DVD to USB transfer please

[leon]

Hi Guys I have some home made DVD's and want to transfer them to a USB, is this possible and how would I go about it please, thanks in advance.

Leon

[Leo.G (Leo)]

Originally Posted by TomsHardware[/quote

DVD copying software
In addition to a disc drive, you will need a program to rip the files off of your discs, and a program to transcode the files after the fact. There are tons of programs out there for ripping and transcoding files; we recommend MakeMKV for ripping and Handbrake for transcoding—both of these programs are free, open source software and available for both Mac and PC.

Generally you need software to copy the contents of the DVD to a file which can easily be saved. There are a lot of options but since I got older and forgetful (I did this stuff for years) I now just leave it to my son to do, it's so much easier and I'm lucky to have that option.


What format are the DVD's in, are they home movies or back up pictures, transfer will be dependent on file type.
Some files can just be dragged and dropped dependent on type of file but if it's a dedicated movie file not so easy.
If it's an MP4 format just drag the file across and it should be fine.


Another link with more information:


https://www.vidmore.com/copy-dvd/cop...b-flash-drive/

[sharkbite]

Hi Leon - not much has changed in this space in 3 years ;-)

https://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/...&highlight=dvd

I'd go dvdshrink if its home movies you want to rip...
the easiest to use imho.

cheers,

[leon]

Thank you guys, and Sharkbit you have an excellent memory i didn't remember that i had already asked this question, thanks for that.

Leon

[Leo.G (Leo)]

DVDShrink is good, thankfully I haven't had to use it for years but as mentioned, dependent on file type. If it's simple MP4 drag and drop, if it's an ISO I think you should be able to drag and drop that, if it's a commercial video format (as used on movie DVD's purchased) then DVDShrink is definitely the way to go. I haven't used it for a lot of years and couldn't remember how if I had to but there's plenty of information online.


Remember, Google is your advertiser...er...Friend.


sharkbite, I'm going to have flashbacks and nightmares after reading the information in the old thread. I did all of that stuff for years, now I don't do DVD I stream from my computer and life is so much easier (and I've long forgotten how to do it but remember it was never a quick process).
I had so many failures in the past but I was burning stuff on a regular basis.

[sharkbite]

Originally Posted by Leo.G

sharkbite, I'm going to have flashbacks and nightmares after reading the information in the old thread. I did all of that stuff for years, now I don't do DVD I stream from my computer and life is so much easier (and I've long forgotten how to do it but remember it was never a quick process).
I had so many failures in the past but I was burning stuff on a regular basis.

Yep - at one point I backed up all our bought ones using dvddecrypter - which could rip a full dvd in minutes using the GPU to process...after that one-off - streaming came along and obsoleted the purchase of dvds - a mighty PC sat idle until my astrophotography habit took hold.

Now any video is either streamed from a service or the home movies go straight to the NAS.

[dikman (Richard)]

Ahhh, brings back memories. Like some here I spent many hours, using all sorts of programmes, burning discs. My favourite was CloneDVD.

As said, Leon, it all depends on what type of files you want to transfer?

[leon]

OK, the files are just photo's put through a program called Pro Show Gold.

On our travels I used to do a lot of photography and then put these photo,s through the program added transitions and music and presto a DVD was created which I could play on the TV or Computer

So that is about it really nothing to complicated but now I have heaps of these DVDs which is fine but I just wanted to reduced space and put them on a USB and play them when ever.

Thank You

Leon

[Leo.G (Leo)]

Originally Posted by sharkbite

Yep - at one point I backed up all our bought ones using dvddecrypter - which could rip a full dvd in minutes using the GPU to process...after that one-off - streaming came along and obsoleted the purchase of dvds - a mighty PC sat idle until my astrophotography habit took hold.

Now any video is either streamed from a service or the home movies go straight to the NAS.

I remember (no I don't, my son told me, I don't remember what I had for breakfast and I eat the same cereal every day) that we had to mount the discs, run it through decryption software (back in 2007), then run it through another program like DVD FAB or DVD Ultra (or one of 100 other similar programs) to extract the movie and eventually burn it to disc. It wasn't a fast process, I never had the money for a fast GPU and one DVD/movie file could take hours.
Now just streaming from my computer is a brainless affair, even I can do it with the media player box (with Corelec software) hooked up to the system.

Leon, do you know what file format everything is stored on the DVD as?


I'll search online, find what the program does and see if I can give you exact instructions to make it simple for you.

I have a genuine Kodak photo kiosk here with 2 big Kodak printers and also the ability to burn DVD's and do exactly what you've been doing.
Actually, in saying that my son just suggested we take a series of images and burn them to disc using the Kodak kiosk process and see what we get, we've not bothered doing that in the past.

So far research has suggested the only way may be to do individual screen shots of the images you want and save them. From experience these will be poor resolution.
We're still burning a disc with Kodak software which came with the photo kiosk so until that's finished I have no idea of file formats or anything. It may burn as an ISO and if so that will require something like the suggested DVD Fab or others listed here.
Many of these programs used to be free from memory (or did I access a warez site and pirate it? I have no idea) but I'll look into free options available to you shortly. While free software isn't always the best it is when you consider what some of these people think their software is worth, huge money.


Some software has the option of storing the original file in a separate folder, not sure on what you've used but it could have done that had you selected the option. Then it should be as simple as opening that file and drag and drop the images to the flash drive.


Best option is open one of the discs on your computer and see what file formats have been used and if there is a separate back up file of the original pictures (which pro show apparently does give you that option when burning the disc from research my son has just done).