How do you burn dvds (ones that you own)?

Question

I've downloaded movies offline before and burned them using Microsoft DVD Maker. I have a pretty new computer and it has Vista. I have a dvd burner that I've used to burn the movies I've downloaded. However, I want to burn a copy of all the dvds I own incase they ever get scratched or stolen. Does anyone know how I do that? If put in the dvd do I somehow rip it to my computer and then put it in a blank dvd and burn it to that or do you have to put in the dvd and the blank dvd at the same time? I only have one slot to insert one at a time in. Sorry I know this is probably not that hard I'm just not very good with computers.

so does DVDshrink rip the dvd to my computer and compress it and then I take out the dvd and put in a blank one to burn it on?

Answer 1

dvd shrink is for dvds that are copyright protected
it will decrypt the dvd and yes, rip it to your computer into what is called a dvd folder file, then you will need what is called a third party (seperate) software for burning the dvd to disc
if you are going to use dvd shrink it is reccomended that you get nero burning software as dvd shrink was made to work automatically with nero

Answer 2

Use DVDShrink, it's free and has worked for every DVD I wanted to back up.