In a nutshell, these are the steps you have to perform to make a true digital backup copy of your movie DVD. Both the video and audio tracks are copied bit- by-bit without any changes. Hollywood studios do not want you to have this knowledge, and definitely do not want you to do this. The only changes are navigation information and virtual commands which direct the DVD player to play or to skip certain unwanted titles (warnings, intros), or chapters (in case of disc splitting). More detaied information are presented in other sections of this web site.

   Step 1. Copy and decrypt the movie DVD to a local hard drive. There are many excellent freeware tools readily available to do this task for you with just a few clicks and at absolutely no cost. We prefer SmartRipper and DVD Decrypter for their excellent reliability, speed, and ease of use.




   Step 2. Fit the contents of the video DVD into a recordable DVD-R.
DVD-Replica does this job for you with just a few clicks.

provides many reauthoring functions
to let you back up a video DVD by title,
by video title set, split a long title,
or groups of titles into two playable DVD-Rs.

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   Step 3. Record the output files by DVD-Replica to your DVD-R. Pick your favorite choice of DVD recording software such as to record the reauthored titles, or use the freeware tool  to burn your DVD-Video files.

Read our
on how to use this tool to create your video DVD.

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on how to use this tool to create your video DVD.

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
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copyright infringement that you may perform.



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