My new Vista Business laptop has a very large hard drive
and long battery life.

Apparently I can watch movies on long flights by
in-advance pulling videos from DVDs and storing them in
some efficient format more suitable to the screen.
Therefore, I need some software that will read a DVD and
convert or compress it for viewing on a small screen.

I know absolutely nothing about the methods and tools
available.

???

Thanks,

Noguru

One more thing...

I'd like to preserve subtitles if possible.

"Hank" <> wrote in message
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> My new Vista Business laptop has a very large hard drive and long battery
> life.
>
> Apparently I can watch movies on long flights by in-advance pulling videos
> from DVDs and storing them in some efficient format more suitable to the
> screen. Therefore, I need some software that will read a DVD and convert
> or compress it for viewing on a small screen.
>
> I know absolutely nothing about the methods and tools available.
>
> ???
>
> Thanks,
>
> Noguru








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One more thing...

I'd like to preserve subtitles if possible.

"Hank" <> wrote in message
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> My new Vista Business laptop has a very large hard drive and long battery
> life.
>
> Apparently I can watch movies on long flights by in-advance pulling videos
> from DVDs and storing them in some efficient format more suitable to the
> screen. Therefore, I need some software that will read a DVD and convert
> or compress it for viewing on a small screen.
>
> I know absolutely nothing about the methods and tools available.
>
> ???
>
> Thanks,
>
> Noguru








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"Hank" <> wrote in message
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> One more thing...
>
> I'd like to preserve subtitles if possible.

If you copy the VIDEO_TS folder to the hard drive,
any software DVD player will be able to play the DVD
just as if it were on a DVD disk. You may have players
like WinDVD, or PowerDVD, that you might have gotten
bundled with a DVD drive. There are free players like
the VLC Media Player or my favorite Media Player
Classic, that will play DVDs, as well. You can set it up
so the movie menu plays when you click on a shortcut.

All you need is something to decrypt the encrypted DVD
so that you can copy the VIDEO_TS folder. For all but
the newest DVDs you can find free programs to do the
decryption, DVDShrink and DVDecryptor being the best
known.

A well respected commercial approach:


Many full length movies are under 6GB in size, so you
could be able to figure out how many you can put in the
space left on your hard drive. These would be exactly
like they are on the DVD. You can shrink them, giving
up some image quality, and put more on your hard drive.
You can convert them to another compression format
and fit more that way as well, but it will take time and
you probably can make space on your laptop drive for
enough, at the original 6GB size DVD quality.



Luck;
Ken

"Hank" <> wrote in message
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> One more thing...
>
> I'd like to preserve subtitles if possible.

If you copy the VIDEO_TS folder to the hard drive,
any software DVD player will be able to play the DVD
just as if it were on a DVD disk. You may have players
like WinDVD, or PowerDVD, that you might have gotten
bundled with a DVD drive. There are free players like
the VLC Media Player or my favorite Media Player
Classic, that will play DVDs, as well. You can set it up
so the movie menu plays when you click on a shortcut.

All you need is something to decrypt the encrypted DVD
so that you can copy the VIDEO_TS folder. For all but
the newest DVDs you can find free programs to do the
decryption, DVDShrink and DVDecryptor being the best
known.

A well respected commercial approach:


Many full length movies are under 6GB in size, so you
could be able to figure out how many you can put in the
space left on your hard drive. These would be exactly
like they are on the DVD. You can shrink them, giving
up some image quality, and put more on your hard drive.
You can convert them to another compression format
and fit more that way as well, but it will take time and
you probably can make space on your laptop drive for
enough, at the original 6GB size DVD quality.



Luck;
Ken

"Hank" <> wrote in message
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> Ken Maltby wrote:
>> "Hank" <> wrote in message
>> news:g1p5pk$j14$...
>>> One more thing...
>>>
>>> I'd like to preserve subtitles if possible.
>>
>> If you copy the VIDEO_TS folder to the hard drive,
>> any software DVD player will be able to play the DVD
>> just as if it were on a DVD disk. You may have players
>> like WinDVD, or PowerDVD, that you might have gotten
>> bundled with a DVD drive. There are free players like
>> the VLC Media Player or my favorite Media Player
>> Classic, that will play DVDs, as well. You can set it up
>> so the movie menu plays when you click on a shortcut.
>>
>> All you need is something to decrypt the encrypted DVD
>> so that you can copy the VIDEO_TS folder. For all but
>> the newest DVDs you can find free programs to do the
>> decryption, DVDShrink and DVDecryptor being the best
>> known.
>>
>> A well respected commercial approach:
>>
>>
>> Many full length movies are under 6GB in size, so you
>> could be able to figure out how many you can put in the
>> space left on your hard drive. These would be exactly
>> like they are on the DVD. You can shrink them, giving
>> up some image quality, and put more on your hard drive.
>> You can convert them to another compression format
>> and fit more that way as well, but it will take time and
>> you probably can make space on your laptop drive for
>> enough, at the original 6GB size DVD quality.
>>
>>
>>
>> Luck;
>> Ken
>>
>>
>
> This is the best advice because I don't need to become expert. Rather,
> I'll copy the videos to my hard drive (there's 100GB empty!) without
> modifying them.
> Thanks -


Ken always gives good advice.
Be sure to pay attention to what he said about decrypting.
An CSS encrypted (almost all are) video will NOT play back from the hard
drive.



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"Hank" <> wrote in message
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> Ken Maltby wrote:
>> "Hank" <> wrote in message
>> news:g1p5pk$j14$...
>>> One more thing...
>>>
>>> I'd like to preserve subtitles if possible.
>>
>> If you copy the VIDEO_TS folder to the hard drive,
>> any software DVD player will be able to play the DVD
>> just as if it were on a DVD disk. You may have players
>> like WinDVD, or PowerDVD, that you might have gotten
>> bundled with a DVD drive. There are free players like
>> the VLC Media Player or my favorite Media Player
>> Classic, that will play DVDs, as well. You can set it up
>> so the movie menu plays when you click on a shortcut.
>>
>> All you need is something to decrypt the encrypted DVD
>> so that you can copy the VIDEO_TS folder. For all but
>> the newest DVDs you can find free programs to do the
>> decryption, DVDShrink and DVDecryptor being the best
>> known.
>>
>> A well respected commercial approach:
>>
>>
>> Many full length movies are under 6GB in size, so you
>> could be able to figure out how many you can put in the
>> space left on your hard drive. These would be exactly
>> like they are on the DVD. You can shrink them, giving
>> up some image quality, and put more on your hard drive.
>> You can convert them to another compression format
>> and fit more that way as well, but it will take time and
>> you probably can make space on your laptop drive for
>> enough, at the original 6GB size DVD quality.
>>
>>
>>
>> Luck;
>> Ken
>>
>>
>
> This is the best advice because I don't need to become expert. Rather,
> I'll copy the videos to my hard drive (there's 100GB empty!) without
> modifying them.
> Thanks -


Ken always gives good advice.
Be sure to pay attention to what he said about decrypting.
An CSS encrypted (almost all are) video will NOT play back from the hard
drive.



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Ken Maltby wrote:
> "Hank" <> wrote in message
> news:g1p5pk$j14$...
>> One more thing...
>>
>> I'd like to preserve subtitles if possible.
>
> If you copy the VIDEO_TS folder to the hard drive,
> any software DVD player will be able to play the DVD
> just as if it were on a DVD disk. You may have players
> like WinDVD, or PowerDVD, that you might have gotten
> bundled with a DVD drive. There are free players like
> the VLC Media Player or my favorite Media Player
> Classic, that will play DVDs, as well. You can set it up
> so the movie menu plays when you click on a shortcut.
>
> All you need is something to decrypt the encrypted DVD
> so that you can copy the VIDEO_TS folder. For all but
> the newest DVDs you can find free programs to do the
> decryption, DVDShrink and DVDecryptor being the best
> known.
>
> A well respected commercial approach:
>
>
> Many full length movies are under 6GB in size, so you
> could be able to figure out how many you can put in the
> space left on your hard drive. These would be exactly
> like they are on the DVD. You can shrink them, giving
> up some image quality, and put more on your hard drive.
> You can convert them to another compression format
> and fit more that way as well, but it will take time and
> you probably can make space on your laptop drive for
> enough, at the original 6GB size DVD quality.
>
>
>
> Luck;
> Ken
>
>

Ken,

Is there a difference between DVDecryptor and DVD
Decrypter? I couldn't find the former, but the latter
seems to work properly. However, it delivers multiple
copies of some files - that must be sorted out.

You're right in that the most sensible solution is to
use them undiminished in quality or size - there's
plenty of disk space.

And btw, every dvd that I wish to put on my hard drive
for travel is owned by someone in the household - this
is not piracy, as I understand it.

Thanks,
Hank