Quoting Richard: Used Beta AnyDVD 7.6.8.2 with most recent CloneDVD. Copied just fine, using windows 8.1. Did not work with non-beta version of AnyDVD though.
Richard, you didn't try them in anydvd vers. 7.6.9.1 then.., just checking to see if you tried? I was so messed up trying these experiments, I'm not sure whether I got my eventual success on Love the Coopers using the ripit4me back door freeware method for non start-equipped disks, or by simply using the right click Anydvd rip to hard drive tactic. I'm inclined to think it was the ripit4me that worked. I use both Apple and PC machines as universally as I can manage. I have the outside disk people at WD show me over the phone an ambi-format that allows me to move major file endings back and forth between both PC and Apple systems without having to convert. This allows me to take traditional vob files generated on the apple machine to a PC, the only format DVD Shrink works in, and transform those DVDs into an ISO on the PC, that can quickly be turned into a copy of the original VOB filed US or Pal DVD. I use imgburn to do this, but note that Imgburn's OWN popup menu will find NO FILES ON A THUMB DRIVE WHOSE VIDEO FILE CONTENT HAS COME FROM AN APPLE MACHINE! So what's the workaround? Simply go to file manager, or right click to open Recycle Bin where you will find the file manager in newer windows 7 and later iterations, hidden.., go to file manager, minimize its size and DRAG the clearly showing video files of any sort brought over from the apple into the left portion of your PC's DVD Shrink freeware, where they will instantly be transformed into a file analysis with the scenes themselves showing in the enabled video inset, while the chaff that may have assembled there produces popups saying some of those are invalid, which you just get rid of, until all the genuine files are consumed in the video analysis by DVD Shrink, resulting in the completion of the first DVD Shrink Stage. After that you click full disk or re-author, the second stage which asks you to either make an exact copy of the DVD, or to click on the 're-author' stage of DVD Shrink and just opt to take the movie without previews or other DVD chaff, some of which you can organize, if you choose, to come AFTER the movie and not before. The first stage of dvd shrink is an analysis which produces the file components of the dvd copy, the second stage casts those components into the *.iso file that will produce a shrunk version of the original film that mostly looks exactly like the original when burned (imgburn freeware) to DVD. In Imgburn the top left menu of the six offered is the one used to burn traditional dvds.