Re: moving dvd's to a hard drive question

[Matthew Bullis]

OK, this depends on what you actually want to do. If you just want to store 
the dvd data on the hard drive, in order to make exact copies of the dvds 
later, then you need only to create folders with meaningful names for each 
dvd, and copy the video_ts and other folders from the dvd itself into those 
meaningful folders. When you want to burn another copy of the same dvd, you 
can use the data stored within the folders to make dvds, rather than using 
the physical discs themselves. For instance, if your dvd is labeled 
production 1, then make a folder with that name on the hard drive, and copy 
the contents of the dvd just like you would any other file. When you 
actually prepare to burn the dvd, select the folders within the production 1 
folder, rather than the production 1 folder itself. The root of the dvd 
structure must be those video_ts and audio_ts folders. Now that's how you 
preserve dvds on a hard drive. However, if your object is to take the video 
content off of a dvd and make playable files for uploading to Youtube or for 
play in other formats, then you'll need a dvd ripper. There is a good 
program which grabs only the audio from dvds called DVD Audio Extractor, but 
for collecting the whole video source, you'd want something which will turn 
dvd segments into .avi files, such as a converter named that, or some of the 
tools within the Nero suite of cd burning tools. I hope that this info helps 
you out some.
Matthew 


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