Don't buy into that rubbish. They are selling you modified versions of FreeWare.
DVD to CD-r programs are as follows. Bad scams. What they basically are doing is making you a VCD or SVCD. You can do that yourself with more powerful and stabletools for FREE!!!
Also, you can make yourself DivX movies or encode in any other type of format that tickles your fancy.
It does not work in the same sense as a DVD burner either. A DVD burner you can make a true 1:1 copy. With this softwareyou are mentioning here, what it does is compress an original down to a size that will fit onto a CD-r.
Basically, this is how it works. You will take the DVD and it will use some type of decryption program (DeCSS related) and decrypt the DVD toyour hard drive. From there, it will split the audio and video files from each other. It will then encode your video and compress it into the format you specify. So you will compress your 4.5G of Video down to 600 Meg of video. Then it will compress your audio from the size it is at and convert it to stereo and more than likely MP3 format dropping the size down to about 100Meg. Once that is finished it will then merge the files back together again and run a generic synch test and name the file to the desired name you specified.
Please make sure you understand this though, these programs, no matter how convenient are NOT a true DVD copy utility. They are changing the format and making it fit.
If you want to do this yourself, I recommend you go here: http://www.doom9.org Read the guides and download some software and do it yourself. You'll have better control and you can make yourself with almost lossless results. You can also visit me in #Mp4|EFNET for further assistance with this type of stuff.
Mrafrohead
