DVD Copy Question (Legal)

[deputy_doofy]

I know this question has been asked a million times, but I was asked to copy a work DVD. I used a relatively known freeware program to extract the whole disc and got the typical Audio TS and Video TS folders. Once I got those folders, I popped a DVD-R in my drive, copied the folders to the disc, and burned. Once finished, Apple's DVD player fired up, but immediately said "disc not supported" (and yes, the "original" disc played fine). For the fun of it, I popped the copied disc into the DVD player in the living room and it played fine. Why did the Apple player not recognize it?

Also, did I need an extractor program or could I have simply copied the audio and video TS folders to my hard drive (followed by moving them to a disc to burn)?

Many thanks!

 

[mklos]

I would say the best program to use for that since you already did most of the work is Toast Titanium 7. That will make it so that it plays in both the computer DVD player and a regular DVD player.

This program does all kinds of other things involving burning CDs or DVDs.

You can pick that up for about $80.

 

[gr8tfly]

Once you have the VIDEO_TS folder, you can use Toast. The trick is to set the format to DVDROM (UDF).

 

[gageray]

For best results I would get Toast and Popcorn.

 

[d wade]

For best results I would get Toast

another vote for Toast here

 

[deputy_doofy]

Thanks, all. Appreciate the responses!

 

[YunusEmre]

How does it work with different region codes? We have home made DVDs but they were made outside US and they have a different region code.

 

[balamw]

How does it work with different region codes? We have home made DVDs but they were made outside US and they have a different region code.

Home made DVDs will not have encryption or region coding. You might have a case of NTSC vs. PAL, but that's not the same thing as region coding.

B

 

[YunusEmre]

Home made DVDs will not have encryption or region coding. You might have a case of NTSC vs. PAL, but that's not the same thing as region coding.

B

Yeah I think it is in a PAL format. I can still make copies right?

 

[simie]

Home made DVDs will not have encryption or region coding. You might have a case of NTSC vs. PAL, but that's not the same thing as region coding.

B

I have made DVD's for work, I use FCP to edit and then export to Quicktime and use Toast to compress the video to 4 gig to burn onto single layer DVDR's. Toast 7 insists on putting region code onto every disk burnt.

 

[the Western zoo]

isn't region 0 like the universal region code?