Hello This is my very first post on this forum so if I'm posting in the wrong area then I'd appreciate it if somebody could point me in the right direction. Over the years I have built up a large collection of DVD's that are now taking up a lot of space around the living room and seeing as Hard Drives are getting bigger and cheaper I was hoping to store them all onto a huge drive. The only problem is that I'm confused by the whole process and how best to go about doing this. Each DVD contains an AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folder. Inside the VIDEO_TS file are a load of BUP, VOB and IFO files which if I'm truthful I don't really know what to do with them. All I know is that when I shove a DVD into my Player I can watch them but if I drag and drop them onto my hard drive I can't watch them. Could somebody please recommend a method of converting these 4.3gb disks into my drive? I am hoping to build up a big library which I can store on my PC as well as shoving them all onto a stand alone USB Media Player and a take things from there. Cheers
These sound like burned (backup) DVD disks. You can create a new folder anywhere on the hard drive, give it an appropriate name, then drag the VIDEO_TS folder off the disk into the new folder. If you have 'VLC' media player installed on the PC, you can drop the VIDEO_TS folder onto a convenient shortcut to VLC and the movie will start playing - from the menu if the movie has one. The mouse replaces the remote.
Hello I forgot to mention that I'm using Vista and not a Linux distro at the moment. The plan is to convert toe VOB's to MPEG2, MPEG4 or Xvid but I don't really know which is best or how to go about achieving all this. It all seemed so simple at first but now my brain hurts with all the possible variations. The DVD's are indeed unencrypted movies which I created with DVDfab and DVD Shrink. All I want to do now is transfer those movies onto my hard drive and possibly in the future onto some portable viewing device. I just don't know how to get the VIDEO_TS files to work so I'm hoping for something really simple like an AVI file which I simply double click onto. Or is this not possible? Cheers
When you rip the DVD back onto your Hard Drive to convert them to AVI/mpeg 4, I would use DVD Shrink and set it to create one single VOB file(not required, but easier to use with certain applications). Then you can use many free applications to convert, like AlltoAVI, Staxrip, Avidemux, AutoGK, FairUse Wizard(you need to rip as an ISO), Nero(not free, but many people have it as many hardware come with it)...
