DVD2DVDr?

[crgnjul]

I have been using DVD2SVCD for a while now and just LOVE it. I am thinking about getting a DVD burner (probably a 2nd generation DVD+RW) in the next day or so.
My question is this: Can I use DVD2SCVD (or something similar) to backup DVD movies to DVDR? I know I can follow the guides on this and several other sites to rip, then mess with the IFO files and all that stuff. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to automate it like DVD2SVCD does for SVCDs.

Also am I correct in that I could use NERO to do a DVD to DVD copy of a DVD-5 disk and I would only need to worry about DVD-9 discs? Yes I know DVD-9 is the new standard, but was just wondering.

Thanks for any responces
crgnjul

[jesoonster]

dvd to dvd I THINK would work if the dvd-5 was a copied disk. If it's an original it won't work...

[Doom9]

when it comes to copying DVD-5s I suggest you use DVDDecrypter to make an ISO of the disc, then burn the ISO using DVDDecrypter. That has worked flawlessly for me in many instances. As for DVD-9 there's a program called DVD2DVDr, but it only works with old software, only for PAL and is generally pretty buggy (or so I've heard), so in the end things will be much more complicated than using DVD2SVCD.

[crgnjul]

Thanks Doom9. That is very helpful.

I know I had used what was listed as a "hack" in the DVD2SVCD forum to use DVD2SVCD to convert MPEG's that I had saved from my capture card to SVCD. I wonder if there is a similar method for doing DVD2DVDr? Or maybe I should just convert them to 1 large SVCD and put that on the DVDr? But that would really defeat the purpose of getting a DVDr.

What do most of you guys do?

[Doom9]

I'm not a dvd2svcd user but if I'm not mistaken it's possible to create DVD compliant output files (as in video streams - m2v files). You can then take that, add the AC3 streams to it, create a basic project in your favorite DVD authoring program (your burner should come with one, it may be crappy but it works for a simple project) and burn it onto a DVD. If you spend the money for a DVD-R it would be a waste not to make full use of it, DVD allows for quite some quality improvement because your bitrate doesn't have a 2.6mbit roof. Even if the average bitrate isn't much higher than on your average SVCD project, the larger bitrate range and a bit of manual tweaking in CCE really pay off imho.