• Authoring  DVD Author Plus allows Fast Video DVD Authoring, Backups of your Data, and Create ISO Images. Just drag-and-drop your videos on the storyboard panel and burn the disc! DVD Author Plus writes DVD Video discs that are compatible with most standard DVD player and also play on any Windows PC. Once the finished disc is inserted into a player, the video starts instantly, without the need to click through a DVD menu. Write regular data CD and DVD discs. It includes an intuitive, explorer-style interface to select data files, music and videos for burning. You can even create instant copies of existing CDs and DVDs with a single drive, with just a few clicks. Preserve your existing discs by creating ISO image files of any DVD or CD. It's the perfect way to back up your CD and DVD library to your PC. You can always replace a lost or damaged disc by burning the image file back to a blank CD or DVD disc. DVD Author Plus also shows you which disc types are supported by your drive (RW, +R/-R, Dual Layer, etc.). Size: 15MB. Win XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8.
• Burner  ImGBurn Burn an ISO image to a CD. Excellent CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.  (Portable how to)
• ★Burner  BDlot DVD ISO Master backups any DVD to ISO on the market. It can save regular and encrypted DVD to ISO without support from a third party DVD decrypting software, as it has the ability to remove both DVD region codes and other DVD protections like CSS, CPRM, CPPM, APS, UOPs, ARccOS, Rip-Guard, and Disney X protection. It can also burn ISO to CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc in a super-efficient way thanks to embedded cutting-edge burning technology. Size: 9.8MB. Win XP/2000/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.
• Burner  Free Any Burn is a light weight but professional CD / DVD / Blu-ray burning software. It provides complete solution for burning. Burn image file to disc. Burn files and folders to disc. Burn Audio CD from mp3, flac, ape, wma, wav files. Erase rewritable disc. Create image file from disc. Copy disc. Create image file from files and folders. Convert image files. View drive and disc information. Setup file can be extracted with 7-Zip to run as portable. Size: 3.2MB. Win XP/Vista/7/8/8.
• Burner  DVDFab HD Decrypter Copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections. Win ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• Burner  DVDStyler is a free DVD authoring tool, supports PAL and NTSC. Very easy to use, just drag and drop an mpeg file and make your video DVD. You can also make decent menus with it, even with audio. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• ★Burner  CDBurnerXP will burn CD-R CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW, Double layer DVD, Blu Ray, HD-DVD, Rip Audio-CDs to hard drive, create ISO-files, create functional slip-streamed Windows XP installation CD, customizable boot disc options, cover printing. Download the version without Open Candy. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• Burner  InfraRecorder is CD/DVD burning solution that supports recording to dual-layer DVDs with many features. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• Burner  DVDSmith Movie Backup will easily back up any non-protected and copy-protected movie DVD to DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW disc. Make clones of your favorite DVD movies on DVD in just a few clicks. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• Burner  DeVeDe will create video DVDs and CDs (VCD, SVCD or CVD), suitable for DVD players, from any number of video files. Many different video formats are supported (mpeg, mpeg4, avi, asf, YouTube and Google flash videos, wmv, ogg, etc...). The DVD authoring tool is a suitable program both for inexperienced and tech savvy users. Inexperienced users can create video DVDs with just a few clicks. Experienced users will like all the advanced options that the program offers. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.
• Compression  DVDShrink has great compression capabilities and makes excellent quality DVD copies. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP
• ContactSheet  Xorax Contact Sheet generates a contact sheet (index file) from selected photos. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP.
• Cover Printer  DVD Slim is a simple, easy to use tool to create covers for CDs, DVDs, VHS, PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP, Xbox, Nintendo Wii, BlueRay and much more. This cover program provides the following options: Use own pictures from your hard disk; Searching for cover images on the internet; Selection of the desired cover type; Adapting the cover format; Naming a title (on the front and on the edge of the cover); Print the cover of your project. Portable. Size: 4.98MB. Win 9x/2000/XP/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.
• Cover Printer  UnderCoverXP easily prints CD and DVD front covers, back covers, front plus inside, inlays, and more. Portable. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• DVD Recovery  UnstoppableCopier recovers files from disks with physical damage. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• DVD Recovery  CD Recovery Toolbox is a CD Recovery Toolbox which can scan any CD and DVD disks and finds files and folders located there. Not all of the files and folders can always be found - that depends on the degree and location of the damage. Therefore, the CD Recovery Toolbox Free tool finds the possible maximum amount of information. After that, it shows a list of all files and folders available for recovery. Now the user can select the files and folders to be recovered. Those specific objects will be recovered while the others will be ignored. The program recovers the maximum amount of information in the damaged file. Win 98/ME/2000/NT/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• DVD Tray Eject  Door Control runs in the tray and lets you open and close your DVD drive with one click. (Most Laptops do not have door retraction capability, though this app will open the door.) May be extracted with UniversalExtractor or 7-Zip. Portable (extracted). Size: 460KB. Win XP/Vista/7/8/8.
• ISO  Folder2Iso can create an iso from any kind of folder with the subfolders. So DVD decrypter, Folder2Iso, and ImgBurn combine a total freeware burning kit. Daemon Tools will mount the ISO from your hard drive. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• ISO USB Image  USB Image Tool can create images of USB flash drives and MP3 players, that are mounted as USB drives. It allows you switch between images with different music styles on your MP3 Player or to make an exact backup image of your USB Stick. Shows USB device information, has a command line utility, works with any device, that implements the USB Mass Storage protocol. This includes flash drives, card readers and a lot of other devices, like digicams, cell phones and mobile music players. Requires .NET 2.0 Win XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• ★Ripper  FairStars CD Ripper is a free powerful software for ripping audio CD tracks to WMA, MP3, OGG, VQF, FLAC, APE and WAV formats files on-the-fly. Free CDDB is supported(Querying and Submiting). It supports normalization when ripping, and also support ID3 tag. FairStars CD Ripper also supports playback with its built-in player. Rips CD to WMA, MP3, OGG, VQF, FLAC, APE and WAV on-the-fly. Supports automatic volume adjustment(normalization) during ripping. Supports multiple CD/DVD drivers. ID3 tag support. Support automatic saving ID3 Tags when converting, and also support ID3 tags display and edit. Query and submit CD disc information from/to the freedb(the Internet Compact Disc Database). Audio Playback control function Support. Size: 3.25MB. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8. 32/64bit.
• Ripper  WinX DVD Ripper is a free software program that facilitates ripping the content of a DVD to computer hard disk drive and converting to popular video formats. It supports all types of DVDs including normal DVDs, CSS protected DVDs, commercial DVDs, Sony ArccOS DVDs, all region 1-6 DVDs and most of popular video formats such as FLV, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, MPEG1/2 as output video formats. This may be the easiest and best yet solution to make backup copies of your DVD's. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• Ripper  DVD43 is a free DVD decrypter that runs in the background and decrypts DVDs on the fly. This website gives you some basic information, like what it does, how to use it, and where to download it. If your copy program needs a decrypter, you can use DVD43. It's free, so you won't need to waste money on a decrypter. It runs in the system tray as a yellow icon. When you insert a DVD, it detects it and turns red and firey while it disables the copy protections, then it turns green when finished. It does not remove the protections from the DVD, but allows you to now copy/rip those files. All you have to do next is run a program like DVDShrink and copy the files to your hard drive. (http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/CD-DVD-Rip-Other-Tools/DVD-Shrink.shtml) Then you can use ImgBurn to convert the files to an ISO and burn them to a DVD if you want a copy on disc. Win XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• Ripper  MeGUI is a video conversion application, which was primarily designed to be a DVD ripper, but is capable of many transcoding tasks. It is essentially a frontend for many free tools, but also includes a number of utilities to enhance the conversion process. This site has some great tutorials. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• Virtual CD/DVD  WinCDEmu allows mounting CD/DVD images by clicking at the image files in Windows Explorer. Win XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• Virtual CD/DVD  Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive. Supports all common image formats such as ISO, BIN, CCD. Supports up to 8 virtual drives at the same time. Easy to use, just double-click an image file to mount as a drive. Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP/XP64/VISTA/VISTA64.
• Virtual CD/DVD  Daemon Tools enables you to use your CD/DVD images (ISO) as if they were already burned to CD/DVD. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.
• Virtual CD/DVD  MagicISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file creating/editing/extracting tool. which makes a perfect copy of you DVD onto your hard drive and plays it as a virtual CD/DVD drive. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7/8.

For a complete burning tool-kit use DVDFab HD Decrypter to copy your DVD/CD. Use Folder2Iso to create an ISO image of the copy. Use ImgBurn to burn the ISO image to a blank DVD/CD. As a bonus, use Daemon Tools to mount (run) the ISO image right from your hard drive so you can play your games or movies right from the hard drive which runs faster.

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