Copying DVDs with Win10.

How does one do this? Is there a simple "copy G to D command?

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How does one do this? Is there a simple "copy G to D command?

Are you asking to copy a dvd (or rather the files on it) to your hard
disk or are you asking how to make a second dvd that's a copy of the
first?

If you want to copy the files from the dvd to your hard disk then put
disk in drive, open My Computer, right click on the DVD drive icon and
select Open. I don't suggest simply double clicking the dvd icon because
if it's a movie dvd it'll likely simply start playing the movie and
other issues like that.

Once the contents of the dvd are visible copy them to your hard drive
same as copying any other files. There's numerous means of doing this
such as using the Menu's Cut and Paste feature for one although I almost
always copy files by right click and dragging them between windows
because then you can always expressly indicate if you want to Copy or
Move the file.

If you want to create a copy of the dvd you'll want 3rd party software
all of which can be found for free. The easiest way is to first create
an "image" of the dvd. You then use that image to burn another dvd.
ImgBurn is one free program will do that for you.

Things like removing copy protection, converting from PAL to NTSC or
back, etc. etc are all additional things you may have to learn about for
total success.

Peter Jason wrote:
How does one do this? Is there a simple "copy G to D command?

There are devices like this for production work.

http://www.produplicator.com/products/cd-dvd-duplicator

But they would not be useful for taking a Hollywood
"pressed" DVD and trying to duplicate it. If you
wanted to duplicate that DVD with your kids birthday
video on it, that kind of machine would oblige. Because
that would be taking a burned (not pressed) data DVD
and duplicating it to a second, burned data DVD.

You will notice that Windows by default, has some kind
of scheme where it "queues up" a folder full of files,
and then offers to write them. That's presumably a
multi-session notion, where you can close a session,
and add a new version of files to an open disc.

But that notion does not neatly align with
straight-out duplication of data DVDs. Nor is there
any mention of pipelining for low latency.

If I was doing it, I would read/RIP to ISO using
Imgburn, then burn to a blank with Imgburn. Which
takes roughly triple the time, due to the need to
run a Verify cycle on the finished product.

Pressed media, you order in lots of 10,000. To distribute
Hollywood content on burn-able data DVDs using a duplicator
box like the one above, the movie will need to be re-encoded
to fit whatever limits the media has. Dual layer media is
usually a bit more expensive (or may have federal taxes levied),
giving an incentive to use DIVX or the like to store the Hollywood
movie in a lower quality format suited for 4.7GB discs.

Paul

On Sun, 05 Mar 2017 23:56:49 -0500, Paul
wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:
How does one do this? Is there a simple "copy G to D command?

There are devices like this for production work.

http://www.produplicator.com/products/cd-dvd-duplicator

But they would not be useful for taking a Hollywood
"pressed" DVD and trying to duplicate it. If you
wanted to duplicate that DVD with your kids birthday
video on it, that kind of machine would oblige. Because
that would be taking a burned (not pressed) data DVD
and duplicating it to a second, burned data DVD.

You will notice that Windows by default, has some kind
of scheme where it "queues up" a folder full of files,
and then offers to write them. That's presumably a
multi-session notion, where you can close a session,
and add a new version of files to an open disc.

But that notion does not neatly align with
straight-out duplication of data DVDs. Nor is there
any mention of pipelining for low latency.

If I was doing it, I would read/RIP to ISO using
Imgburn, then burn to a blank with Imgburn. Which
takes roughly triple the time, due to the need to
run a Verify cycle on the finished product.

Pressed media, you order in lots of 10,000. To distribute
Hollywood content on burn-able data DVDs using a duplicator
box like the one above, the movie will need to be re-encoded
to fit whatever limits the media has. Dual layer media is
usually a bit more expensive (or may have federal taxes levied),
giving an incentive to use DIVX or the like to store the Hollywood
movie in a lower quality format suited for 4.7GB discs.

Paul


Thanks, I found a one-step on-the-fly method with Nero 12 that seems
to work OK.

https://postimg.org/image/j0v60d9np/

I thought Windows10 might have had an equivalent.

Peter Jason wrote:
On Sun, 05 Mar 2017 23:56:49 -0500, Paul
wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:
How does one do this? Is there a simple "copy G to D command?
There are devices like this for production work.

http://www.produplicator.com/products/cd-dvd-duplicator

But they would not be useful for taking a Hollywood
"pressed" DVD and trying to duplicate it. If you
wanted to duplicate that DVD with your kids birthday
video on it, that kind of machine would oblige. Because
that would be taking a burned (not pressed) data DVD
and duplicating it to a second, burned data DVD.

You will notice that Windows by default, has some kind
of scheme where it "queues up" a folder full of files,
and then offers to write them. That's presumably a
multi-session notion, where you can close a session,
and add a new version of files to an open disc.

But that notion does not neatly align with
straight-out duplication of data DVDs. Nor is there
any mention of pipelining for low latency.

If I was doing it, I would read/RIP to ISO using
Imgburn, then burn to a blank with Imgburn. Which
takes roughly triple the time, due to the need to
run a Verify cycle on the finished product.

Pressed media, you order in lots of 10,000. To distribute
Hollywood content on burn-able data DVDs using a duplicator
box like the one above, the movie will need to be re-encoded
to fit whatever limits the media has. Dual layer media is
usually a bit more expensive (or may have federal taxes levied),
giving an incentive to use DIVX or the like to store the Hollywood
movie in a lower quality format suited for 4.7GB discs.

Paul


Thanks, I found a one-step on-the-fly method with Nero 12 that seems
to work OK.

https://postimg.org/image/j0v60d9np/

I thought Windows10 might have had an equivalent.

The Windows OSes are not totally devoid of support
for optical media, but they're not a replacement for
third-party tools either.

An irritant for me, was a Windows burning process
produced a coaster, on a burner that *never* makes
coasters here. I do not recollect any Imgburn failures
doing the same kind of things.

Paul

On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 04:20:06 -0500 "Paul" wrote in
article
An irritant for me, was a Windows burning process
produced a coaster, on a burner that *never* makes
coasters here. I do not recollect any Imgburn failures
doing the same kind of things.

Slightly O.T., but speaking of discs... I burn a lot of
audio CD's from location recordings of local chamber
music groups. Some have wound up at mastering studios to
become commercial recordings. Folks at the studios
aimed me a EAC ("Exact Audio Copy"), a free program that
will extract audio from a CD and/or verify its error status.
The mastering people wanted a burned CD from me with NO
errors, correctable or otherwise. EAC is very useful.