Can anybody help with dvd burner question!?

Question

Is it possible for me to use a pc without a dvd burner to load a dvd using dvd shrink onto the hard drive and then somehow transfer it to a pc with a dvd burner and burn it? (The pc with the burner not reading the dvd with dvd shrink but the other pc is). Also, what is a data and ISO file? Thanks!

Answer 1

Well, I'll start with your second question first. A data file is exactly that a file with data (e.g. your Word documents) which differs from a video file. An ISO file is an image file. As an analogy, try to imagine a photo you take. If you use a digital camera and you took a picture of your dog then you can load it on to your computer and edit it, take out the red eye or decrease the shadows...etc. If however you use a Kodak Instant camera and took a polariod then what you see is what you get. You can not alter a polariod. Now going back to an ISO file, when you use DVD Shrink, the program compresses the DVD movie from a size of 8 GB to a size of 4.7GB. Now, you can burn the 4.7GB movie on to a single layered DVD blank. This is what I mean when I talked about a digital photo. In contrast, if you create an ISO image of the DVD movie, you can not alter it. If the size of the movie was 8GB then the ISO image is 8GB. This is what I mean when I talked about a polariod.

As for your first question, technically you can do what you describe but there are some obstacles. The biggest obstacle is the size of the movie. Even using DVD Shrink, the movie would be 4.7 GB, far too much to fit on a USB jump drive. In addition, uploading the movie on to the Internet and then downloading it to the PC with the burner is not feasible. It takes far too long to upload a 4.7 GB file on to the Internet. Even with fast cable, it will take you roughly 2-4 hours to upload and another 2 hours to download it. The only way I think is feasible is to use an external hard drive. Save the movie from the first PC to the hard drive then connect the hard drive to the second PC and have it burn the movie on to a DVD. To be honest, I think it woud be best if you purchased an external DVD burner ( a decent one will cost you $90 USD at Newegg.com.).

Answer 2

Should be able to. The way i would do (not particularly technically minded so have never heard of DVD shrink) is rip the dvd and then save it to a memory card / stick or, if the file is small enough, do a draft email and save the draft with the attachment. Then open the email on the other computer. Either that or blue tooth it across if you have that facility. No idea what the data and ISO are although i imagine the data is the information that runs the dvd but don't know for sure.

Answer 3

It's pretty messy out there for file types.The file might have to be recognized as a DVD file. If you have a program like Nero 7 and there is an ISO file in your computer you X2 L click the ISO file and it is burned to the CD/DVD.After the ISO file is burned it is many files on the CD/DVD instead of one.An advantage to ISO is that you can keep making copies.

Answer 4

Sorry cant help with the first part of your question but if u get a portable hard drive u can connect it to the burner equipped p.c as I used to do when I was 2 poor 2 have the luxury of broadband at my flat ! One of my workmates had a mega-fast business broadband connection I would give him a wish-list of films he would down load them on to my portable hard drive.When he had the films on my list I would take the portable drive home connect it to my PC via my usb 2 connection and burn it on my PC using I think at that time clone DVD hope that helps a bit !!!!!!

Answer 5

Yes, you could run an application like DVDx to rip the original dvd to your first hard drive and then copy it to your Writing PC hard drive.

Given the size of the file though you had better network them together.

Don't break the law though. It's not nice!

Answer 6

all you can do is try....idont know the answer to iso file