How to copy a DVD?

[Alan Dayley]

Josef Lowder said:
>
> I've done as suggested, but it still doesn't work.
> (wasting lots of DVD blanks here ...)

I know how frustrating that is!  Can your computer play DVDs?  If so, it
would be a good idea to use a DVD-RW to do test burns and see if the
computer can play the result as a DVD.  If it plays as a DVD on the
computer, to the same procedure with your DVD-R for the final copy burn.

> But when I choose  Tools->DVD->Burn DVD ISO image

Did you try the Tools->DVD->Copy DVD... menu item?  That will take care of
the "burn image" step for you.  In other words, that command will read the
source DVD, eject it, asking for the blank destination DVD and then burn
it.  Simple.  Did that work?

> In my multiple previous attempts, I tried dragging the copied DVD
> file to "New data DVD project" which is similar to the procedure
> I have used to successfully burn CDs, but the result of that has
> been a coaster.

I would expect that your player would not play the DVD, making it a
coaster, since that procedure produces a copy of the ISO image file as
data, not as a playable DVD.

> Very frustrating.

I know what you are going through.  At the beginning of last summer I
authored a DVD for the first time on Linux.  Wow.  I thought I'd start
punching walls or taking a baseball bat to the computer.  Just remember to
breathe.

> Also, responding to some other more recent comments,
> I am burning at 4x speed onto a DVD-R (not RW) and the player
> I am using is a brand new DVD player that claims to play all DVD
> and CD formats.

You should be good then.  Do the Tools->DVD->Copy DVD... command.

Alan