Re: Playing DVD's (Films) from hard disk with WMP V11 ?
- From: cwdjrxyz <spamtrap2@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:37:22 -0700 (PDT)
On Oct 28, 5:39 pm, cwdjrxyz <spamtr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 28, 8:00 am, Joco <J...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I travel a lot and would like to copy DVD films (which I own) to a WD
Passport drive for playback with WMP11 or other software, on my laptop.
Pease could you advise me how to do this
Thank you
If the DVD movies are are commercial ones, even if you own them, they
most likely are encrypted so that you can not rip them to a computer
HD. There are a few exceptions - mainly very old movies. Most are
encrypted so they can not be recorded either on a computer or from an
analog stream to a stand alone DVD recorder. There are decryption
programs for sale that often will work, but making and selling them is
illegal in most countries. I notice you are in the UK. A few years ago
officials in the UK got a court order to shut down a web site in the
UK that offered a decryption program for free. However such programs
are not illegal in all countries, and someone in a small island state
is selling a decryption program for movies,including new HD formats,
without problems. However, the jury is still out in many countries,
including the US, if making a single backup copy of your own protected
DVD movie is illegal. One recent court decision allowed making a
single copy of a movie on a high end DVD server. This will no doubt be
appealed up to the US supreme court by the movie company lawyers. Also
another US company is now selling a program to make a single backup
copy of a protected DVD movie. They heard from the lawyers for the
movie companies nearly as soon as they released the program, and this
too likely will be appealed all of the way to the supreme court. It
could be several years before this matter is settled for good.
In case you have an unprotected movie, there are many programs that
will rip it to the computer HD. However many computer player programs
will not play the .vob files used on DVD movies from the HD. However
if you rip the movie as an iso image file, which many ripping programs
will do, the movie on the HD is playable on many more computer player
programs, and you can still record a DVD from the iso image file if
you wish to.
To be more specific, if you rip a DVD to the HD as an ISO file as can
be done with many ripping programs, WMP 11, at least on my XP desktop,
can show it just fine if you install a free virtual drive program. The
virtual drive acts as if you added more drives, but instead of
inputting an actual DVD, it connects to DVD data you have ripped to
the HD ISO file. The free virtual drive program I use is from the
CloneDVD people and allows 6 virtual drives, so you can play up to 6
movies that you have ripped to the HD as ISO files. It is just a
matter of clicking on a selected virtual drive to start a movie. The
virtual drives appear on the MyComputer page that shows icons for the
various HDs and optical media drives installed on the computer. Since
an ISO file retains the full quality of a DVD, you can also burn a DVD
from it with most DVD burning programs without loss of quality. I can
see how this might be useful for someone with a notebook who travels
with it. I never have done that, because I only have a desktop.
However I did just test the virtual drive with an ISO file and WMP 11
to be certain that everything worked easily with that combination.
.
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