where did my question go? . .i have already posted a question asking assistance in finding a software to backup movies from pc ro dvd . .and i cant see it anywhere here . .can somebody reply to this one? and y was my earlier question removed..

Your DVD burner likely came with some software for that purpose.

Otherwise, Nero or Sonic or several others can do it. Not sure what you are actually looking for.

Are you looking to create DVDs that can play the movie on a home DVD player or just the data? Do they need to be converted?

I don't know why your previous post is unavailable.

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thanks a lot for the reply bryco . .i have lot of movies on my pc that i have dowloaded (600mb-700mb), most of them dvdrips.. .i just want make a backup of those movies to dvd.. and am looking 4 a software to copy those without losing the quality . .

... your question was likely removed since it was about how to burn 'illegal' copies of downloaded video files, acquired via some file sharing program

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ok i get it . .it was really old movies . .free classics ..ha ha! PIRACY IS BAAAAD !!!.... i have nero , is that enough to copy to dvd..should i burn it as a data dvd or something else ..plz help guyz.

NERO6 will suffice, have you read the manual ?

http://www.digital-digest.com/articles/nero_burning_rom_burn_dvd_page1.html

thanks a lot dosser . .

Well, either that or else wrong forum - this is more a question for the Digital Photo/Video forum

The purpose of a DVD Rip is to re encode a DVD video to create a file small enough to fit on a CD, either as a data file, or VCD/SVCD - as well as making it a quicker download via bittorent (or whatever)

Creating a data CD is pretty simple, re encoding to create a VCD a little trickier - Nero can do both, although some file formats are less easily converted (such as RMVB)

Putting DVDRips onto DVDs seems.... a little backwards, since there is (obviously) a loss of quality involved in shrinking them down in the first place - but you could fit many 700Mb video files onto one DVD

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thanks jboy
"but you could fit many 700Mb video files onto one DVD"

thats exactly what i want to do. .is it ok to write these files to dvd as data dvd in nero?

Well... yeah - that's really the simplest method, just copy the files to the DVD and use it as a removeable disc. Reencoding a bunch of files as a DVD video would be complicated and ill advised

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thanks a lot for all the help jboy..

Sure thing. If your intention is to only watch these videos on your computer, then burning them as data is the way to go.

Encoding as DVDs, VCDs or SVCDs is really just for the purpose of playing the movies on a standalone player - those tend to be somewhat fussy about what they will recognize as a video, whereas a computer can play pretty much any file, provided the right software is installed.

You can always use the files to create a video disc at some later date, if the need arises.

DVDRips are generally better for burning as VCDs or SVCDs - if you want to make a full length DVD, then you'd use an actual DVD image or file, for best quality and for any 'DVD extras' that may be on the original

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yes ,i only watch them in my pc ( VLCmedia player ) ...i just wanted to backup these movies so i could format and reinstall xp..i hope i wont lose any quality when i copy those movies back to my pc . .thanks again 4 all those info . . :)

Not to worry, copies of digital files are exact duplicates - it's only when you get into reencoding & compressing (codecs) that data may be lost

That's what was done to get those DVDRips from the original ~4.7Gb down to ~700Mb

Anyhow, it's advisable to have backups, so good plan

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