Simple help needed to capture video and rip dvds to disc

[jagnese]

Hello,

I'm a retired person who is not very computer literate. I have been trying to read and digest how to do some basic things I am trying to accomplish on this site and others for several years. I have downloaded a number of programs and worked with them but always end up with an unusable final product that I am unable to play from my hard drive or copy to another disc. I would like a simple explanation and a referral to the correct software to use and some simple step by step instructions in:

1.) How to copy a non-copyrighted streaming video to my hard drive for later viewing when I do not have bandwidth (80% of the time). The particular documentary is "Loose Change and the DVD asks people to copy and redistribute it at the end.

2.) How to copy a 7GB DVD to my hard drive so that I can play it later and/or make a copy to another 7GB disk. I tried using DVD Shrink to make a copy. It shows it as not copy protected but it will not fit on a regular 4.7 disc at maximum compression. I would like to do it with no loss of quality if that is possible. I am trying to get the television programs I have downloaded on high capacity DVD disks or to my drive so I can see them later.

3.) How to locate some SIMPLE instructions regarding these issues. I live in third world countries most sof the time and only have access to bandwidth for about 6 weeks a year and I would ideally like to stock up these films for use when I don't have bandwidth available.

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Joe

costacoralito@yahoo.com

[linyx]

I am trying to get the television programs I have downloaded on high capacity DVD disks or to my drive so I can see them later.
Can't help you with those.

As for copying dvds, try DVDFab to copy and DVDShrink to compress. I have never had a dual layer disc that it couldn't compress enough to fit on a single layer disc, although with any type of compression there will always be a loss of quality.

[blutach]

@jagnese

First, welcome to Doom9. Secondly, please re-read rule 6. This is very important.

Regards

[jagnese]

I tried to copy a non-copy protected high capacity DVD using DVD Shrink. It scanned the DVD and verified that there was no copy protection so I went to rip it using automatic compression. When finished scanning there was a small sliver of red remaining on the right in the progress bar and the message appeared that said the content would not fit on target disc. All links were dead except the compression ratio which was set at maximum by the auto select feature so I couldn't remove unnecessary audio.

[blutach]

So, shrink it and use that output as input for a 2nd shrinking.

Regards