Copying movie DVDs involve a couple of steps. First, stick the movie into your computer's dvd drive and see how big the file size is. It's usually 9 Gigs or so, which we'll refer to as DVD9. Normal DVD+/-R discs are half that, around 4.5 Gigs. If the movie is DVD9 you'd have to first "rip" the DVD and save it on the harddrive. Then you have to use a compressor to compress the movie into half. Then burn. If the movie is 4.5 Gigs or less, then you can just copy it direct.
The programs I use are "DVD Decrypter" to rip, "DVD2one" to compress, and Nero to burn.
The most important thing about getting good results, are the discs that you use and the drive that you have. Some are better than others.
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