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copying dvds to hard drives???

Discussion in 'DVDR' started by nik18358, Jul 21, 2010.

  1. nik18358

    nik18358 Member

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    hi, im very new to burning DVDs and usually use DVD shrink 3.2 and Nero but i now want to just copy all my DVDs onto a HDD so i can just play them from there using a media player rather than burning everything to disk. do people recommend this? what is the best way to do it? and how can i do this for encrypted DVDs?

    would very much appreciate any input on this
    hope my question is understandable
    thanx
     
  2. mistycat

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    DVDFabHDDecrypter (free or paid) or AnyDVD by Slysoft. I believe the trial of DVDFab becomes the free version, will do movie only too: http://www.dvdfab.com/en/hd-decrypter.htm My only recommendation would be a large HDD.
     
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    Do you want the entire DVD (with all of the extras) on the hard drive, or just the movie? If you only want the movie, after decrypting the DVD I would use Handbrake to convert it to a .mp4 or .mkv video file. That way you can save alot of space on your hard drive. I have gotten very good results doing this. The quality of the video you get when you use the H./X.264 codex is just amazing. For example, I encoded the new Star Trek DVD to a 775 mb .mp4 file and my eyes can't tell the difference from the original DVD.


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