Importing a Home Video from a DVD into a Video File

[jaugustine]

Hi,

It wasn't long ago when I bought a Dell laptop with Windows 7 home
edition.

I would like to import/rip from a DVD, a home video into a video file
such as MPG, WMV, etc.

After inserting the DVD into the CD/DVD drive, I used "Windows Live
Movie Maker" and selected other device. In the list presented was the
DVD. I selected that and it appeared to be "ripping" the video, but
afterwards, when I tried to view the video file, it wasn't available!

I don't know if Microsoft's Media Player can rip a video from DVD.
I am not that familiar with this new version of WMP yet.

Any suggestions?

Thank You in advance, John

 

[Wolf K]

Hi,

It wasn't long ago when I bought a Dell laptop with Windows 7 home
edition.

I would like to import/rip from a DVD, a home video into a video file
such as MPG, WMV, etc.

After inserting the DVD into the CD/DVD drive, I used "Windows Live
Movie Maker" and selected other device. In the list presented was the
DVD. I selected that and it appeared to be "ripping" the video, but
afterwards, when I tried to view the video file, it wasn't available!

I don't know if Microsoft's Media Player can rip a video from DVD.
I am not that familiar with this new version of WMP yet.

Any suggestions?

Thank You in advance, John

This may work:
http://www.wikihow.com/Rip-a-DVD-to-an-AVI-or-MPG-File-Using-DVDx

If it does, report back.

 

[pjp]

Hi,

It wasn't long ago when I bought a Dell laptop with Windows 7 home
edition.

I would like to import/rip from a DVD, a home video into a video file
such as MPG, WMV, etc.

After inserting the DVD into the CD/DVD drive, I used "Windows Live
Movie Maker" and selected other device. In the list presented was the
DVD. I selected that and it appeared to be "ripping" the video, but
afterwards, when I tried to view the video file, it wasn't available!

I don't know if Microsoft's Media Player can rip a video from DVD.
I am not that familiar with this new version of WMP yet.

Any suggestions?

Thank You in advance, John

If the dvd is copy protected use "DVD Shrink" to first create a new
unprotected disk then try "Any Video Converter" to rip the VOB files to
the format you desire. Have to setup AVC first and must manually select
to merge VOB files if more than one involved but that aside I find it
works fine.

 

[Wildman]

Hi,

It wasn't long ago when I bought a Dell laptop with Windows 7 home
edition.

I would like to import/rip from a DVD, a home video into a video file
such as MPG, WMV, etc.

After inserting the DVD into the CD/DVD drive, I used "Windows Live
Movie Maker" and selected other device. In the list presented was the
DVD. I selected that and it appeared to be "ripping" the video, but
afterwards, when I tried to view the video file, it wasn't available!

I don't know if Microsoft's Media Player can rip a video from DVD.
I am not that familiar with this new version of WMP yet.

Any suggestions?

Thank You in advance, John

Handbrake should do what you want, however, it will not
work on copy protected DVDs. You will need something
like AnyDVD for that.

http://handbrake.fr/features.php

 

[jaugustine]

If the dvd is copy protected use "DVD Shrink" to first create a new
unprotected disk then try "Any Video Converter" to rip the VOB files to
the format you desire. Have to setup AVC first and must manually select
to merge VOB files if more than one involved but that aside I find it
works fine.

Hi,

I did not "copy protect" my own home made video (see above).

John

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per (e-mail address removed):

I did not "copy protect" my own home made video (see above).

Then I would second the motion to use HandBrake. It's not real fast,
but it's free. Rips to .MP4

 

[jaugustine]

This may work:
http://www.wikihow.com/Rip-a-DVD-to-an-AVI-or-MPG-File-Using-DVDx

If it does, report back.

Hi,

I do not recommend "DVDx 4.0.1.0". The resulting AVI and MPG (2) plays
ok in the WMP (Windows Media Player) that came with my Windows 7 Dell laptop.

However, those same video files have issues in my other WinXP Dell laptop
with WMP V10. Playing the AVI file only produces sound and playing the MPG
file has video without sound!

I also ripped a DVD into a FLV file, but that file doesn't play on my FLV
player in both laptops.

John

PS, I will not try another ap unless someone actually used it successfully.
I wasted a lot of time trying out that buggy DVDx.

 

[Paul]

Hi,

I did not "copy protect" my own home made video (see above).

John

Have you tried opening the video folder and just copying the VOB files ?
They're not encrypted, so just copying them should work.

Note that, due to rip lock on some drives, the transfer can be slow.

When I needed to copy a home video back to the hard drive, I think
I may have used Linux. On the theory it would bypass the rip lock.

Rip lock is the ability of the optical drive, to only spin fast enough
to deliver data to play at the normal "player" rate. I.e. 1.1x rather
than the 4x the media might be capable of. And then copying a dual layer
home made set of .vob files, takes two hours. Whereas, if you can coax
"normal full speed" from the drive, it might take half an hour (still
a long time).

Paul

 

[pjp]

Hi,

I do not recommend "DVDx 4.0.1.0". The resulting AVI and MPG (2) plays
ok in the WMP (Windows Media Player) that came with my Windows 7 Dell laptop.

However, those same video files have issues in my other WinXP Dell laptop
with WMP V10. Playing the AVI file only produces sound and playing the MPG
file has video without sound!

I also ripped a DVD into a FLV file, but that file doesn't play on my FLV
player in both laptops.

John

PS, I will not try another ap unless someone actually used it successfully.
I wasted a lot of time trying out that buggy DVDx.

I concur the new DVDX sucks big time. Too bad the older version doesn't
work under Win7 as it worked fine.

 

[pjp]

Have you tried opening the video folder and just copying the VOB files ?
They're not encrypted, so just copying them should work.

Note that, due to rip lock on some drives, the transfer can be slow.

When I needed to copy a home video back to the hard drive, I think
I may have used Linux. On the theory it would bypass the rip lock.

Rip lock is the ability of the optical drive, to only spin fast enough
to deliver data to play at the normal "player" rate. I.e. 1.1x rather
than the 4x the media might be capable of. And then copying a dual layer
home made set of .vob files, takes two hours. Whereas, if you can coax
"normal full speed" from the drive, it might take half an hour (still
a long time).

Paul

I rip a lot using multipule dvd drives and I've never seen any sign of
anything like that. Does such a drive also slow down if just copying the
vob files to your hard disk?

 

[SC Tom]

Hi,

I do not recommend "DVDx 4.0.1.0". The resulting AVI and MPG (2)
plays
ok in the WMP (Windows Media Player) that came with my Windows 7 Dell
laptop.

However, those same video files have issues in my other WinXP Dell
laptop
with WMP V10. Playing the AVI file only produces sound and playing the
MPG
file has video without sound!

I also ripped a DVD into a FLV file, but that file doesn't play on my
FLV
player in both laptops.

John

PS, I will not try another ap unless someone actually used it
successfully.
I wasted a lot of time trying out that buggy DVDx.

I tried the DVDx 4.0.1.0 Open Version, and have no trouble playing the
resultant .m4v files on my Win7 and Win8 PCs (using WMP or VLC), or on my
Android tablet (using BSPlayer Free).

I found to be smooth, error-free, and very user friendly. I would recommend
it for Win7 and up, but I can't comment on the WinXP problems since I don't
have anything left with that on it.

 

[SC Tom]

I tried the DVDx 4.0.1.0 Open Version, and have no trouble playing the
resultant .m4v files on my Win7 and Win8 PCs (using WMP or VLC), or on my
Android tablet (using BSPlayer Free).

I found to be smooth, error-free, and very user friendly. I would
recommend it for Win7 and up, but I can't comment on the WinXP problems
since I don't have anything left with that on it.

Never mind. For some odd reason, I was confusing my use of Handbrake with
DVDx. I'm calling it a senior moment :-(

 

[Paul]

I rip a lot using multipule dvd drives and I've never seen any sign of
anything like that. Does such a drive also slow down if just copying the
vob files to your hard disk?

When mine happened, it was:

1) Copy home made (not commercial) DVD to hard drive.
2) DVD was double sided 9GB.

The "time remaining" on the copy was two hours.

And I think I got around it by changing OSes.
And the copy time was a lot better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riplock

Paul

 

[Jim]

Hi,

I do not recommend "DVDx 4.0.1.0". The resulting AVI and MPG (2) plays
ok in the WMP (Windows Media Player) that came with my Windows 7 Dell laptop.

However, those same video files have issues in my other WinXP Dell laptop
with WMP V10. Playing the AVI file only produces sound and playing the MPG
file has video without sound!

I also ripped a DVD into a FLV file, but that file doesn't play on my FLV
player in both laptops.

John

PS, I will not try another ap unless someone actually used it successfully.
I wasted a lot of time trying out that buggy DVDx.

I use a program called Wondershare Video Converter and it converted
several DVDs to a format I could use on my IPad.

Hope this helps.

Jim

 

[jaugustine]

Hi,

I do not recommend "DVDx 4.0.1.0". The resulting AVI and MPG (2) plays
ok in the WMP (Windows Media Player) that came with my Windows 7 Dell laptop.

However, those same video files have issues in my other WinXP Dell laptop
with WMP V10. Playing the AVI file only produces sound and playing the MPG
file has video without sound!

I also ripped a DVD into a FLV file, but that file doesn't play on my FLV
player in both laptops.

John

PS, I will not try another ap unless someone actually used it successfully.
I wasted a lot of time trying out that buggy DVDx.

Hi,

I found one solution to the problems with DVDx. I used YTD (YouTube
Downloader) basic to convert the MP4 and MPG(2) files to WMV files.
I had no trouble viewing these WMV files using WMP 10 in a WinXP
laptop and WMP 9 in a Win98 laptop.

The YTD basic did not have the option to convert to FLV format.

John