The Rockman Anime Music Video Station

If someone had two CD drives on their PC, could they record a DVD from one drive to a blank disc on the other drive? Then rip from there?

I need to get some clips for shows and such, and don't really know how to rip the video from the DVDs, especially since some won't let me.

I assume you meant if a person had two ~DVD~ drives in their PC.... if a PC has two CD drives, it couldn't read a DVD even if it wanted, because of the specification differences between DVDs and CDs.

OK, barring that nitpickiness. Could a person copy a DVD from one drive to another? The answer is yes, but not in the order that you gave. This kinda ties nicely into the . The basic premise: rip the DVD in its entirety as an ISO image, and burn the image onto a fresh DVD (assuming that the destination DVD drive can support the size of the image). DVD Decrypter can obviously do the job. ImgBurn (a similar project to DVD Decrypter, but doesn't circumvent CSS on DVDs, and thus isn't illegal) can also do the job, if you didn't need to do deCSS (ie, if the DVD was one you burned yourself, and you're making a copy for a friend).

You can also use DVD Shrink to copy the DVD image over to your computer and then burn it on a blank DVD disc. (Uses both DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter) In my case, I had recently purchased the Rockman EXE Movie DVD and I didn't want to scratch the original Disc so I made a back up.