Without DVD_Room

[ffranciscojr]

HI!!!!!!
I would like to know if it's possible do make a copy of a DVD using my normal drive. I want to make a divx movie to put it on a sinlge cd.
My problem is that i don't have a DVD-Room.....It's possible to do that using my normal drive?
Thank You!

[benderman]

No, except...

I read about some dvd-rom-manufacturers that also produce cd-roms. For cheaper production their cd-roms have the same hardware as the dvd-roms except that the dvd-ability is disabled. There are some guides how to reenable the dvd-function. I don't know anything else about that, so you will have to find it out on your own.

[Enchanter]

As far as I'm concerned, DVD drives use laser heads with differing laser intensity (or frequency, perhaps) that can access the different depths in the DVD disc layers. Normal CD-ROM drives lack these and hence will NEVER be able to access DVD discs.

If what Benderman says about these "cut-down" version of DVD drives is true, it would be a good thing to find one and be able to defeat the mechanism that disables them from reading DVD discs. However, it may not be easy and it would probably be a better idea to get yourself a late-model (read: cheap) DVD drive.