DVD Related

This software can be used to make an ISO copy of your DVDs or to make an additional disk copy of a DVD.  Copying of commercial DVD is illegal and should not be done for any reason. Please only use this software to copy DVDs that you own the rights to.

Free ISO Burner

Free ISO Burner can directly burn your ISO and CD/DVD image file to CD-R,CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW,HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc, no need mount any "virtual drives" which emulate physical CDs or DVDs, it write any data directly.

http://www.freeisoburner.com/


DVD Shrink

This famous software is one of the best ways to "backup" your DVDs. You can have a 6.4GB DVD and shrink it to 4.5GB(standard DVD size) as you create an ISO image on your computer. This is handy when you want to "backup" a dual layer DVD onto a single layer DVD.  The people that produce this free app do not host the application on their website.  But I have listed some official download links below.

Official Website:
http://www.dvdshrink.org/what_en.php

Download Links:
Softpedia Mirror (US)

Softpedia Mirror (RO)

 


Magic Disc

This handy piece of software will create a virtual DVD drive on your computer.  Why might you want to do this you ask? Well lets say you are going to take a road trip and you have 4 movies you want to bring along but you don't want to loose the actual DVDs. You can "rip" these DVDs to your hard drive into an ISO format. Then with Magic Disc you can mount these ISO images to the virtual DVD drive and you will be watching you movie straight off your hard drive in full DVD quality with no DVD or annoying DVD spinning sound.  Magic Disc is also one of the only DVD emulators that is Windows 7 compatible.

http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm


DVD Decrypter

DVD Decrypter is one of the best programs for burning DVD ISOs or creating a DVD ISO.  This program will read encrypted DVDs but has no shrinking capabilities. If the DVD is 4.5+ gigs you will need a dual layer burner and disk to copy create a copy.  You can always just create an ISO on your hard drive and play the movie with a DVD emulator.

http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/