DVD to DVD copying

Now that prices of DVD burners and recordable DVD media are coming down rapidly, many people will get interested to learn how to copy an existing DVD-Movie to a blank DVD. This article will give some basics and an overview of available copy methods.

1. Issues related to DVD copying
   - Protection Mechanisms
   - Disc size
2. The DVD data structure
   - The audio_ts directory
   - The video_ts directory
3. DVD to DVD copy methods
   - Simple copying
   - The Rip and Re-encode method
   - The Editing method
   

1. Issues related to DVD copying

There are basically two types of issues making DVD to DVD copying more complex than CD to CD copying.