The DVD-Replica utility is packaged in the .zip compressed file format. There is no installation step required for the tool to work. After downloading you should unpack the DVD-Replica.zip file with tools such as WinZip to a folder on your local hard drive. This package does not use the Windows registry so if you want to remove the package, simply delete the folder where you unpack the downloaded .zip file.

DVD-Replica does not work directly with encrypted video DVD. We do not provide this feature so that we would not have to deal with potential legal problems regarding the copyright and CSS infringement, and since there are already many excellent freeware tools on the Internet such as SmartRipper which can perform the copying of encrypted video DVDs to your hard drive with just a few clicks. If you need help getting SmartRipper to work, visit the following web page Guide to use SmartRipper.

Double click on the file DVD-Replica.exe to launch it. A window with four empty tabs appear: titles, vts, dvd, and auto. The contents of these tabs are filled, once there is an opened DVD folder. DVD-Replica supports the backup of video DVD by titles, by vts, or by groups of dvd titles. More explanations of these features are covered in the next sections.

Click open to select an input DVD folder. The input folder should be an unencrypted VIDEO_TS folder which is created previously by SmartRipper or equivalent ripping tools.

DVD-Replica v2.4 User's Guide