Copying Video DVDs?

I have a few questions in regard to copying DVD's.
1. When I use Disk Utility to make a DVD disk image master, the resulting file has a .cdr extension. OS X DVD player will not play this file. Is there a program within OS X that will?
2. What about burning a duplicate DVD that that will play in a DVD player? If I simply burn a DVD master disk image onto a blank DVD via Disk Utility will this work, or do I need another program? In the PC world that I came from, we used Nero. What do we use here in Macville?
Thanks.

pianoman1976 wrote:
I have a few questions in regard to copying DVD's.
1. When I use Disk Utility to make a DVD disk image master, the resulting file has a .cdr extension. OS X DVD player will not play this file. Is there a program within OS X that will?
It should play it. You might have to right-click it and manually select the player.
However I never use the built-in DVD player. I use VLC which, IMO, is better and much more useful and versatile. It even plays the videos you can download from Youtube and also plays just about all other video and audio files. It's a true "Media" player.
(No I don't sell it ) but here's the link. It's a free DL
http://www.videolan.org/
2. What about burning a duplicate DVD that that will play in a DVD player? If I simply burn a DVD master disk image onto a blank DVD via Disk Utility will this work, or do I need another program? In the PC world that I came from, we used Nero. What do we use here in Macville?
You can burn the image to any DVD using the disk utility. I have done so and it works, but again, I prefer to use Toast. Toast 9 Platinum to be exact. This one is not free though.
The DVD/CD burning ability of disk utility is limited but it's OK for very basic burning and copying.

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