gastrof

My current setup only has a DVD reading drive on the computer. My burning drive is a USB external. I'm also having to store disc images on an external USB hard drive. This is slowing things down terribly, because the info in the image has to travel to the computer by USB, and then it has to go to the burning drive by USB. Using a disc to disc method does save considerable time. (The disc reading drive is onboard.) The attempt I made using disc to disc took much less time than the disc image method. (With the disc to disc "experiment", I have no idea what options I chose, and don't know what state the new disc is in. It seems to play all right, but...) I'll poke around and see what I can learn in the guides you mention. Thank you.

I've tried copying Dual Layer discs twice. One time I created a disc image, and that went fine. The image created a new disc without any problems. The first attempt (and the third), however, was done by having the original disc in one DVD drive, and the blank disc in another. I've done this with single layer DVDs before, and it's worked fine. This time, however, a window I've never seen before opened, and it offered three choices. One choice was to "Ignore Layer Break Options". The other two, under "options" (as in "layer break options"?) were "Seamless" and "Don't update IFO/BUP files". I'm not really sure what to do. I'd assumed the layer breaks would be the same on the copy as on the original, so why isn't it happening automatically like it did when I used a disc image? I have no idea what'd happen if I told it to ignore the options, and also have no idea what updating the IFO/BUP files means, since I wouldn't be looking to make any changes. (I also have no idea what "Seamless" means in this context.) Can someone tell me what settings/choices to make in setting up a direct disc-to-disc copy of a DL disc to a blank DL disc? Thanks.