Most DVDs are designed to prevent you from making copies. The first preventative measure is encryption. Commercial DVD titles are often encrypted, which prevents you from either copying them to your hard drive, or if you manage to do so, being able to play the resulting files.

There are three most common forms of DVD copy protection namely Macrovision, Content Scrambling System (CSS), and more recently Sony ARccOS. Most DVD burning software does not work on a copy protected DVD. For example; Nero users are forced to find a third party DVD ripper if they want to burn a copy protected DVD.

To remove the protection from the purchased movie DVD, DVDSmith Movie Backup will help you to remove protection and make clones of your DVD movies to the hard drive either completely with all extras or just the main movie only. The backup speed is super (only about 15 minutes for DVD-5 or 25 minutes for DVD-9). DVDSmith Movie Backup is a freeware.

If you need to burn a copy protected DVD to DVD disc, Any DVD Cloner is your best choice! With Any DVD Cloner, you can easily back up any movie DVD to DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW disc, make clones of your favorite DVD movies on DVD in just a few clicks. These working copies allow you to play your DVDs on home and computer DVD players every day without the inevitable risk of getting your originals scratched or damaged. You get disc protection with no loss of playback quality.



System Requirements
• Windows Vista/XP
• Pentium II 500 MHz or above
• 512 MB or above of RAM
• 10 GB of Free Hard Disk Space
• A DVD-R(W) or DVD+R(W) Drive

The operation of Any DVD Cloner is very simple. After only several steps, you can copy protected or unprotected DVDs to ISO file, hard disk or DVD discs.

1. Insert a DVD disc into the DVD drive
The logo of your DVD drive will be changed into a disc shape with disc name as below:

And in Any DVD Cloner, Input Device section will show the current DVD drive where the disc is loaded:

(Note: This disc named 0223 is for illustration only, since that the disc name will be loaded automatically according to your disc. And if you have virtual drive installed, and load a DVD ISO in it, the effect will be alike.)

2. Load Source DVD
Press the Open DVD button, then the file tree of this DVD will be loaded in the DVD explorer section:



3. Select clips to be cloned
In the DVD explorer, you are able to select the clips to be cloned. Below example skips some chapters and subtitles, and omit titleset 1 and 2:

You can also select any clip and press Preview Title button, or right click on the title and select Preview, to watch it in th preview window before cloning:


4. Choose output device
In the drop down list of Output Device, there are many options. They can make different kinds of clone from the source DVD:

ISO Image File: this option will create ISO image file on hard disk;
DVD Folder: this option will backup DVD to local hard disk as folder;
Source DVD drive*: in this illustration, F: drive is the source DVD drive; remember not to select this one;
Output DVD drive*: no other DVD burner, or many other DVD burners; this depends on your computer hardware configuration.

5. Start cloning
Different clone types come with different output device options:
1). If choose ISO Image File, Any DVD Cloner will ask you where to put the ISO file;
2). If choose DVD Folder, it will popup Browse For Folder window to let you set the output backup folder;
3). If choose another DVD burner, it will burn selected clips on another DVD.
After selecting clone type, click the red triangle Start Copy button on the right panel, then Any DVD Cloner will start cloning operation:


When below message prompts, your DVD is cloned successfully:

To convert the DVD disk or DVD folder to the other profiles which can be used on Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, Apple TV, Sony PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, Archos, iRiver PMP, Creative Zen Vision, MP4/MP3 Player, Mobile Phone, Pocket PC and PDA or other devices, you can use Any DVD Converter to rip the DVD disk or add the entire DVD folder to the program.

(1) Download Any DVD Converter Professional from this website and install it. Below is the interface of the program.


DVD and the video formats below can be converted by this program.



If you want to convert any video files or DVD movies for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, mp4 players and mobile phones on MAC OS X, Please download Any DVD Converter For Mac.

(2) Click “Add Video” buttons to browse the video clips from your local machine. You can also simply drag-and-drop the video files to the program. If you insert a DVD disc to your DVD driver, the contents of the DVD will be automatically added to the program.



If you want to download Youtube videos and convert them, you can click “youtube” button to add the youtube video URL. Or you can copy a Youtube video URL and right-click on the middle panel of the program to paste the link; or press keys Ctrl+V. Google video is also supported.



(3) Choose an output format. In the upper right of the program, you can find a profile list. Mp4 output for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune and mobile phone is available. Also MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, AVI, FLV, mobile phone 3GP output formats are available. If you want to extract audio from video files, just choose mp3 as output format. And FLV output format means that you can share any video on Youtube website. If you need to make a DVD disc from videos, choose DVD Video NTSC/PAL Movie as output, then use a free program named DVDstyler to burn them to a DVD disc.



(4) Usually, default settings are good enough and it’s recommended. However, you can customize settings completely as you like. Video codec, video size, video bit rate, video frame rate, audio codec, audio bit rate, all of these can be customized. You can even input a value as you like except the device only accepts a certain video size. You can also specify any part of the video you need to convert by specifying the start time and stop time. For DVD, you can specify the chapters, audio language, subtitle and angle as you like. If you want a silent movie, just simply set Disable Audio option to yes. Audio channel 1 and 2 are mono and stereo.



(5) Before conversion, if you want to preview movie, just select the movie you want to preview and click the play button. There is a little red mark that you can use to go backward or forward. Also you can use it to trim the movie with the first and second button. Double-click on the preview window, the window will magnify and double-click again, it will be back to normal state.



(6) There are also some more options for more detailed settings. Click “options” button, or click menu “edit --> options”, you can find five tabs.



General tab: Here you can set output folder or open the output folder, specify process priority. If you have a batch of movies that need to be converted, “shutdown computer when encoding finished” option is convenient.
Audio tab: Here you can set output audio volume, AAC parameters and mp3 parameters.
Video tab: Here you can set video preview driver, encode filters. And video resize option is available, you can set video to fit the width or the height, or expand to video size if there is black bar of output movie.
Online Video tab: Here you can login Youtube account.
DVD tab: If you don’t want to separate the DVD as titles, here is an option for you.

(7) If you want to convert some video clips and merge them into a file, please press the Ctrl or Shift button to choose the files you need to merge, then right-click on them and choose Merge Output. The first part of the output will be highlight, and the other files which will be merged will be displayed in gray and will be merged in order. If you want to change the orders of the files, please drag and drop the file in the list to change the order. If you want to cancel the merge operation, please choose the file and click Unmerge Output.





(8) Now, click “encode” button to start the converting. Source Files item shows videos added to the program. You can directly reach a certain output format by clicking the format in Converted list. And the downloaded Youtube or Google online videos are also easy to find. You can also directly click the “Output Folder” button to open the output folder where the converted files are located.