How to back-up DVD's for Noobs ( With Video )

I am going to show you how to backup your DVDs. It is a very easy process and only takes an hour or so. First I would like to say that I am not liable for any actions you may take, ripping or burning DVD's is currently illegal in the United States. So please only copy movies you own and do not distribute them. I only wanna show how to burn DVDs with original menus to protect movies from being lost and scratches and such.

Step 1 Hardware and Software Needed

Step 1

HARDWARE
You need
DVD burner
few gigs of free space
blank DVDs (4.7 gig)
A movie to back up

SOFTWARE
DVD shrink link softpedia link

DVD decrypter link link

Comments

[BADWOLF1]

cool the tv picture is hunt for red october

[bassbindevil]

DVD Shrink and Decrypter haven't been updated for years, so they will fail with some more recent DVDs.   Try DVDFab (even after the demo period expires, it'll still do basic back-ups).   If you want to shrink it further (like remove unwanted languages or extras so it'll fit on a 4.7), use DVD Shrink on the files that DVDFab ripped.

Imgburn is free software that is basically the burner portion of Decrypter, but updated and enhanced.  It's the only burner software I use now.

[joejoerowley]

Nice, looks very similar to my instructable though.

[srhadaham]

except for his is shorter and less of a read

[sweny]

 haha , thankyou for the defense :)