Thank you Mat, this will help a great deal. I wI thought it one would do
what you said regarding copying the dvd to a hard disc but wasn't sure.
Thanks for such detailed and helpful directions.
- Original Message -
From: Matthew Bullis matthewbul...@runbox.com
To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: moving dvd's to a hard drive question
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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