Jim Jones, If you want to be able to create DVD-Video with custom Menus you could try DVDStyler an Open Source example of what a really quite amazing DVD all media formats creator should be, as well as other options too version 3.1 is the current build but is Windows 7 and above only. Version 3.0.4 is the last version to support Windows XP and Vista too.

https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdstyler/files/dvdstyler/

It does not try to do DVD ripping or Audio CD burning... Only DVD's I've owned for the past 7 or 8 years have been ones I've authored so I don't need any DVD ripping facilities... far better to get a properly designed DVD Ripper tool in my opinion than try to find some multi-purpose bodged together tools that none of the individual tools excel at what they do.

kevine,

Yes.

linusblanketeer, have a look at DVDStyler https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/
If you like this giveaway, you'll love that!
It shows how Open Source software can be way better than these little closed source developers can muster.

david, So you can't answer the question then? What the description says is ambiguous and factually incorrect.

The quoted statement states ""Amazing DVD Creator supports all disc types " then "including" which implies it is not just the listed types but others too, which is emphasised by the "etc" on the end. But the program only support the authoring of DVD-9 and DVD-4.7. It does not support DVD-1.4 as in it cannot give you any useful guide as to how much space there is remaining on a DVD-1.4 disc. So yes I can read, quite well, but they can't write non-conflicting claims. Hence my question asked before I decided to try it out for myself since no one had an answer...

Can you read?

Have you tried the giveaway out?

If you have do you have any opinion on it?

david, I can read just fine and I did not see DVD-1.4 8cm DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW either

Mike, the homepage only lists lifetime licenses for purchase, so i'm assuming todays offer is also lifetime. The program doesn't need a internet connection to activate nor does it connect to the internet to check the license.

senzai6293, and that means what about the giveaway license? Diddly squat!

Kulaspiro Mingao, I have shelves full of DVDs collecting dust and a nice DVD player doing the same. I haven't used either of them in years, sort of like the shelf of floppy discs that I finally threw out. I am surprised anyone would pay a dime for a DVD burning program when there are so many free ones available.

Kulaspiro Mingao,Burning movies to DVD is less and less happening. When HD movies are downloaded from the internet, the quality will certainly be much better than that of DVD with a picture format of 720x576. Ripping a DVD also has that image format.

Kulaspiro Mingao, you can still by DVD-Video and Bluray coppies of most major film releases. It may be easier to pirate them via file sharing but millions do still buy them!

"Are DVD videos (SD quality rather than HD) still widely used?"

Today Best Buy's list for movies released this week shows 49 Blu-ray vs. 81 DVD. To maybe help explain that, DVDs are easier & cheaper to produce, and there are more ways to play DVDs than Blu-ray, most all of them cheaper. Yes, a DVD you buy today will look *IMHO* marginal on the 1080p TVs that make up the majority of TVs sold, though not as bad on the cheaper 720p sets, but to a huge number of people that does not matter. Before digital HD, when everyone used analog TVs, the majority of households in the US had the color settings misadjusted, often by quite a bit, and it bothered no one.

" I am surprised anyone would pay a dime for a DVD burning program when there are so many free ones available."

AFAIK there's one open source app, DVDAuthor, for Linux, & every free DVD authoring app [& Very many paid ones] uses that, adding their own GUI, conversions [usually via ffmpeg], templates etc.

dvdauthor.sourceforge[.]net/

" It may be easier to pirate them via file sharing but millions do still buy them!"

FWIW... Streaming may be the most convenient -- buy a movie & it's often available via several streaming services on all sorts of devices [there are even Windows apps] -- but it's often the most expensive, with movies costing more than most DVDs & many Blu-rays, at least initially when 1st released. But streaming requires a good internet connection with plenty of bandwidth, which loads of people, including in the US, do not have. Blu-ray is highest quality, because you can't squeeze the usually around 40 GB through the pipes for streaming, & it makes for a Long download, even on broadband, *If/when* you find it e.g. via torrent. Downloading a DVD is bad in that respect at often 6-7 GB in original format. You can convert it of course, making downloads quicker & requiring less storage space, but to combat that Hollywood makes sure retail DVDs are marginal quality that look IMHO just nasty after conversion. So for many I imagine a DVD on sale is an ideal compromise.

mike, DVDAuthor and FFMPEG are what this (ab)uses to do all the processing.

Arthur ASCII, it's Free DVD Creator. You have to activate the license to access a more advanced version called Amazing DVD Creator offered here.

Arthur ASCII, I think you'll find it matches the term "freemium" i.e. it's feature limited free but you can buy a premium license that removes those restrictions or if you look at it a differnt way, adds premium features not present in the free license edition.

Arthur ASCII,
Just had to say, love that username. It made to laugh (I would never say "lol"). One for all us oldies here, in more ways than one.

Michael, I have no idea what you're trying to communicate.
The combination of words make absolutely no sense.
Can you try again please?

Sentinel, Check out their Home page / products - lots of programs for the PC!

Peter, so a "shill" advert written by someone with no comprehension of the English language?

rww, from their own description above:

"You can rip DVD to popular video formats like MP4, MOV, MKV and AVI. "

TK, you don't rip those formats. You rip discs.

Brian, did you get an error box when trying to rip the DVD to MP4 ? If you did would you be using WIndows XP or WIndows Vista ? If so that is a bug where they are using a version of FFMPEG to do the conversions that is not compatible with XP and Vista and requires WIndows 7 or Server 2008 R2 or better to run.

rww, there is no contradiction... it just does both operations ... try downloading it and you'll see the "DVD to Video" as well a CD burner. These extra functions are in addition to the function described in the product name but do not contradict it as it does create DVD discs albeit very primitive Video-DVD with no menus or chapters or soundtrack or subtitles...

rww, if you run the program the second option on the left is dvd to mp4

Brian,



The video DVDs you buy normally have DRM, & while that DRM is much less intensive than what's used for Blu-rays, it is still evolving, with new schemes that not every decryptor can handle, at least initially. Amazing DVD Creator may not include a decryptor, so you can only convert DVDs without DRM, or it may just not be able to handle your DVD. You can find alternatives here, though note that some listed have been out of development for years. videohelp[.]com/software/sections/decrypters-dvd-rippers

Duane, PLEASE READ all the words... rip DVD to popular video formats like ...

I do not mind being corrected at all, in fact I appretiate it but please do ensure you read what I was quoting before making an error trying to correct what I quoted verbatum that this vendor wrote which although was not perfect syntax was entirely correct!

TK,
I select the folder on the DVD called Video_TS, then clock on DVD to Video button and an error box pops up and tells me that the selected ISO file or DVD folder is invalid.
I'm using Windows 8.1 and have tried it on two different DVD's.

mike,
I used an up-to-date decrypter to test Amazing DVD Creator.

Brian, bearing in mind I do not have an handy DVD-Video disc to test ripping on but I have created a test DVD folder set out of 4 videos using DVDStyler and I pressed load DVD folders and select the root of the DVD not the VIDEO_TS folder and the root folder name apears in the left column and the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders apear in the right "Files" column and select the left column root folder not the Files column and then press the DVD to Video button and the conversion takes place BUT the interface reaches 100% long before the conversion is completed probably because it gets confused or wrongly calculates the length of the videos that get concatenated. So that part can work, try selecting the left column DVD label so the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS are on the right Files panel unticked. Might work!

TK,
Thanks for your suggestion.
I tried that and it attempted to work but in about 1 or 2 seconds the program shuts down.

Duane, in some silly respect you are right "I" don't rip those formats, I never said I did or do! Neither did I say this program rips those formats, please try reading the comment again more carefully! I also do not rip DVD which for your information means Digital Versatile Discs so no need to add an extra "disc" after "DVD".