Help with video from DVD and file type to stream

[TonyM19]

Hi

About 15 years ago I spent weeks transferring family VHS tapes to DVD. We now find ourselves without a DVD player and no way to access them. I know the easiest way would be to just buy a cheap DVD player, but I'm looking for a solution where I could extract the video files from the (many) DVDs we have in a format that I could stream them to the TV (ideally from my phone). I use VLC to stream from my phone, but its been a bit hit and miss over the past few months, where some file types play with no issue, but others just give me audio with no video/video with no audio.

Can anybody recommend some software (preferably free or with a free trial so that I can see if it works first) and recommendations for a file type that is most likely to be cast from VLC (or a better alternative)

Thanks

 

[TonyM19]

Thank you for the responses. I'm going to try Handbrake first. Are there recommended settings that will make the files more likely to cast via vlc?

 

[TonyM19]

Thanks. I'll give it a shot this evening.

 

[TonyM19]

Outstanding! Handbrake worked with the recommended settings. Thank you.

The files are coming off in separate sections. Any recommendations for software to edit them into one continuous file?

 

[TonyM19]

Thank you. I'll try both methods this evening

 

[TonyM19]

Vobmerge and Handbrake did the job!

Thanks for all the help on this everybody