I've just purchased a couple of fairly expensive DVD's (one on Yoga 
techniques and the other on swimming techniques), both of which will be 
heavily used with a lot of stops, pauses, rewinds, etc. 
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What I would like to do is to copy each one to my hard disk, and have an 
image stored there, then make a working copy on a DVD-R (my computer has 
a DVD-RW drive).   If and when the working copy begins to get scratchy 
or have problems, then I can discard it and make another working copy.  
I expect each of the DVD's to be used a lot.
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Problem is, I've never done this before and don't know what software to 
use.  Anyone have any suggestions?  It can be done under either Windows 
XP or Linux.  The system (Dell system) came with a program that will 
play a DVD (PowerDVD) but I don't think that it will burn one.  I've 
googled and there are apparently a lot of commercial packages available, 
but  there is no substitute for some advice from someone who has some 
hands-on experience.
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And for the cynical among you -- no, I have no desire whatsoever to make 
copies of movies.  We subscribe to NetFlix and that takes good care of 
all movie-watching needs.  :-)
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John
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