How to make a back up ?? With dvd?

How do you make DVD's on your computer?

• I recently received a homemade DVD from a friend, (and no to all you dirty minds its not a sex or porn video of any kind), it is a movie, but a homemade one. I know if you put certain things on here your question will not post, so without spelling it out, it is NOT child porn or anything like that, but it is a DVD that you can buy in China Town or and any "underground" store. It makes you really HUNGRY like your playing GAMES while watching it. Anyways, I love this movie. I don't know who shot the movie, or what type of video camera that was used. Its on a typical DVD-R and it plays on computers and DVD players. The only problem is, its super wide screen. Cut the TV screen into three horizontal lines and the middle one is the movie. So I was wondering, since i don't know how to even make DVD's on my computer even though I know I can because I have windows media player, toshiba dvd player, and a Toshiba DVD maker. I tried uploading the DVD to my computer, but its two hours long and it divided it into 8 different folders. 3 of them were the actual movie, the other 5, well, I have no idea what they were. So what I'm asking is, 1)How do I upload the ENTIRE movie onto my computer so I can reburn a new disc, and is there a way to change it so the wide screen isn't so wide? I've seen wide screen DVD's, this is way too wide. There is twice as much black on top and bottom as there is color of the movie in the middle. I have a Toshiba Satellite M645-S4070 if that helps. Thank you!!

• Answer:

  First off, you need to rip the DVD to your hard drive using this: http://www.formatoz.com/ You don't need to worry about which file to rip. Let the program handle it. After ripping it to a single file, you may use any video editing program like any of these: Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 -- http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker VirtualDub -- http://www.virtualdub.org Avidemux -- http://avidemux.sourceforge.net Blender -- http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender Zwei-Stein -- http://www.thugsatbay.com/tab/?q=zweistein Wax -- http://www.debugmode.com/wax As for the widescreen issue, you may have to play around with it by cropping or doing some stretching to adjust it.