1 Click DVD Copy?

[Satee]

Greetings,

I noticed that the Sticky on "Ripping programs and where to get them" at http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=113179 doesn't mention a program called "1 Click DVD Copy." A supposed review of it at http://www.best-dvd-burning-software-reviews.com/default.asp?ref=30&q=dvd+copy&gclid=CImJjtDdnooCFTIeGAodMwLPng makes it look pretty good, but I haven't seen mention of it here. Does anyone have an opinion of it? Anyone know if it uses the cursed "Product Activation"?

Thanks

[evdberg]

Sites like "best-...." are only there to promote products that either give lots of commission for affiliate or either promote their own products ... so the higher the rank, the more money they make on a sale of that product ...

[blutach]

There's more than enough freeware available to do the job.

On the ripping side, RipIt4Me (http://www.ripit4me.org/) and DVD Fab Decrypter spring to mind.

On the 1-click shrinking side, you can consider DVD Rebuilder (http://dvd-rb.dvd2go.org/) or DVD Shrink.

Regards

[HyperHacker]

I don't trust websites in the format www.best-[insert-several-words-here].com. Often, they have nothing even to do with what the URL says.

[setarip_old]

@Satee

Hi!

The following link will provide you with some user experiences regarding this software:

http://forum.digital-digest.com/archive/index.php/t-67460.html

[Satee]

Thanks to everyone who replied, and especially to setarip_old who provided exactly the kind of information I was looking for. I realize that the website I mentioned was probably a shill for "1 Click DVD Copy" and that's why I asked about it on this forum, but from the thread cited by setarip_old it appears that AnyDVD is the majority choice for commercial s/w. I'm willing to pay for the convenience of using one program for everything, but from the review setarip_old posted, "1ClickDVD" does NOT look like a one stop solution.

I've tried most of the freeware mentioned above and was mostly very impressed with it (especially the cost, heh!), but I had to go through several different steps to burn a copy of The DaVinci Code. It's one of those movies that are too long to fit on a DVD5 and apparently too large even for DVD Shrink to be able to compress to a DVD5. I eventually got it burned to two individual DVD5's, but I had to:
1. Rip the protected DVD to a file folder to create individual VOB, etc., files.
2. Remove the protections from the directory containing the VOB files using the small freeware program FreeDVD.exe
3. Burn the now unprotected video files in the disk folder to a DVD9 ISO image using Nero or some other program (I forget).
4. Mount the now unprotected DVD9 ISO image on a virtual drive using "Alcohol 120%"
5. Use a commercial copy of DVD Cloner II to split the unprotected virtual ISO into two parts and burn them to two individual DVDs (Note: DVD Cloner II will not split the original protected disk and DVD Shrink won't shrink it, because they both encounter some type of error. I think the DVD deliberately has a bad sector on it as some sort of copy protection mechanism just like they used to do back in the old days with floppy disks, har, har!
6. I could finally then go ahead and make as many copies of the split DVDs as I wanted since they were now split and contained no copy protection.


I would be willing to pay a reasonable price for commercial s/w to do all this for me in one step, but only if it works properly and DOES NOT use so called "Product Activation" because I DO NOT rent software - which is what "Product Activation" amounts to. That's why I'm still running Windows 2000 and am just about ready to switch to Linux.

Regards to all

[lighter]

1CLICK DVD COPY is not that bad, it produces movies with very good quality, but if you're going to buy it don't pay this high price. Better search for a good discount first (this site (http://www.lightsparkle.com/product_page.php?product_id=2590) sells it with 20% less).

[gilbertxyz]

1 click works perfect for me. I'm a not that good on pc functions but am a good reader. All you have to do is download latest version of DVD43(3.9.0) and it decrypts on the fly while 1 click is doing it's thing...really a breeze!

I've used DVD Shrink and it has many more steps and is very slow, also failed to make backups for 2 of my projects. This is how I came upon 1 Click.

You have many options to choose from and a lot of auto features that will make your backup ez. Actually it takes about 3 clicks per disc, my average time is about 25 to 30 mins a disc, got an AMD 2000 that runs at 1.53Ghz. I'm sure a newer pc will cut down time. The only drawback I've encountered is that you cannot record both DTS 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 together, must choose one. Overall very satisfied with results would highly recommend.
Gilbert