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DVDXCopy 1.5.2 1 Feb 2004
This method will not be fast, but the burnt DVDs will play in any player.
On various forums I have seen a lot of complaining about this program and Platinum.
There also seem to be more install problems with Platinum.
One problem is that these programs have no Burn-Proof protection and have no way to set the burn speed. Also, the native Gear burn engine is not very stable, hogs a lot of memory, and can?t tolerate other activity going on while burning.
I have finally found a way to get good burns every time with DVDXCopy 1.5.2., AND IT WILL LET YOU BURN AS MANY COPIES AS YOU WANT NOW OR LATER.
1-Put source DVD in DVD-rom, open DVDXCOPY, and when ready to copy, click the Advanced Options button. Here you enable ?External Nero program?, then close the advanced options button. Of course, Nero must be installed on your computer.
2-DO NOT have a dvd blank in the burner.
3-Now let DVDXCopy copy the first half split image to the Temp folder, and when this is completed, open up the destination Temp file and copy the DVDXCopy folder to a different drive or folder with a different name, say Folder B
4-Shut down DVDXCopy completely, and start up Nero. If you shut down DVDXCopy before copying the image to folder B, the image is erased as part of the DVDXCopy shut-down procedure.
5-In Nero, set it to DVD mode and click on Nero Express.
Then click on DVD_VIDEO FILES.
6-This opens up the Video Files Screen, which will show 2 files already in the Window. Leave these 2 files, called Videos_TS and Audio_TS in there, and click on ADD button.
This opens ?Select Files and Folders? Window.
7- In the Select Files and Folders window you browse to the Second copy of the ?first half split image?, you copied to folder B. Now open up the DVDXCOPY folder inside, and hi-lite the contents, and then click ADD button in the lower right corner of the Select Files and Folders Window.
8-Then click NEXT, and the Final Burn Settings screen comes up. HERE set the burn speed to the lowest speed your burner will do. I set my Plex 708A to 2.4X. Later on you can up the speed one notch to experiment. I know that the plex never fails at 2.4X with movies and the copies will play on any player. At 8X AND 4X it always burns and the copies work fine on the Computer, but often not on stereo DVD-player.(I regularly copy data and Music at 8X). In the options Screen I verify that Burn-Proof and Overburn are on.
10- Click burn
11-After burn is completed, you can make another copy by repeating the Nero burn steps(5 through 10 above), or you can save the file in folder B for burning another copy later?.or erase it.
12-Once finished with the first half image of the movie, start up DVDXCopy and repeat the whole procedure for the seconf halt image.
Remember that before you start ?tp Copy?, you must open the ?Advanced Options? and click on ?Skip Directly to Disk 2?.
Using this method, shutting down DVDXCopy completely between halves, gets you faster reads for dvd 2, which under the usual method often took 60 to 85 min for the read of the second half compared to 15 min for the first half.
This also works with DVDX?Platinum, but with Platinum there also seems to be more complaints about poor installs, which in turn can lead to several other types of problems resulting in failed burns, or in certain screens not showing up.
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