An app for DVD backup on PC?

Ice Rich · 12 Mar 2024 at 10:43

Hi all,

I've been out of the loop regarding this for ages. I have some DVD's that are starting to look a little tatty and I want to back them up on PC (not a disc to disc copy).
I have a DVD drive on my PC but is it a case of selecting all the files on the disc (there seems to be a lot too) and copying across? If I then want to playback this DVD from computer (the files) - which file do I then select to 'run' it.

Thank you

Ice Rich · 12 Mar 2024 at 11:02

Ahh yes, been awhile since I heard that term

. That could work. Then maybe something like VLC for the playback?

Ice Rich · 12 Mar 2024 at 12:13

Cheers McNumpty . I know

As i'm thinking back i'm getting flashbacks too and remembering things that were so familiar back in the day but it's been so long i've forgot things

It's just some old sitcoms that are now no longer easily available and would like to still watch but not load up the discs each time.

Ice Rich · 12 Mar 2024 at 12:25

Got it

Thank you, will give it a go and let you know

Ice Rich · 12 Mar 2024 at 16:05

Big thanks for all the help

I tried manually copying the files from disc to HDD but the DVD Protection kicked in any wouldn't allow, so installed DVDdecrypter and that copied it over nicely. Then used VLC to open the folder and the menu boots up instantly, then could use my mouse as a remote and select the chapters etc. Works great and i'm pleased

And yes thanks ALD , i've since been reading up and MakeMKV seems to be an improvement over DVDdecypter and might install that also but at the moment it's working great.
I now think I can broadcast this over to a CRT too for maximum nostalgia

Ice Rich · 13 Mar 2024 at 08:30

opethdisciple said:
In one of my old jobs about a decade ago now we was using something called "DD for windows".

Taking dvds and converting them in too .iso

You could then store them on your computer like any other file.

Do you then mount the .iso on a virtual drive (Deamon Tools comes to mind, another flashback)?

Ice Rich · 15 Mar 2024 at 08:35

ANONANON said:
Make mkv is what I used to use back in the day. You could really do with compressing it down though and I use wondershare video converter ultimate to compress it down from 4+gb down to a few 100mb using the hev.c/H265 codec.

Wow, that's an impressive decrease - do you still have 'instant' access when you want to play it back though or need to decompress first?

To be honest, I only have a few discs I need to backup for the time being (which i've now done thanks to this thread) and plenty of space. There are things I miss from back in the day (and doing this has been a nice nostalgia hit

) But the readily amiability of cheap and fast storage is something i'm definitely now grateful for.