Copying a DVD

Baza
Baza Member Posts: 7 New User
in 2013 Archives

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.

Answers

  • Leho
    Leho Member Posts: 525 Mr. Fixit WiFi Icon

    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
    rajith Member Posts: 63

    Tinkerer

    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
    Baza Member Posts: 7 New User

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

     

    Baza

  • Baza
    Baza Member Posts: 7 New User

    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
    Leho Member Posts: 525 Mr. Fixit WiFi Icon

    Baza

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

    Leho

  • Baza
    Baza Member Posts: 7 New User

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

  • Leho
    Leho Member Posts: 525 Mr. Fixit WiFi Icon

    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
    Baza Member Posts: 7 New User

    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
    Alan-London ACE Posts: 793 Pioneer

    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...

     

  • Baza
    Baza Member Posts: 7 New User

    Hi,

     

    I tried this but my smartscreen would not open the file, sayinig it would harm my hard drive.

     

    Any thoughts?

  • Alan-London
    Alan-London ACE Posts: 793 Pioneer

    I have no idea what 'smartscreen' is but I suspect it's not very good!

     

    VideoLAN history:

     

    'The project started as a student project at the French École Centrale Paris in 1996.

    After a complete rewrite in 1998, it became Open Source, thanks to the agreement of the École Centrale Paris, in 2001.

    The project started to open up to developers outside of the École.

    It is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries.

    Since 2009, the project is completely separated from École Centrale Paris, and is backed up by an autonomous non-profit organization.'

     

    It has a long pedigree and is held in high regard. I doubt very much that a product that has been around for 15 years is likely to pose a threat. I have used this excellent player for many years and I have never had any anti-virus or malware alerts raised.

     

    Of course, it is your choice whether you choose to risk it or not.

     

  • Baza
    Baza Member Posts: 7 New User

    All sorted.

     

    Thank you very much.

     

    Barry

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