Ok, so a couple of weeks ago I 'cracked' & bought myself a dvd writer, without really being aware of how hard all this can be.

I'd only been copying 'ancient' dvd's (less than the 4.7gig 'limit') so I thought it was 'oh so easy' ... ha-ha-ha ! 'ed ... ain't you a dummy !

Ahh but a bit of diligent googling turned up some tools, to un-confuse me !

Currently I'm using DVDShrink (cos its free & simple) & nero 6 to burn & am about to give nero's recode a bash, however I'm getting pretty sick of whizzing around half a dozen folks houses to test my backups for compatibility (the whole idea was to share my dvd collection with my family without any hassle or danger of originals being 'lent' without further trace, why can't people respect others stuff ? I do, but that's a whole different issue .. ). The results with this are okayish, definately completely fine on any pc, but even though the movies work, jumping between segments keeps getting it stuck on the 'majority' of players I have access to, so less than perfect ...

Are these the only choices I have to deal correctly & simply with menu type dvds ? Every other 'backup' app only seems to do 'main movie'...

I want something so simple even I can use it ... & my sister & my uncle & my cousins, as they now all want backups of their collections, too, or am I asking too much ?