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Alright, so I have a DVD of a concert I played a couple years ago, and I was thinking that I should rip it so I can just send the video to other people via email or AIM or something instead of having to loan the DVD out to everyone who wants to see it. I'm not trying to steal videos. I just want my concert saved to my computer. What's a good program for doing this?

Nero Burning Rom can do this easily. Just select Image Recorder and run the Copy CD wizard. It'll want you to save it as an ISO though, but you can mount that with daemon tools and play it with any software DVD player.

Look for DVD Decrypter (it is free). However, e-mailing DVD video is an exercise in pain as the files are so huge. If you have ~$70 you could buy a DVD burner instead.

phongn wrote:Look for DVD Decrypter (it is free). However, e-mailing DVD video is an exercise in pain as the files are so huge. If you have ~$70 you could buy a DVD burner instead.

$70?

In Canada, you can get DVD burners for $60 CDN.

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My DVD-burner add-on to my Dell laptop was over $200!!!

DVD Shrink is a good program to copy DVD's with

There are many things you could try here. Copying the DVD is one, but if you don't have a DVD burner and you aren't all that interested in quality, you can make a VCD which will play in most DVD players and will fit on a standard CD.

If you don't care about playing in DVD players, you can also use a high compression format such as WM9 or MPEG4 in order to shrink the video down to the size of a CD, yet have most of the quality remain. The only problem here is that the discs will probably only play on a computer, not a DVD player (not most of them anyways).

If you really want to be able to show it to a bunch of different people over the web and don't want to bother with sending CD's, you can always upload a highly compressed streaming version to a website if you have one. This is the lowest quality choice, but it would also work,

HemlockGrey wrote:!!!

My DVD-burner add-on to my Dell laptop was over $200!!!

burners and such designed specifically for laptops tend to be significantly more expensive than those made for desktops.

phongn wrote:Look for DVD Decrypter (it is free). However, e-mailing DVD video is an exercise in pain as the files are so huge. If you have ~$70 you could buy a DVD burner instead.

If that's the case, then wouldn't DVD Shrink be a better solution then? Granted, the video will look like utter crap when you compress it down THAT far (to be a viable filesize to be sent via e-mail)...

Best bet would be to compress it down until it'll fit onto a single CD-R and mail/give it out.

Just DIVX it if you wanna send it around...