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1CLICK DVD COPY PRO - User Guide and FAQ
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System Requirements:
Windows Vista, XP, 2000, Me or 98SE
500 MHz Intel® Pentium III process or equivalent with 256MB of RAM
Up to 9 GB available hard disc space for DVD images and temporary DVD files
DVD reader (DVD writer required for burning DVDs)
Frequently Asked Questions - 1CLICK DVD COPY PRO
- How can I preview my movie before I burn a DVD?
In the Options dialog, simply click on the "Destination" field and choose "Select folder from Hard Drive". The movie will be saved on your hard drive for previewing with a software DVD player. You can simply drag the "VIDEO_TS" folder into the software player's window to play the DVD. If you don't have a software player, you can try one out for free here: WinDVD.
You can then burn the movie by going back to the Options dialog and in the "Source" field choose "Select Hard Drive Folder" and selecting the folder with the movie. Don’t forget to set your "Destination" back to your DVD burner.
- What do I do if 1Click stops completely while reading a DVD and the 1Click application needs to close?
Make sure the DVD you are trying to copy is neither dirty nor scratched. Sometimes the small imperfections are not easy to see on the disk, but some DVD readers are not able to overcome the errors and send back error codes to the software. A thorough cleaning of the surface of the original DVD might do the trick. If you have both a DVD reader and writer, try using the other DVD device to read the DVD.
Lastly, try another DVD, maybe this one isn't going to read well with your DVD reader. Also, try to play the original DVD through your PC to see if it is damaged.
- Can I copy a DVD no matter which region code it has?
Every DVD movie is released with a region code which prevents a DVD player with a different region code from playing that DVD. A general rule of thumb is: if you can play the DVD, you can copy it. So if you want to copy a DVD, you'll have to make sure you can play it first. If you find yourself in a situation where you can't play the DVD because your DVD reader is set to a different region, you can purchase products on the internet that will remove region code protection from your DVD device.
- Why can't I fit more than a 4.37 GB movie on a 4.7 GB blank disc?
When you buy a single-layer blank disc, you may see 4.7 GB on it. This is actually a marketing strategy and in actual computing terms, it is not 4.7 GB that should be written. The correct number should be 4700000000 bytes.
Here is a comparison between marketing and computing definitions: Marketing: 1 KB is equivalent to 1000 bytes Computing: 1 KB is equivalent to 1024 Bytes
Marketing: 1 MB is equivalent to 1000 KB or 1000000 Bytes Computing: 1 MB is equivalent to 1024 KB or 1048576 Bytes
Marketing: 1 GB is equivalent to 1000 MB or 1000000000 Bytes Computing: 1 GB is equivalent to 1024 MB or 1073741824 Bytes
After all these definitions, you can see that marketing people will divide 4700000000 by 1000000000 to obtain 4.7 GB (which is not real)! The correct calculation should be 4700000000 divided by 1073741824 which amounts to 4.37 GB. This is the maximum amount of data that can fit on a single layer DVD.
- What can I do to speed up the copying process?
Make sure you do not have other applications running in the background that take up memory or slow down the computer. Another thing to check would be if you have DMA mode enabled on your DVD drives.
To verify DMA is enabled, go to the Windows Control Panel accessible from your start menu and then follow the path to System/Hardware/Device manager/ATA ATAPI IDE controller/Secondary IDE channel/Advanced settings and make sure that the transfer mode is set to "DMA if available".
If you have a DVD reader (DVD ROM), use it instead to read the DVD. Many DVD writers will only read at 2X speed when decrypting a DVD movie. This is about 8 times slower than the 16X speed available to most DVD readers.
The typical time to read a DVD-5 (a DVD with less than 4.7 GB of data on it) is about 10 minutes with a DMA enabled, 16X DVD ROM. Most DVDs are not DVD-5 and are dual layered DVDs which are typically DVD-9 (a DVD which can hold up to 9 GB of data) and these will take considerably longer since compression will be applied as it's being read from the disc. With a a P4 3.0 GHz machine, it should take about 45 minutes to copy an average 90 minute movie.
Remember one thing, if you find another product which is faster, it doesn't mean it's better. On the contrary, In most cases it means the quality is going to suffer. 1CLICK DVD COPY PRO uses a very sophisticated algorithm to ensure the highest quality possible.
If you find your copying times are greater than this, you may be using a DVD device which is physically slower at reading and the software cannot overcome this.
The time it takes to burn a DVD is fixed by the speed of the DVD writer and by the media. So, if you have a 4X DVD writer with 4X media, it will take about 15 minutes to burn the DVD. If you have a newer 8X writer, you can expect about half that time.
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