch DVD2oneX does not recognize. DVD remaster is somewhat the same to DVD2oneX. Then you stil need toast (also commercial software) to burn your resulting video_ts folder. This procedure works fine with me.
However i could use some help: I am a great fan of the X-men movies and i bought the 4 disc special (x-men 1&2) but i don't want to use my original DVD's with the risk of damaging them. However disc 2 does not let itself be backed up, can anyone help me? This is as far as i know legal to do in holland (where i live).
For the webmaster: This is my first post and i hope i understand your rulez well witch i want to respect otherwise let me know.
 

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