DVD question
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Hope someone can advise: Going on vacation (yahay!) at christmas and I've managed to persuade her indoors that vacations and laptops do go together! However, I've only got there because I've (somehow) convinced her that I'll let her use the laptop on the plane to watch her choice of films. (I will let her, I promise) So, the question: I want to be able to copy some films onto my laptop for the sole purpose of viewing them whilst on the flight. Can you suggest the best piece of (free) software to do this purely so we can watch the films? (They'll get wiped off when we get home). I've looked at DVD Rip 'n Burn but think there must be something more reliable. Thanks.
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Hope someone can advise: Going on vacation (yahay!) at christmas and I've managed to persuade her indoors that vacations and laptops do go together! However, I've only got there because I've (somehow) convinced her that I'll let her use the laptop on the plane to watch her choice of films. (I will let her, I promise) So, the question: I want to be able to copy some films onto my laptop for the sole purpose of viewing them whilst on the flight. Can you suggest the best piece of (free) software to do this purely so we can watch the films? (They'll get wiped off when we get home). I've looked at DVD Rip 'n Burn but think there must be something more reliable. Thanks.
I don't condone piracy (that was a disclaimer, btw), but I wanted to get a film onto my GP32, and in the process I found a couple nice tools for just that purpose. Annoyingly I'm at work so I don't want to risk searching the interweb for tools that may be considered "iffy". However... There's a program called DVD Shrink which can be used to re-code a dvd to fit onto smaller media (not sure if it will just decode a dvd to mpg). I think it used to be at dvdshrink.org. There was a tool I used called "DVD Decryptor", which allows you to, ehm... decrypt a DVD into an plain .VOB. Then I'd use VirtualDub to recode it into something small and viewable. Have a look at VideoHelp[^] - there's a ton of information there that may be of use. There are other tools you can use - check VideoHelp above for a bunch of guides and how-to's. 'bod.
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Hope someone can advise: Going on vacation (yahay!) at christmas and I've managed to persuade her indoors that vacations and laptops do go together! However, I've only got there because I've (somehow) convinced her that I'll let her use the laptop on the plane to watch her choice of films. (I will let her, I promise) So, the question: I want to be able to copy some films onto my laptop for the sole purpose of viewing them whilst on the flight. Can you suggest the best piece of (free) software to do this purely so we can watch the films? (They'll get wiped off when we get home). I've looked at DVD Rip 'n Burn but think there must be something more reliable. Thanks.
If you have a real DVD software player - like Power DVD, all you need to do is copy the files of the DVD onto a folder, then tell Power DVD to play the encryped files. Works fine for that kind of situation. If you want to DVD Jon them and remove the encryption, so they can be played by a plain MPEG2 player, or as avi's, then thats something else.
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Hope someone can advise: Going on vacation (yahay!) at christmas and I've managed to persuade her indoors that vacations and laptops do go together! However, I've only got there because I've (somehow) convinced her that I'll let her use the laptop on the plane to watch her choice of films. (I will let her, I promise) So, the question: I want to be able to copy some films onto my laptop for the sole purpose of viewing them whilst on the flight. Can you suggest the best piece of (free) software to do this purely so we can watch the films? (They'll get wiped off when we get home). I've looked at DVD Rip 'n Burn but think there must be something more reliable. Thanks.
'DVD decryptor', i am sure i used that several years ago. It converts the DVD into the VOB files as already mentioned. You will get a few of as i think they have a 1gig limit. I used to use windvd's 'Play File' option and add the files to a playlist, then you can pretty much use the dvd as before. Just be aware that it wont compress them so for a typical DVD you will get 4 VOB files and it will take 4 gig on your laptop for 1 movie. Jonathan
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If you have a real DVD software player - like Power DVD, all you need to do is copy the files of the DVD onto a folder, then tell Power DVD to play the encryped files. Works fine for that kind of situation. If you want to DVD Jon them and remove the encryption, so they can be played by a plain MPEG2 player, or as avi's, then thats something else.
Doh! Why didn't I think of this? :-O Thanks: great idea and thanks for all of the other suggestions. :rose: ps Promise I'm taking them all off soon as I get home. Really.
turning the other cheek just gets you slapped twice
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Hope someone can advise: Going on vacation (yahay!) at christmas and I've managed to persuade her indoors that vacations and laptops do go together! However, I've only got there because I've (somehow) convinced her that I'll let her use the laptop on the plane to watch her choice of films. (I will let her, I promise) So, the question: I want to be able to copy some films onto my laptop for the sole purpose of viewing them whilst on the flight. Can you suggest the best piece of (free) software to do this purely so we can watch the films? (They'll get wiped off when we get home). I've looked at DVD Rip 'n Burn but think there must be something more reliable. Thanks.
I use a little application SmartRipper (its on the web) which isn't the friendliest piece of software, but it will basically transfer the contents of a DVD to hard-disc removing the encryption and region encoding as it goes. You can then play your DVD from disc in the normal way by opening up the first 'ifo' file. Once that's done I chuck the box out and put the DVD in one of those big wallets for backup (which goes into the garage). I find this frees up a huge amount of space. Regards, Rob Philpott.
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I use a little application SmartRipper (its on the web) which isn't the friendliest piece of software, but it will basically transfer the contents of a DVD to hard-disc removing the encryption and region encoding as it goes. You can then play your DVD from disc in the normal way by opening up the first 'ifo' file. Once that's done I chuck the box out and put the DVD in one of those big wallets for backup (which goes into the garage). I find this frees up a huge amount of space. Regards, Rob Philpott.