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Original Message

Name: duncan
Date: December 23, 2003 at 03:36:25 Pacific
Subject: dvd to wmp
OS: xp pro
CPU/Ram: 1.2 / 256ddr

Comment:

I have a dvd with family stuff on it I am wondering if I can convert it from dvd format to say wmp/avi etc format to enable to play on my computer.
Thanking you all in anticipation and best wishes for xmas and new year.
regards,
duncan

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Response Number 1

Name: Jonny Bolt
Date: December 23, 2003 at 03:48:38 Pacific

Reply:

YOu can use Windows Media Player to play DVD's. I do. I also use WinDVD. Just right click on your DVD drive, and click "Open with", and choose WMP.

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Response Number 2

Name: duncan
Date: December 23, 2003 at 04:19:39 Pacific

Reply:

jonny bolt thanx for the reply but I did not explain properly my apologies what I would like to do is save the dvd to my hard drive to play from the hard drive I hope that this makes more sense.
Thanx again in anticipation.
regards,
duncan

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Response Number 3

Name: SullyD
Date: December 23, 2003 at 10:20:59 Pacific

Reply:

Duncan,
You can do this with software...hundreds are available. Type "convert dvd to avi" into google and you could be there looking for hours. I personally don't do any dvd ripping, but I convert alot of video from a camera.
There's alot of different formats with different quality settings and different codecs. AVI will usually give you a smaller file, but MPEG will give you better quality (depending on your settings...there's MPEG 1 and MPEG 2).
There's no simple way to tell you how to go about this other than..."get ready to search and learn"
SullyD

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Response Number 4

Name: duncan
Date: December 23, 2003 at 10:26:11 Pacific

Reply:

SullyD
Thanx for the info will do a search heres hoping.
regards,
duncan

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Response Number 5

Name: dwardy
Date: December 23, 2003 at 10:32:51 Pacific

Reply:

For dvd ripping/encoding see www.doom9.org.
They have everything you need.

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Response Number 6

Name: zeb001
Date: December 23, 2003 at 10:33:04 Pacific

Reply:

duncan look for a program call dvdx it will convert dvd to mpeg 1 or 2 also avi formats.but do like sullyd said make mpeg's.

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Response Number 7

Name: duncan
Date: December 23, 2003 at 12:46:27 Pacific

Reply:

Thanks guys I tried a couple of progs called videocleaner and magicdvdripper but no success.
I will try the 2 progs you guys suggested and get back to you thanks again.
regards,
duncan

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Response Number 8

Name: dwardy
Date: December 23, 2003 at 14:43:55 Pacific

Reply:

Get the gordian knot rippack from doom9.org. It is esentially a gui front end for several apps used for ripping/encoding high qulity. DVD decrypter, dvd2avi, nandubmod, besweet, Vobsub. You can make very high quality divx encoded avi's or simply plug your generated d2v or avisynth script into tmpgenc and make a very nice mpg video.
It will require some reading to learn how each app does it's thing but very much worth it.

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Response Number 9

Name: duncan
Date: December 24, 2003 at 02:04:51 Pacific

Reply:

Thanks again guys I tried out DVDX and it worked great with ease.
Just one point on the doom9.org when I tried their site for the software it asked for login and password for members which I did not have and would have to buy?.
best wishes to all for the festive period.
regards,
duncan

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