I have some tech videos I made some time ago that I would find more convenient keeping on a hard drive than on the original DVDs. Normal traditional resolution - not high def or anything. How should I transfer these to hard disk - what format and using what software? Will they be as large on disk as the original files? - I'm rather hoping to save a bit of space. And what software would I then use to play them? Apologies if (as I suspect) this topic has already been addressed, but I can't find it anywhere.
I don't see how you didn't find a topic related to this because this site is loaded with these but all you have to do is use DVDFab HD Decrypter to rip the DVD to hard disk. The files on the hard drive will be the same as they were on the DVD. You can however convert them to avi(using AutoGK) if you want to save space but you will not retain the exact same quality. To play the DVD files from your hard drive you can use VLC media player(http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) by going to File->Open Directory and finding the VIDEO_TS folder that DVDFab ripped.
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