I like the style of the company.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME,MONEY OR EFFORT ON THIS ONE.

Software will not work as advertised and company will not respond to emails for help and that is unfortunate because I really wanted this to work. I belive your chances of getting hit by lightning are better than your chances of getting help from this company.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME,MONEY OR EFFORT ON THIS ONE.

RE: #75 "Keep in mind the folks crying poverty own PC’s and pay an internet provider each month for service. Somehow that just doesn’t fit portraying one’s self as poverty stricken and disenfranchised. Ladies and or gentlemen, the song you’re singing is “out of tune”."

My computer was given to me and my internet comes from nearby business that have free internet. So you know what? You don't know everything!!!

Just what I needed, so THANK YOU to all the staff.

I tried the program and it worked great, I copied 2 DVD's without a problem. I've read on above posts where people have had problems with it and some have not, those it didn't work on gave the software a bad report, but why does it work perfectly on other machines, may be they should look at their machines first?

I've been copying commercial DVDs for years and tried almost every DVD cloning software on the market. To do the cloning right, IMHO, the only solution is to use Slysoft AnyDVD to decrypt the DVD and use Elaborate Byte (Elby, for short) CloneDVD. You might find an all-in-one cloner works on some older titles, but the fact is that Hollywood changes their encryption methods all the time so that the latest titles will not work right. Slysoft is forever updating their software and was the first to offer blu-ray decryption. I don't know what the current asking price is but it is well worth it.

CloneDVD is about the best at copying. It offers so many options to get rid of crap you don't want and modifies the menus accordingly. Most of the time, I just have AnyDVD modify the output to jump straight to the menus and have CloneDVD remove the ads, trailers and audio tracks I don't want. Very rarely will the compression quality drop below 70% and the whole process takes about 35 to 45 minutes (I use 2 DVD writers).

As you can probably guess, I have no need for this giveaway, but I do sometimes see something worthwhile.

I missed out on the other two DVD programs so I'm glad to get this one.
Having a selection is nice even if you managed to snag the other programs.

Thanks GAOTD

Can anyone reply,

can this make a 1:1 copy of a movie?

I tried this software on two different Vista computers, a laptop and a desktop. The software seemed to rip okay but I never managed to get a workable DVD copy despite four attempts on each of two different copies. The copies not only failed to play in my DVD player but also failed on each of the computers. I also tried to copy two different movies, used multiple brands of media including a couple of high quality double layer DVD's. Nothing worked and the website support was no help at all. I will uninstall this software on both computers. Too bad, I thought it would be great for using backup copies but if you cannot get a copy that works what is the point. Definitely a thumbs down!

Thanks GOTD for sharing the software and all your hard work!!

#22 #18 what a pity that you can’t afford buying software !!!


Some people work their butts off and still can't afford everything they want while others are handed things down on a silver platter.

Some people have more bills to pay because of more family members, doctor bills, etc. or maybe just cause they do pay all their bills.

So why you wanna knock somebody down for getting something for free?
Your here aren't ya????

Re: #75 Renegade (folks crying poverty)

Have you ever considered someone else provided them with their PCs? There are groups out there that do just that not to mention relatives or friends.

Have you also considered they might be on dial-up which isn't near as costly as your fancy Cable or DSL?

For everyone else... please can someone post some pros & cons on this software. That's what helps us, the makers & GOTD.

Thanks!

Horrible! Absolute rubbish! Froze while running! I mean, froze the PC, not just itself!
Messed up my music player & Windows Live messenger when it froze up on me.
Uninstalled easily & thats the only good thing about it!

It seems that this doesn't recognize common DVD drives in laptops (this is a common LG multi-format laptop DVD drive). It says I don't have a DVD recorder, which I do. I might try using my USB external DVD recorder drive another time if the other programs don't work for me, but only as a last resort. That would be very inconvenient, indeed! And if that doesn't work, I will uninstall it and not recommend it to others.

Wow! That was quick! It got fixed in minutes. I downloaded and installed it on one PC and will do the same on another in a few minutes, then give it a try.

And the recommendation by someone about running DVDShrink in XP compatibility mode might fix the problem with it crashing in Vista. It used to work, then stopped working recently. Maybe it was after the Vista service pack was installed.

There's supposed to be more then 4 hours left for this to be activated but I get a message that the giveaway period is over and to check back here for new software.

Something is very wrong here and I hope it gets cleared up soon enough that I get to install this before I go to bed in a 1/2 hour or so. Otherwise, I'll be out of luck and won't get to try this one out.

@#70 GN
Once in a while, DVD Shrink might not be able to decrypt and/or rip a particular DVD. It will work with but not all CSS copyright. It does not bypass a lot of the copyright files such as the newer Sony ARCCOS and Macrovision. Do a Goolgle on it and read most of the forums on the subject on DVDShrink and you'll see.
Even this is from WIKIPEDIA.ORG:
"the program has options to facilitate the stripping of the CSS copy protection, removal of restrictions on user actions during certain portions of the disc (prohibiting skipping over previews or "FBI Warnings" and so on), and also allows the copy to be either made region-free, (the default setting) or set for any region code. "EXTRA SOFTWARE MAY BE REQUIRED" to remove more recent forms of copy protection such as Macrovision Ripguard."
Another fact about DVDShrink is that the last update was On August 17, 2005, the official DVD Shrink website was updated to say that the site "is no more!", prompting many sites to mirror the latest DVD Shrink version and offer it for download. This was a result of DVD Shrink's web host receiving a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take down notice, as compromising digital encryption is prohibited (only in United States, DMCA is not international law). Shortly after, the Web site was restored, and a Google search box was put in place of the download link. DVD Shrink is no longer available from the official web page, but it is available from many other sites on the Internet.
With no new updates it's not up to par with newer copyright license and using it alone you may be wasting your time. The reason it's best to use as a editor/compression software with a good ripper like DVDFab or DVD-Decrypter.

I love scrolling down the list and without reading clicking no or yes to was this useful. If it's in the - I click yes and if it's in the + I click no. What a exciting life it is to be a hobo at the library. BBurrrrp.

adenddum to @78. Downloaded Extra DVD Copy 4.6, which is today's gotd and I used intials for registration name and enter key provided. When installed you should on the upper right bar a message confirming registration if successful, Licensed to: Xxx Xxx

good luck

@70. You obviously don't use DVD shrink to compress copyrighted material.

Anyways, my feedback/experience, I first started using 3.2.1. studios until product pulled and revised, but still have. I also use Ripit4me, which will seamlessly bring up DVD Decrypter, followed by DVD Shrink 3.2. Set Ripit4me with either one click process or a couple to few click adjustments. next time one would click anythingis when DVD Shrink pops up, ie. compression info/analzye info/buring info which is tied in with the latest ner burning rom installed on my amd 1.6pc i have back up software download by gotd offers for problematic disc.

Note: been using Xilisoft gotd from approx 3 weeks to convert movies to mpeg4 for iphone 3g and it's as advertised with other formats which I have not used. I've downloaded Daniusoft and videoget from gotd and have yet to experiment. A couple of gotd's were buggy to include not being able to get the Aplus or whatever from a few days ago due to corrupted or invalid compression file.

Hope this helps some folks. Thanks toothers for valuable feedback vs mindless remarks.

I tried todays program on a dvd. It wanted to communicate with the developer after making a hard disc copy. I allowed this but when it went to burn a new disc it hung up and the error brought up the request to report to Microsoft. Naturally I said no. I then tried to copy using A plus ( which had worked successfully for me once) and it created a new disc that would only play the introduction. Coasters 2 myself 0. I then used my usual slower methods and made a successful copy. Conclusion, don't be in a rush if you don't want to use a lot of time trouble shooting ( unsuccessfully ) and use a slower methodical way. ( DVD Fab decode and Image Burn )

Vista SP1 all was okay

Re: #'s 18,39, 42 - Keep in mind the folks crying poverty own PC’s and pay an internet provider each month for service. Somehow that just doesn’t fit portraying one’s self as poverty stricken and disenfranchised. Ladies and or gentlemen, the song you’re singing is “out of tune”.

Pretty sad stuff. Both directed to users and the companies. Users: This stuff is free for us, and you get what you pay for.

Companies: Please, give the kind folks at GAOTD some software offers that aren't crap. It really helps the rest of us.

Re; comment #1 giving that "site" that gave good DVD software reviews.
That site is obviously a site to sell certain DVD software. I doubt its a good source for objective reviews of DVD software. Look elsewhere.

Can anyone help me out? The last 3 dvdcopy programs offered here will not launch on my system. The process runs in the background, but the application won't launch. I am running Vista Home Premium 32bit, Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe mobo, 4gb ddr2 RAM, GeForce 8800 GTS. This happens with other programs occasionally too. I have left the process run for 8hrs+ with no luck.

It's "GOTD"... not "GAOTD" ("Giveaway" is one word). Even the site's president confirms this when he uses "GOTD" in his post(s).

#58 = YOU DO NOT NEED A DECRYPTER, DVD SHRINK DOES IT ALL.I USED TO USE DVD DECRYPTER THEN DVD SHRINK , BUT ONLY USE SHRINK NOW.

I'm happy with GAOTD, but I would love to see other kinds of programs. I would love to see Starburn again (especially since I lost it before) or maybe a TV tuner program? I missed the one they gave out by a day and was annoyed.

But, thank you for all the giveaways, GAOTD.

It downloaded and installed fine on my Vista Home Premium. Of course I always install as administrator. Registration was a breeze and I used my own name. I have every DVD Copy program you have offered, because I keep thinking one will be faster & sharper. Well, this one really meets my expectations. The whole thing only took about 20 min. Of course I cut out all the extras, but I tried this same movie on the last two you offered and I do believe this was faster & sharper. I cut the extras out on those other two, also. Thanks GAOTD and the Extra Software Company for a really great product! I may just get rid of all the other ones.

This software was a fairly small download.After seeing the interface of the program and as some has mentioned above there are to many buttons that leads you to there website trying to get you to buy it.I wonder if this is the same in the purchased software because if it is very poor judgment of the developer.I have had several different Dvd copying software I still find the best is DvdFab hands down its not free but well worth the price.

Well - what can I say?? Can´t use the program. Keeps getting error-messages from winXP when I push the copy-button. AND - everytime I launch the program I have to register.
So - Not much to enjoy here!!!!!!!!!!

Duh! Why not go to Red Box and just pay a dollar to rent the dang movie. Stop breaking the law! Law breaker. This software is going to have you doing time 5 years and 500 grand for a fine. of course it's ok if it's a backup for your own personal use.

For all fellow Vista-owners - Windows DVD Makers does this - even save your project to burn extra copies at a later time! lol

"worst dvd copying software…ever."

Is that an official proclomation, perhaps emanating as an ex-cathedra annoucement? Naturally you have full documentation and extensive research to back up your statement.

sorry, make that "dammage."

"Great to make a coppy to loan to friends because often friends dammage or even lose them. Some never bother to return them"

...yes I have friends like that too. Not only do they damage, lose and deliberately not return things they take from me, they often commit violence against members of my household and even have burned my house down several times. But they are friends, so I can't really get mad.

I must admit that I am addicted to this sight also. I run in here first thing in the morning to see what the GOAD is going to be. I don't stay up past midnight waiting for it however. I have a lot of cool tools now too. I hope my This PC never crashes because it is my biggest and baddest PC in the house. My problem is I have no geek friends in real life that can help me figure out how to use some of the programs. But thanks to GOAD offering so many DVD/Copy/Burners ETC. I finally made my first DVD copy ever that worked with the APlus and I am still trying with this one. Perhaps it does not make copies from movies stored on your hard drive however it gives you the option to choose from it.
Thanks GOAD!

I agree with #55 -I've used DVD Shrink for a about a year on a computer with a AMD XPM2000, and it's very quick; the longest it ever took to do an entire movie is about 1/2 hour. Plus, as he mentions, you can control many parameters during the copy, which helps a lot.

This DVD Copy program may work as advertised for many users, but as the comments illustrate, caveat emptor - it won't work for everyone in every circumstance, since all computers are different enough that your own experience may vary from someone else's.

When someone has trouble with a DVD copy program, it may have to do with old burning software that was installed and is conflicting with a new program. Some of the older programs set up "universal" burning parameters that may make other software not work at all, or be very, very slow. Also, if your software has trouble recognizing your burner, it might be because there are traces left in the Registry of previous optical drives, that have been incompletely removed; in that case you can try a Registry cleaning program, unless you know how to manually clean all unnecessary entries out. Make sure you reboot after an install like this, before you try the program; it helps to make any new parameters and Registry entries "stick" better.

@#8 notusefulhere
BSOD can be caused by poorly written device drivers, faulty memory, a corrupt Registry, or incompatible DLLs. With the Bad Pool Caller message it could have anything to do from your memory not being able to handle this software to compatibility of the software along with your OS version. Google Bad Pool Caller and you’ll see what I mean.

@#10 Andrew
@# 22 Micheal
You seem to think that DVDShrink alone can make copies of commercial DVDs but you failed to mention that you need a decypter like DVDFab first to get pass the copyrighting before compressing with DVDShrink.
You also mentioned about the quality of today’s software is a load of crap when compressing. Even DVDShrink will have the same results if you don’t remove any of the DVD’s extras. The greater feature of DVDShrink is the ability of having the control to take those advertisement and extras out. You also have to take in account that though most commercial DVDs are on DVD-9 they don’t use all of the 8.4 GBs on the disc. I have copied some that have only 5-6 or 7 GBs of movie info (including the extras) so compression will very anyways. If you check the compression settings on your DVDShrink after each time it analyses the movie you will see how much compression it takes to fit all the info on a DVD-5. Today’s program does the same but automatically without the interface. The results are the same.
After trying today’s program and comparing it to the other 2 giving here the last couple of months along with DVDFab with DVDShrink using full disc backups the (without DTS included) quality difference between them isn’t noticeable at all.
The major quality difference sometimes is when it comes to the DVD blanks themselves. I use a cheap store brand Aldi’s Tevion that have given me better quality then the major name brands. Through trial and error, TDKs gave me a darker quality and Memorex gave me a pasty quality, while BASF gave both.

True that the best of all quality is to copy a DVD-9 movie to a DVD-9 blank, but if you’re on a real tight budget and can only afford the DVD-5s which are cheaper by the dozen, and if you don’t mind to leave the DVDs advertisements and extras in, then a program like today’s is a good keeper. It’s very easy to use. As far as when it comes to compression quality it’s more of a personnel preference. I’ve lent out a few of my copies and not one has ever told me the quality was bad. In fact they were amazed that the quality was just about the same if they had rented or bought the movie.

@#17
Sometimes burning DVDs and CDs can be affected just opening a browser while burning. Best to not do anything on the computer when burning.
Another thing that has happen to me when burning is the shape of the DVD that is being copied. I had a DVD that had a slight scratch would play fine but when I tried to make a copy I went through 3 blanks before I figured it was the scratch that interfered in copying it and caused a freeze frame on the copy. Finger prints on the original DVD will also interfere the same way.

Thanks GAOTD for a copier to try out.

Bugger. Another bomber. Not just another bomb but another DVD program that bombs, crashes, kaputs, as a large number of people above have also found.

As with Aplus the other day, with its brother Acala DVD Copy, and now Extra. All looking very similar. I'd say there's a DVD Engine out there that many groups are putting custom faces on - but the engine is unfinished and faulty.

GotD - you need to check the bona fides of these programmers and see how far the guts of these things have been developed. It seems to me that school's still in.

I'd like Extra to work but for far too many, it doesn't.

I registered and copied a dvd no problem and it worked well, or so I thought until I tried to copy a second dvd.
It asked me for the registration code again even though the program says its registered to me. Anyone else have this problem or a solution so I can use the program after today?

To #54
There is no real concisive answer to that. It all depends how much the software has to compress the original DVD and the specs of your computer. If there is very little compression, most programs are quick, like maybe 10 minutes. However, if it compresses it to 50% of it's original size, then it will take a lot longer.

DVD shrink tells you exactly how much compression it's using for each part of the disc, such as maybe 70% compression for the menus, and 30% for the movie, and 40% for the extras (if you do a full disk copy). The beauty with DVD Shrink is you can set the compression for EACH area of the disc separately to each other. This allows you to have a decent quality movie, but in the menus and stuff you rarely watch, like the extras, the quality is worse.

I've had DVD Shrink back up a movie only in as little as 5 minutes, and the computer I do it on is anything BUT a powerhouse, AMD XP2200.

My question is how long does it take to copy a DVD to your HDD with this program? Every other thing I've tried takes about 3-5 hours, for an hour and a half movie!

Downloaded, installed and registered as it should. However, my Vista Ultimate froze 4 times during a copy. I have now removed this application and say .... thanks but no thanks.

Installed well, copied movie perfectly and runs good on Vista Ultimate, another nice program. Many thanks GAOTD.

I find myself addicted to this site but for the wrong reason.
At first it was to see if there was software I could use now it is for the amusement factor I get in reading the comments here. Pretty sad isn't it. LOL

I do find something I can use often enough that it justifies coming here.Some real useful programs too. I did get a couple programs that manifested some malicious activity and commented on that.But in a calm manner I believe.

I find it amusing that so many people get so worked up here.
I for one have no use for a DVD copier. Why though should I bash it. Lots of others seem to like trying different ones. What the hell they are free. I don't think that GAOTD is here so that every software need that someone has on their computer be fulfilled. That this place is the means to all ends. Start out with a bare OS and come here and get every office need or multi media toy there is out there.

"Stepping down from my soapbox"

Guess it's a lot like tv. You don't like the channel ...CHANGE IT!

#45 and the others with registration problems, I put my own name in it
and then copied and pasted code and it worked fine. give it a try and see if works for you also.
By the way GAOTD thanks for sharing this with us.
Hal

The claim that some are having difficulty interpreting seems to be:
Extra DVD Copy can copy most DVD-5/DVD-9 type DVD movies to DVD-9 (Dual Layer) or DVD-5 disks with no quality loss.(end quote)
They could eliminate the silly issue by editing it to something such as : Extra DVD Copy can copy most DVD-5 or DVD-9 type DVD movies to the appropriately sized disks with no quality loss.
I can't otherwise evaluate this particular product which is the purpose of this forum, but I will say that despite the amount of what I consider empty, useless, waste of time comments such as: "I already have one of these", or "you recently gave away a similar program",or "not another" etc etc etc... I highly value the daily comment section especially the recommendations of alternatives/similars which are so commonly dissed as being the inappropriate comments of ungrateful people, but in my opinion are the most important to those learning and/or seeking the best programs and should be even more important to the producers themselves because in order to maximize success they need to intimately know their competition via feedback, to aim for improvement, which in addition to relatively cheap exposure is usually a main reason for giving free samples of commercial products.
Thank you GAOTD (and most evaluators), please keep up the excellent work and ignore the complainers that whine they don't often enough get what "THEY" happen want or those that give thumbs down to the good ones simply because they can't/don't/won't follow instructions. I missed the one 3 days ago and probably will never use this type of program ayways, but even so, I am just as grateful for today's offer as any of them... as I suspect most subscribers probably are. Rick

It simply doesn't done the job. Seems that it works fast and flawless, but the copied wideo cannot be reproduced in DVD player (i tried copy to HDD without menus and extras). There are all VOB files, but DVD player doesn't read any of them. If files are manually loaded there is only 24 min of video, without subtitles. It looks as a useless piece of crap, will be deinstalled ASAP.