Unless you happen to have access to a full blown – some would say bloated – DVD burning suite like Nero Burning Rom you likely do not have access to a DVD cover creator for your self created DVDs. While it is not always necessary to create custom covers, for instance by alternatively writing directly [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

We did not have lots of giveaways ever since the last Ghacks Christmas Giveaway ended with satisfied software companies and many happy winners of commercial software licenses. This changes today with a great giveaway. We were able to get unlimited licenses for the DVD disc backup and ripper BDLot DVD Clone Ultimate. More about the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

One of the biggest problems with Windows, every version in fact is that there is a different installation DVD for each version.  Whether that’s Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate that’s nine different discs you need as each of these comes with a separate disc for the 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions of [...]

Categories: Advice

I thought I’d take a bit of a break from the desktops (we’ll come back to a new alternative desktop soon) and help the users out with getting both Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 13 working with some of the popular media types. This is a crucial chapter in a users life with Linux as we [...]

Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

The next monster disc is just around the corner but possibly bad news for PC users who have upgraded their machine with a blu-ray writer.  The Blu-ray Disc Association have now published the final specifications for the new BDXL standard. The new discs will come as either triple-layer 100Gb re-writable, write-once or whopping 128Gb quad-layer [...]

Categories: Hardware

DVD regions are an annoyance from an end user’s standpoint as they make it impossible to view movies from different regions regularly. A limit of five region code changes is usually permitted after which it becomes impossible to switch to another region which ultimately means that DVDs and Blu-Rays from those other regions cannot be [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Many video DVDs and Blu-Ray discs use protections to prevent the reproduction of the movies. This often prevents creating a copy of a movie even if it has been purchased legally. Users often face two different protections. The first is a copy protection that has been added to the disc to prevent that its contents [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

We reviewed the free version of WinX DVD Ripper exactly a month ago and were very pleased with the DVD ripper and converter. The DVD software was easy to use but offered enough functionality to please most users. It was for example possible to rip a DVD with just a few clicks. Users who wanted [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A DVD ripper can come in handy in quite a few situations. One that immediately springs to mind is to enable the transfer of a DVD video to another device that is not supporting playback from DVDs. Another reason might be to put a lot of movies on a media PC or gaming system to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows