V 1.0 TABLE OF CONTENTS LEGAL AGREEMENT AND STATEMENT.............................................................................................. 3 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................ 4 The free software we will use: .................................................................................................................. 4 User Pre-requisites .................................................................................................................................... 5 System Requirements ................................................................................................................................ 5 Windows Vista Installation ....................................................................................................................... 5 Note on Compression of DVD Contents ................................................................................................... 6 Backup Methods to be Used ..................................................................................................................... 7 Legend ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 Install Software ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Rip Contents of DVD to Hard Drive Using DVDFab HD Decrypter ....................................................... 8 Introduction to DVD Shrink 3.2 ............................................................................................................. 10 The Anatomy of DVD Shrink for “Full Disc” Backup ....................................................................... 10 The Anatomy of DVD Shrink for “Re-Author” Backup .................................................................... 11 Understanding the Size Indicator ............................................................................................................ 12 All Green ............................................................................................................................................. 12 Green with Red ................................................................................................................................... 12 Green with Gray .................................................................................................................................. 12 Compressing with DVD Shrink 3.2 ........................................................................................................ 13 Burning the Contents to a Blank DVD Disk Using ImgBurn ................................................................. 19 BURNING TO DUAL LAYER DVD WRITABLE DISKS .................................................................. 23 What does Dual Layer mean? ............................................................................................................. 23 What is a Layer Break? ....................................................................................................................... 23 Media .................................................................................................................................................. 23 Burn Speed .......................................................................................................................................... 23 How to burn to dual layer Media ........................................................................................................ 24 CONFIGURATION .................................................................................................................................... 34 Configure DVD Shrink ........................................................................................................................... 34 Configure the Book Type in ImgBurn .................................................................................................... 39 Using ImgBurn to Change the Book Type .......................................................................................... 40 Changing the Book Type for DVD+RW Media After Contents Are Written .................................... 45 Trial and Error ..................................................................................................................................... 46 TROUBLE SHOOTING ............................................................................................................................. 47 LEGAL AGREEMENT AND STATEMENT PLEASE CONSIDER THIS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOURSELF (THE END USER) AND THE PUBLISHER AND/OR AUTHOR OF THIS GUIDE. 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Results that you may get will vary from the examples in this guide as they depend on your knowledge, ability, background and other factors beyond the knowledge and control of the publisher and/or author. Copyright © 2008 Backupmydvd.com. All rights reserved. INTRODUCTION Ever since 2002-2003, when the popularity of DVDs surged and outpaced VHS tapes, people have been building their movie collections. Although people have always collected movies, somehow the popularity of DVD media introduced more consumers to the idea of building a movie library. These people have invested thousands of dollars in growing their DVD collections. Unfortunately, DVDs are readily prone to damage. They can be easily nicked and scratched, and if you couple this with a finicky player, you have problems. One solution to this problem is to buy 2 DVDs of each title. You can use one and keep one in a safe location. As you can imagine, this is an impractical and costly proposition. The other, more practical way to protect your DVD collection, is to make backup copies for frequent use. This way your original DVDs stay safely tucked away. This guide will show you how to do this, with freely available software that is next to none. The free software we will use: This will be used to compress contents, so that they are DVD Shrink able to fit on a standard 4.7GB DVD writable. This will be used to overcome copy protection and rip DVDFab HD Decrypter contents from a DVD disk to your hard drive. An older ripping and burning program that is used by DVD Decrypter Ripit4me to rip contents to the hard disk. This is a facilitator program that uses DVD Decrypter by adding new functionality to it, in order to overcome Ripit4me various copy protection schemes so that a backup can be made. Sometimes this process succeeds where DVDFab HD Decrypter may fail. ImgBurn This will be used to burn contents to a DVD disk. It is important to note that backup discs are not guaranteed to work in all standalone DVD players. This is especially true for lower cost and older players. Vendors of DVD backup and DVD authoring software realize that there are just too many variables to guarantee that all backed up and user