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#257454 - 01/06/2005 05:41 How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31604
Loc: Seattle, WA
I have a home movie recorded on a Minus-R disc. It won't play on my desktop computer's DVD drive. That drive will play Plus+R's just fine, so I want to turn this minus-R into a plus+R so that I can play this home movie at my leisure.

My wife, purely by coincidence, just got a Vaio laptop with a DVD burner. It comes with Sonic RecordNow (formerly Roxio formerly Adaptec EZ CD Creator, if I understand the genealogy correctly).

I insert the Minus-R disc into the laptop and it plays fine. I run the RecordNow software and ask it to make an exact copy. It dutifully reads the contents of the source disc and buffers it on the hard drive. Then I insert a blank Plus+R disc into the drive and it tells me the destination disc is different type from the source disc so it can't make an exact copy. Sigh.

Can anyone help?
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#257455 - 01/06/2005 06:26 Re: How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R [Re: tfabris]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
Never used that software, but can't you just ask it to make an ISO of the original disc and then burn the image onto a fresh disc? I've copied DVDs onto DVD-Rs using that method.
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#257456 - 01/06/2005 06:58 Re: How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R [Re: tfabris]
crazymelki
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Registered: 16/02/2001
Posts: 373
Loc: Switzerland
I would try to create first an ISO File form the original DVD-R and then burn this ISO to the new DVD+R.

bye
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#257457 - 01/06/2005 07:15 Re: How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R [Re: crazymelki]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31604
Loc: Seattle, WA
Thanks, AndyM and CrazyMelki. I will try that.
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#257458 - 01/06/2005 07:27 Re: How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R [Re: crazymelki]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31604
Loc: Seattle, WA
Darn. And the idea sounded so correct.

Exact same error message, "The media inserted does not match the source media" or some such like that.

Sigh.
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#257459 - 01/06/2005 08:55 Re: How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R [Re: tfabris]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
Quote:
so that I can play this home movie at my leisure.


Can't you just copy the .VOB files off of the -R onto a +R? I didn't think there was anything particularly clever about video DVDs.
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#257460 - 01/06/2005 09:30 Re: How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R [Re: tfabris]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
Huh?

Linux: cat /dev/dvd > dvd.iso
Then use k3b (point and click GUI) to burn dvd.iso onto a fresh disc.

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#257461 - 01/06/2005 12:09 Re: How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R [Re: tfabris]
eliceo
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Registered: 18/02/2002
Posts: 335
Thats really weird. Ive never had any issues with ISO burning, Nero seems much more useful than easy cd creator. You should be able to get a demo of Nero from their website, oem versions are like 10 bucks I think.

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#257462 - 01/06/2005 13:42 Re: How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R [Re: tfabris]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
That is really strange, I don't think I've ever come across that problem, although I do use k3b almost exclusively nowadays, unless I'm burning on my iBook, it really is a nice piece of software.
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#257463 - 01/06/2005 16:21 Re: How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R [Re: Roger]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31604
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Can't you just copy the .VOB files off of the -R onto a +R? I didn't think there was anything particularly clever about video DVDs.

I know nothing about them, so if this were true, I wouldn't know. Anyone else think this will work?
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#257464 - 01/06/2005 16:27 Re: How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R [Re: tfabris]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
yup. Put them in the VIDEO_TS directory on the new disc.
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#257465 - 01/06/2005 18:01 Re: How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R [Re: tfabris]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
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Can't you just copy the .VOB files off of the -R onto a +R? I didn't think there was anything particularly clever about video DVDs.

I know nothing about them, so if this were true, I wouldn't know. Anyone else think this will work?

It won't work if the DVD is a CSS encrypted one but you can't use CSS on a writable DVD so yes, in this case it would work.

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#257466 - 04/06/2005 19:08 Re: How to copy a DVD-R to a DVD+R [Re: JBjorgen]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31604
Loc: Seattle, WA
I forgot to update, just remembered now... Yes, that worked like a charm. Simply burning the files onto the new disc worked.

I am surprised that the "Sonic" product didn't just do that for me automatically.
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