Posted by Stephen Stewart on 08/04/07 16:36

<kelly32@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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>I need some software to copy my home movies. I have a camcorder that
> write's to DVD-RW. I sent several of them to a compay to make a DVD
> movie. It has menus when you play it on TV, like a regular movie DVD.
> The compay said there is no copy protection or region restrictions.
>
> I have Sonic MyDVD 4.5. When I try to use the Direct-to-DVD wizard to
> copy the DVD to the harddrive (so I can copy it to a blank DVD next -
> I only have one drive...) I get the error "No valid DVD capture
> devices were present." Then is says to make sure it's NTCS format. I
> tried setting the preference to both NTCS and PAL. So Sonic MyDVD
> apparently doesn't come with what it needs to do what's in it's own
> menus.
>
> I can play that DVD on my computer with RealPlayer, Windows Media
> Player, and PowerDVD, and on TV with a regular DVD player. It's a bit
> dark with WMP, and the brightness setting doesn't work (WMP), but the
> other programs are okay.
>
> I have Windows XP Pro SP2.
>
> If someone can recommend a simple free program that is just for
> copying non-encrypted DVD's I would really appreciate it.
>

Try ImgBurn and you'll never look back.

It's written by LightningUK! who originally authored and has continued the
development of the burning engine originally found in DVD Decrypter.

http://www.imgburn.com/


Stephen

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