Best DVD9->1 DVDR Backup method

[rohangc]

Hi. I am looking at the DVD9->1 DVDR backup guides and am totally confused. To begin with, some of the guides are old whereas some are new. There is no information about which of them is the best method to make the best quality backups. I am very inclined towards using DVD Rebuilder as this method seems to be the simplest of them all.

Someone please tell me which method to use. Thanks.

[ammck55]

Forum rules request that we ask no questions under the "best" qualifier; best is what works for you on an individual basis, so there's room for, er, discussion.

That said, you may find that DVD Shrink is even simpler to use than DVD Rebuilder, but DVDR will turn a slightly higher quality encode. You'll have to use both app's and make your own decisions. Or, test others, by all means. My best advice would be to download some software, get a guide in hand, and just plain go to work.

Regardless of the age of the guides, they will all work if you're using the version of the software they were written for. Doom9 usually updates his guides when necessary, so just because a guide hasn't been updated for some time doesn't mean it's obsolete.

Get stuck, post back in a specific sub-fora, or right here in Newbies.

ammck55

[setarip_old]

I am very inclined towards using DVD Rebuilder as this method seems to be the simplest of them all.

The "simplest" method of all would be a "one-step" solution, such as the commercial program "DVD95Copy", which handles ripping, compression, and burning...

[rohangc]

Forum rules request that we ask no questions under the "best" qualifier; best is what works for you on an individual basis, so there's room for, er, discussion.

I wasn't aware of this rule. Thanks for letting me know that.

The "simplest" method of all would be a "one-step" solution, such as the commercial program "DVD95Copy", which handles ripping, compression, and burning...

Well, I am not really averse to doing something that is not very "simple" if it yields better results. I think I will do what @ammck55 asked me to do. Will just get to work and seek help if I am stuck somewhere. Thanks.

[CWR03]

I prefer CloneDVD, which is fairly simple but gives you lots of freedom to select what you want in the copy. As far as quality, a lot has to do with the amount of data going to the backup. Rather than degrade the quality by squeezing a full 9-gig DVD onto one single-layer, I may select only the movie files on one disk and all the extras on another.