Sick of having to repurchase movies every time a DVD gets scratched so bad that it won’t play in the DVD player? Let me guess, you’ve always wanted to be able to make back ups of your DVDs? There are three programs necessary to accomplish your dreams of DVD backup domination. The first of these three programs is DVDFab HD Decrypter. DVDFab HD Decrypter is a simple program that copies entire DVD movies to your hard disk and removes all protections. It also allows you to copy Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies to your hard disk.
The next program needed to successfully backup a DVD is Free DVD. Free DVD software removes several other protections from the DVD folder created with DVDFab. This includes analog copyright protection, region code, and user operation prohibitions. The last program required to complete your DVD backups is DVD Shrink. DVD Shrink does a bunch of different things to your copied DVD folder to make it possible to burn a copy of your DVD. DVD Shrink removes copyright encryption from the copied DVD to allow you to burn a DVD successfully. Most importantly DVD Shrink compresses the DVD to allow you to be able to fit it on a DVD. Once your movie is compressed with DVD Shrink, simply burn a data disk with the outputted folders. That’s it. Happy DVD copying!
Feel free to post any questions on the forum or as a comment.
September 9th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
How essential are Free DVD and DVD Shrink?
DVD Fab has an option to directly write an ISO image, after which one can use your favorite burner app or imgburn to create the DVD from the ISO.
It has a ‘quality %” indicator just like DVD Shrink when selecting what you want copied if re-authoring the DVD.
September 10th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
I find that DVD Shrink compresses the DVD in a way that doesn’t ruin the video quality as much as DVDFab. Also, although DVDFab removes region code, RCE, etc; I find it necessary to use Free DVD to remove them completely.