Does anyone here know how to make back-up copies of pre-recorded DVD's?

[FunkyMonkee]

I've got several TV series on DVD's that were made/sold by Warner Brothers and several of them are badly flawed. They'll play perfectly fine the first time or two but, after that, they'll at least do one of several things:
1. They skip and stutter and will take an hour or so to get through a very short section by playing only one frame every 2 or 3 minutes. When they finally DO get past the flaw, they've skipped over several minutes of the show and there's no way you can ever watch that bit again! In some cases, they'll do this shit on the very first play!
2. They refuse to play at all!
3. They'll play part way through and then the rest of the DVD is now BLANK!!
4. In one case, I bought a factory sealed copy of a 4 DVD set and there was only 3 of the 4 in the box! I contacted the company and said I JUST want the one missing DVD they neglected to put into the set. They refused to send it to me! (A multi-billion dollar company like that can't afford to send me a fucking DVD that only costs them 50c to make?) They already got my money for the set! The mistake was THEIRS, NOT MINE!! I'm not about to risk buying another copy and find THAT one is ALSO missing that disc! It was obviously intentional because, of the 4 sets of that series, that is the only one that could house ONLY 3 DVD's!
So, before I lose anymore of this material I paid all that money for, I wanna make copies so that, IF the rest of those discs go bad on me, I still have a copy either on blank DVD's and/or a hard drive/jump drive!!

[sawno]

Yes, but they do need to read properly and in the best method they won't be exact duplicates (You can try that using more complicated methods) but you will be able to keep a digital copy of the content.

First of all your gonna need a Windows PC with a DVD drive, second you need a tool called MakeMKV which is currently free. It will allow you to turn the video content into a single video file. Works for Blu-Ray to.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/2ode9wBADrA

[FunkyMonkee]

Thanks! I'll see if I can give it a try. Will it copy videos from discs that now claim they are blank?

[sawno]

No, if its gone its gone. This one does do a good job with copy protected disks but I doubt it will read damaged disks. Windows will probably struggle to much.

[FunkyMonkee]

I'll have to find someone that has a copy and copy theirs.
The discs aren't physically damaged, except for one or two plays, they're factory fresh. They just refuse to play anymore past a certain point.

[sawno]

Maybe thats a copy protection your player can't handle. This method may work.

[FunkyMonkee]

It handled it perfectly fine the first time or two that I played them

[jshm2]

Check for damage on the CD's and repair. If that is not it then get a copy of CDroller and extract what you can.

[FunkyMonkee]

What's CDroller?
The discs are in perfect physical condition. No scratches at all or at least no more than one or two extremely small ones (in some cases) but, I've got a couple DVD's that are LOADED with scratches and still play perfectly fine!

[strateguy632]

you can't they have a program called copy protect so the dvd writer won't do it.

[Anonymous]

Buy them used and then if they fail do it again

So far I've not had an issue, my dad has run a few discs out and just replaced them because used you can buy 3 for the price of a new one

[FunkyMonkee]

One is a fairly collectible 40-disc set that, even a used copy, will run into wuite a few bucks just to replace that one disc.

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah that scale is different

[legman528]

I do the same as sawno.

[exitseven]

There are 3rd party programs that can do this.