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rustico · #1 Post by **rustico** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:14 pm

Question. Is it possible to copy a dvd to my hard disk in order to play it back at a later date or do I need some special software installed to accomplish this task? I have plenty of memory and running at 72k. Thanks all.

MadeInJapan · #2 Post by **MadeInJapan** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:03 pm

You have to have software. I recommend a combination of AnyDVD and DVD2One. You have to have a way to "rip" the files by taking off the copy guard (called macrovision...accomplished by AnyDVD) as well as a way to "shrink" the files down so they don't weigh down your hard drive (we're talking about 4.5Gigs a disc if shrunk). This can be accomplished with DVD2One. A commercial DVD can easily approach 9Gigs of disc space if this isn't done.

By the way, AnyDVD also gets rid of the Region code. If you have a DVD burner, from the end result of the above process you can burn the files you get to a blank DVD and have a useable copy of the movie that plays in a set-top DVD player, though all the files have to be and a folder labeled VIDEO_TS

Good luck. Expect to pay for the above software, but we're not talking a huge amount.

d lehmann · #3 Post by **d lehmann** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:23 am

Here is a site that has all the video info you need.
videohelp.com
If I remember correctly there are free utilities there to rip and burn

#4 Post by **daeojkim** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:24 am

d lehmann wrote:Here is a site that has all the video info you need.
videohelp.com
If I remember correctly there are free utilities there to rip and burn

DVDshrink. It's free and it works flawless.

juancferrer · #5 Post by **juancferrer** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:53 am

If you just want to rip to HDD to watch later, just get DVD Decrypter. http://www.dvddecrypter.com/ It lets you rip the DVD as files, or it lets you make a disk image.

MadeInJapan · #6 Post by **MadeInJapan** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:19 pm

True...the DVDhelp site is good...also DVDecrytor. All or good that are mentioned...it's up to your preference.

Nolonemo · #7 Post by **Nolonemo** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:23 pm

If you're going to shrink the DVD's you might as well just burn them to DVDs, since the blank disks are not so cheap....

MadeInJapan · #8 Post by **MadeInJapan** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:35 pm

True, but there is no information to conclude from the posts above that the owner of the DVDrom and Thinkpad in question has a burner installed in his machine. I was offering "shrinking" as a means to limit the space that the DVD occupies on the HDD. This way actually several DVDs can be copied to HDD and viewed later without occupying an inordinate amount of space. Once viewed, I would assume the owner (or renter?) of the disc would erase the files.

Nolonemo · #9 Post by **Nolonemo** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:59 am

Right you are, MiJ, I keep thinking that everyone with a laptop also has tricked out desktop as their "main" machine.

MadeInJapan · #10 Post by **MadeInJapan** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:11 pm

Nolenemo,
I personally have a burner in both my thinkpad and my "tricked out" desktop

. Sometimes I get someone's DVD at work or elsewhere and make a quick copy (with process mentioned above) and view the DVD on a trip. In the past, when my Thinkpad's burner wasn't so fast (used to have a UJ-811B then a 815B, now I have a NEC ND-6500A), I'd occassionally, through the fast network at home, transfer the files over to my desktop and burn them onto DVD. Now, if a movie is worth keeping, I'll just burn to disk with my Thinkpad's burner (I always keep a few "spare" blank +R discs in my laptop case). BTW, I bit-set and burn as DVD-ROM. I like this format the best...both with my desktop and laptop as these discs will play in any machine.

rustico · #11 Post by **rustico** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:05 pm

All of your suggestions are greatly appreciated but maybe I didn't make myself clear in the first place as to the actual problem concerning the playing of dvd's. The reason I want to copy movies to my hard drive is because when I play it straight off my dvd drive it makes an unacceptable amount of noise due primarily to the spinning.
Thanks again for the help.

MadeInJapan · #12 Post by **MadeInJapan** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:27 pm

Then many of our suggestions should be helpful to you. Good luck! BTW, you should be able to pick up a different DVD drive to fit that is quieter for a nominal amount of $$ off of ebay or maybe listing in the For Sale/Want section in this forum.

pphilipko · #13 Post by **pphilipko** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:28 pm

rustico wrote:All of your suggestions are greatly appreciated but maybe I didn't make myself clear in the first place as to the actual problem concerning the playing of dvd's. The reason I want to copy movies to my hard drive is because when I play it straight off my dvd drive it makes an unacceptable amount of noise due primarily to the spinning.
Thanks again for the help.

Just use DVDshrink. Space saving and easy to use..

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