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I have recently downloaded and installed v1.9.1 on both a mac and windows. I registered both with the free beta reg key, good through March 30th, and both said they were successfully registered, and I restarted both. I have tried to backup a DVD on both, and the Backup option remains grayed out. I have selected the dvd device with the disk, and the info was read and displayed. I did not open the disk. Here is a screen shot of what I'm seeing.

Can anyone help? I must be missing something, but I cannot figure it out.

I tried to insert an image but could not figure out how
I then tried attaching the image file, but the "board quota is reached", so just trust me
Both Drive and Disk info is Displayed
Type: DVD
Protection: CSS/CPPM

Neither Disk nor Files are opened.

Thanks,
Mark

Full disc "backup" is a BluRay only feature.

ha! thanks, I knew I was missing something.

To backup whole a DVD, do I just open the disk and save all the files? If I need to later restore it, would I then just select all files and burn back to DVD, (or does makeMKV do that)? I used makeMKV quite a bit, a couple years ago, but clearly don't remember it well. I thought it would generate an iso or mkv image. Maybe I'm confusing it with other software.

To make a "backup" that you can write to another DVD, MakeMKV isn't the tool you need. You can certainly save all the titles off the disk as MKV files, but the menus won't be saved, and you need DVD authoring software to construct the MKV files into a playable DVD.

There are a number of ISO creation programs out there that will decrypt a disk and save it as a playable ISO file, with menus and everything. The result can be written back to a DVD with sufficient space on it, and be playable on a DVD player.