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    Saving Sony preinstalled movies to DVD

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by markeyp, Mar 27, 2006.

  1. markeyp

    markeyp Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I just got the Vaio FE590P with the 120Gb hard drive that came with 5 preinstalled movies. I'm trying to figure out how to save them onto to DVD so I can erase them from my hard drive. They are all windows media player files that are protected with licenses but it comes with the unlock codes. HOw can I back them up. I tried copying them to DVD just as mp3 files, but when I try to play them it asks for the license again.
    Any ideas?

    Thanks, Markeyp
     
    markeyp, Mar 27, 2006
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  2. Amber

    Amber Notebook Prophet NBR Reviewer

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    You'll probably have to use Nero or some other dvd burning software. There is some free DVD burning software, but i don't know any off hand.

    I'm going to move this to sony because I think you'll probably get better advice there since I'm sure many users have tried to burn the preinstalled movies.

    SG
     
    Amber, Mar 27, 2006
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  3. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    CDBurnerXP and DeepBurner are a couple free burning software which will allow you to burn a data DVD with the clips on them.
     
    ZaZ, Mar 28, 2006
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  4. ShocWave

    ShocWave Newbie

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    The movies are DRM encrypted, i don't think you'll be able to burn them as data files.
    DRM prevents you from burning it as-is, because the licence is installed on your computer only.

    Some DRM protected files like music and movies allow you to import it to nero and convert to CD-Music or DVD-Movie.

    You might want to try Nero Recode or Nero Vision to re-encode it.
    VCD mode in Nero Express "might" work, but I highly doubt it.
     
    ShocWave, Mar 28, 2006
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