The DVD Software category includes programs for managing, reading, converting, and creating DVDs. The directory also contains DVD copy software for making legal duplicates of unencrypted discs. It does not contain any products for breaking DVD encryption.

DVD copy protection

PTProtect is a new software program built within Primera’s PTPublisher duplication software that provides a reliable and effective anti-rip solution for protecting DVD Video by preventing unauthorised duplication.

DVD copy freeware

DVD Copy Freeware performs a variety of functions, including DVD decrypting (remove copyprotection and free region code), DVD copying (also known as ripping, cloning or duplicating), and DVD burning. The DVD burning functions are also usually PAL and NTSC compatible and can burn to a variety of disk types including single and dual layer disks, so the burned disk can play on PC DVD players and standard DVD players. As mentioned, Any DVD Clone software fulfills a wide range of DVD software needs, from DVD decrypting to DVD burning.

Remove dvd copy protection

AnyDVD works in the background to automatically remove the copy protection of a DVD movie as soon as it's inserted into the drive, allowing you then to backup the movie using a DVD backup tool such as DVD Copy and DVD Cloner. You can also remove the RPC region code, thereby making the movie region free and viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software.

Vhs to dvd software

the Roxio Easy VHS to DVD kit. It’s great value for money, allowing you to archive your VHS and tape cassette collections using one piece of kit. It’s simple and easy to use, with great end results possible.

DVD burning software

DVD Burning Software they can be referring to many tasks. For example DVD Burning could mean DVD Copying to someone while it also means creating a DVD out of home videos to another. So I decided to help out and explain the differences between all the different DVD Burning Software titles currently available. I broke them down into groups, the first being standard/regular burning apps that can burn audio/video/data to a DVD. The other group is a much more advanced type of burning software where in addition to the above you can also watch DVD's, Author DVD's, Copy, Data Backup, and Label DVD's. These are called "Media" software because they include a bundle of apps that deal with everthing your DVD burner could ever want.

DVD, which is once stood for Digital Video Disc and later Digital Versatile Disc, is now just "DVD". It is no longer an acronym that it once was. DVD is today's premiere format for video, audio, and data storage. In this tutorial, we'll explore the physical characteristics of the DVD format and its data capacity, and see what makes it different from the audio Compact Disc (CD) format with which we're all familiar. Once we talk about physical format of DVD, we'll explore the various application formats of DVD: DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, and DVD-ROM.

As a disc, DVD looks very much like the CD. Both are shiny discs that are 4 3/4 inches (12.0 cm) in diameter. Both are optical formats containing digital information. This means a laser pickup is used to read the digital data encoded on the disc. But that's where the similarities end.

DVD is actually a family of physical and application formats. As far as the physical format, DVD can hold anywhere from seven times to over 25 times the digital data on a CD, depending on the the disc's construction. Additionally, the DVD may be used for video, audio, or data storage applications as a DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, or DVD-ROM application format, respectively.

Alcohol 120%, is a powerful Windows CD and DVD burning software that makes it easy to create backups of DVDs* and CDs. Additionaly, the program lets you store your most used CDs as images on your computer, and you can mount them on 1 of the 31 virtual drives with a click of a button. Our burning software includes a Pre-Mastering function which lets you burn files directly from your hard drive, and supports Blu-ray format and HD DVD.Compatible with all Windows 32 and 64 bit operating systems up to Windows 7 Home users make backup copies of their game CDs and movie DVDs*, allowing the kids to treat multimedia disks roughly, without destroying their value. Librarians and school administrators use Alcohol 120% burning software to archive their institutions' collections of recordable media, protecting themselves against the daily wear and tear that damages discs. Business users use Alcohol 120% burning software to make duplicate backup copies of software titles, ensuring that they will continue to have access to their licensed software, even if their physical CDs become damaged and unusable.

Converting home videos to DVD is a great way to preserve, share and enhance those old tapes that may be aging not too gracefully and "do it yourself" tape to DVD conversion can be easy and affordable.  If you want to transfer VHS to DVD, several options exist for the VHS to DVD conversion and, if done right, the DVD's can look even better than the original VHS tapes (for simplicity sake I use VHS, but this process also applies to VHS-C, SVHS, Hi8, regular, even Beta). There are a few methods to convert VHS to DVD: - Capture the VHS video to a computer video editing program using an analog-to-DV converter (which includes many DV/Digital8 camcorders as well as standalone analog-to-DV converters), encode it to MPEG-2 and author a DVD, This is the most time-consuming method but it gives you the flexibility to edit the video as much as you want, adding transitions, special effects, music, etc. But, between the capture time, the editing time and the often considerable time it takes for software encoding to MPEG-2, this can result in several hours of work for your computer and you for each hour of video. - Capture the video to the computer as MPEG-2 using hardware capture devices that convert the VHS to MPEG-2 as they capture and then author and burn a DVD. A one-hour video is captured and compressed to MPEG-2 in one hour, but you are generally limited to doing "cuts-only" editing of the MPEG-2 files. However, if your original tape doesn't need editing this is a fast way to convert VHS to DVD, but still have the flexibility to create custom DVD menus. Many of the inexpensive hardware analog-to-MPEG boxes can deliver very good quality, in part because the analog source video does not have to be converted to DV before being encoded to MPEG. Converting VHS to DV can add artifacts that make it harder to get good MPEG compression. - Connect your VHS VCR or camcorder to a standalone DVD recorder that works much like a VCR. This VHS to DVD recorder basically gives you a DVD copy of your tape in real time. You don't have a lot of flexibility as far as menus, buttons and chapter settings, but it's the fastest and easiest way to convert VHS to DVD. If you get a "DVD VCR" with Firewire connections you can plug a DV/Digital8/DVCAM camcorder or VCR into it and transfer the tapes to DVD at even higher quality than by using the analog connections.

No matter which method you use, you need to ensure that the analog video has the highest quality possible: flaws in the original video may be greatly magnified when you encode it to MPEG-2 and convert it to DVD.

AnyDVD works in the background to automatically remove DVD copy-protection as soon as it's inserted into the drive, allowing you then to backup the movie using a DVD backup tool such as CloneDVD. You can also remove the RPC region code, thereby making region free DVD viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software. AnyDVD is capable of removing unwanted movie features, including subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings. It also allows you to launch an external application whenever you insert or remove a disc, or prevent "PC-friendly" software from automatically launching when you insert a video DVD. Decryption is not all that AnyDVD offers. You can reduce the noise level of your DVD drive by controlling its speed when watching movies on your PC. You can even adjust the display frequency of your monitor for both NTSC and PAL displays. But AnyDVD doesn't just stop at DVDs. It also removes copy-protection from audio CDs to allow you to copy them.

If you are someone who collects movies then having DVD copy software is a must. Not only will a reliable program allow you to burn a copy protected DVD, but they serve as a tool for backing up your favorite movies as well. As you never know when disaster will strike, it is always good to backup DVD movies to be on the safe side. It certainly came in handy for this consumer, "I was glad I backed up my DVD movie collection when my basement flooded last year" Steven Darby from Portland, Maine. Other than DVD backups, the burner in your computer can be used for storing documents and multimedia content such as audio tracks, music videos, movie collections, presentations and much more. These tasks can be performed with the same DVD copy software used to copy DVD movies. In this article we will discuss the importance of DVD copy software and what you should look for in a program.

PTProtect software is applied to the DVD image during authoring so when content is burned to disc it is encapsulated with the PTProtect software. The encapsulated content on the DVD is then protected from access by common ripping programs. The content on the DVD is not modified in any way and because the copy control encapsulation sits in areas of the discs not read by the DVD players, play-back quality remains unaffected. PTProtect is a passive solution and therefore, does not load any software program onto the PC for the protection to work. In essence, PTProtect copy controlled discs are designed to provide effective “speed bump” protection from unauthorized casual copying. Copy controlled discs have full playability designed to match the same playability levels in DVD players as unprotected DVDs.

Dual layer refers to a DVD recording technology that provides users with 8.5GB of recording space (as opposed to 4.7GB of space) on a standard DVD+R discs).

Dual-layer recording (sometimes also known as double-layer recording) allows DVD-R and DVD+R discs to store significantly more data—up to 8.54 gigabytes per disc, compared with 4.7 gigabytes for single-layer discs. Along with this, DVD-DL's have slower write speeds as compared to ordinary DVD's and when played on a DVD player, a slight transition can be seen between the layers. DVD-R DL was developed for the DVD Forum by Pioneer Corporation; DVD+R DL was developed for the DVD+RW Alliance by Philips and Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (MKM).

A dual-layer disc differs from its usual DVD counterpart by employing a second physical layer within the disc itself. The drive with dual-layer capability accesses the second layer by shining the laser through the first semitransparent layer. In some DVD players, the layer change can exhibit a noticeable pause, up to several seconds. This caused some viewers to worry that their dual-layer discs were damaged or defective, with the end result that studios began listing a standard message explaining the dual-layer pausing effect on all dual-layer disc packaging.

DVD recordable discs supporting this technology are backward-compatible with some existing DVD players and DVD-ROM drives. Many current DVD recorders support dual-layer technology, and the price is now comparable to that of single-layer drives, although the blank media remain more expensive. The recording speeds reached by dual-layer media are still well below those of single-layer media.

There are two modes for dual-layer orientation. With Parallel Track Path (PTP), used on DVD-ROM, both layers start at the inside diameter (ID) and end at the outside diameter (OD) with the lead-out. With Opposite Track Path (OTP), used on many Digital Video Discs, the lower layer starts at the ID and the upper layer starts at the OD, where the other layer ends; they share one lead-in and one lead-out. However, some DVDs also use a parallel track, such as those authored episodically, as in a disc with several separate episodes of a TV series—where more often than not, the layer change is in-between titles and therefore would not need to be authored in the opposite track path fashion.