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[Baza]

Hi All,

I have just bought an Acer Apire V5 Touch and want to copy my Wedding DVD to the hard drive so I can play it without having to take the disc with me.  I am told that this is possible without buying any new software, but I'll be damned if I can work out how to do it!

Can anyone help?

Cheers.

[Leho]

Baza

Generic method to copy a non-locked DVD (or CD).

Decide what directory (folder) on the hard drive that you want to save the file to. Presumably My Videos.

Load the DVD.

Click on the DVD drive from My Computer.

Highlight the file you want to copy.

Select copy from the side menu N.B. DO NOT SELECT MOVE

Select Browse and find your destination folder

Click on your destination folder

Click copy.

Et voila, it is done.

Leho

[rajith]

Insert the DVD to the optical drive,

explore the contents by double clicking on the DVD drive icon.

select the file you want to copy, press Ctrl key+ C.

go to the destination folder, press Ctrl key + V, to paste the file.

[Baza]

Great Thanls Guys, I'll give it a go this evening nd let you know how I get on.

Baza

[Baza]

Ok, I did all that and now have a folder in My Videos but when I open the folder, it doesn't play and I have 2 folders inside it which are called Audio TS and Video TS.

Can I get these to play?

[Leho]

Baza

What happens when you double (left) click on a video file?

Leho

[Baza]

it opens the core folder with the audio & video folders showing on screen.

[Leho]

Baza

OK, so from there open the video folder and double left click any video file.  It should open some default video software and play your video. Let us know what happens.

Leho

[Baza]

Hi Leho,

Sorry for the late reply.

tried thisand it asks me how I would like to open this type of file.

Still no joy!

Baza

[Alan-London]

Looking at your directory structure, your movie appears to be in a standard DVD format (VOB files etc).

You can easily view this with VideoLAN VLC. It is free and can be found here:

http://www.videolan.org/

Run it and navigate to your movie directory (the one containing Audio TS and Video TS) with Media > Open Folder...