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DVD-Replica is a software tool to backup and reauthor unencrypted video DVDs. Commercial video DVDs can be converted to unencrypted video DVDs with freeware ripping tools such as SmartRipper or DVD Decrypter. You can use this software in conjunction with any DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any video DVD. You can use the freeware burning tool Burn At Once to burn the backup copy of your DVDs.

DVD-Replica does not burn DVDs. The output from DVD-Replica is saved as files on your hard drive, which you can then burn to a recordable DVD-R using a separate burning (recording) software, such as Nero Burning Rom, or any recording software provided with your DVD-R drive.

To make a backup copy of your movie DVD, you need to perform the following steps:

   Step 1. Copy and decrypt the movie DVD to a local hard drive. Most commercial DVD titles produced by major Hollywood studios are designed to prevent typical computer users from making copies, even for your own personal need.

The first preventative measure is video data encryption. The widely used encryption scheme known as CSS (Contents Scrambling System) prevents the original data on the DVD to reach your local hard drive if a straight copy is done. If you manage to perform a straight copy from an encrypted video DVD, the contents of the copied files are not the same as the original data on the DVD, and therefore will not play back properly. Fortunately, there are excellent freeware tools readily available to do this task with just a few clicks.




   Step 2. Fit the contents of the video DVD into one recordable DVD-R. This problem is not so easy. Most commercial DVD video titles are about 5 to 7 gigabytes in size which are too large to fit, onto a single recordable DVD-R disk. There are two methods to overcome this problem: reencoding and reauthoring.
Reencoding may not be desirable due to the loss of original video quality and this process may take a long time on slower computers. Most video DVD titles comprise of a main movie title and many extra titles such as movie trailers, director's comments, coming attractions, etc. The main movie title may include two versions, normal and wide screen, each version is a title on the video DVD. Reauthoring takes advantage of this architecture and let you decide what titles to keep and what features to discard. This approach is fast and has the advantage of keeping the original video and audio quality of the DVD intact.

   Step 3. Record the output files by DVD-Replica to your recordable media. This is the last and easy step. Pick your favorite DVD recording software such as Nero Burning Rom or the freeware tool Burn At Once to record the reauthored titles.






DVD-Replica provides many reauthoring functions
to let you back up a video DVD by title,
back up a video title set with menu,
split a long movie title,
groups of titles into two playable DVD-Rs,
or perform automatic splitting with a single click.


WARNING
The information presented on the following pages illustrates how to
backup compliant Video-DVDs to DVD±RW / DVD±R media.
The software tools and information presented on these pages
work with unencrypted DVD files only and are not made
to create illegal copies of copyrighted DVD material.

Please record responsibly.
Before copying anything onto a recordable media including
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R or DVD-RW
please be sure that you are excersizing your fair use rights
under the copyright law of your country
and not violating any local copyright laws.

DISCLAIMER
The software from this web site is designed to assist you
in reproducing only the material in which you own the copyright or
for which you have obtained permission to copy from the copyright owner.
Unless you own the copyright or
hold permission to copy from the copyright owner,
you may be violating copyright law and may be subject to
payment of damages and other remedies.

If you are uncertain about your rights in a court of law,
you should contact your legal counsel before proceeding to download
or use the software products and/or information from this web site.
You assume full responsibility for the legal and
responsible use of the information and software downloaded or
acquired by any delivery method via this web site and its affiliates.

It is against the law in many countries to reproduce copyrighted material.
Some countries' laws only allow you to make a limited number of
backup copies of any software or media
for personal and archival purposes.
By browsing this site you also acknowledge that you are
the sole "Owner" of all copyrighted material that might be reproduced.
In no way this site and its affiliates are held responsible
for any violation or potential violations of
copyright infringement that you may perform.

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