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Any ideas?
Ok, I'm totally new on this, and don't know any of the technical stuff....at all! I just want to copy my DVDs onto my computer so that I can watch them at a later time in Media Center. I am running windows 7. I don't want to spend alot (if any) of money, and definately need step by step help.
Can anyone please help me? I've tried alot of the recommended programs on here, but I know so little, I'm not having any luck. I've been working at it for 2 days on this, and am VERY frustrated.
Can someone PLEASE help me?
Thanks in advance!
Lisa
We need more information. What, exactly have you done and what is happening (or not happening, as the case may be).
You also might want to consider starting your own thread, as video manipulation can get somewhat involved.
Welcome Lisa,
You said you've been working on this for two days, What have you tried?
Since this thread is already pretty long, You would get more immediate help if you start your own Here Media Center - Windows 7 Forums There's alot of help here.
Derek
Rather than get into all the technicals of decrypting and re-coding/ re-muxing if you do not wish to learn right now,
why not give this a try:
MakeMKV - Make MKV from Blu-ray and DVD
It will take make a single MKV file, from your discs of the main movie, complete with subs, but will be the same size and qaulity as the original source was.
The good thing is:
its one step.
its Lossless
no recode/encoding necc.
fairly quick (depending on your DVD/BD drive speed)
The downside is it will start taking alot more HD space, than a compressed movie will.
especially if your decrypting Blurays which can be upwards of 25-40Gb per film.
4.3-7.5GB for DVDs
If you want to compress them to save space, youll need to to learn some encoding, such as with MeGUI.
You will also need the proper splitters to watch a MKV file. Such as in Shark007s codec pack .. Haali Splitter.
Read the page 2 and page 3 of this thread , I told Johney about handbrake (though he was reluctant to use it). HandBrake is a very good program to rip dvds into avi or mkv with almost minimum quality loss, comes free to use.
It will reduce your hdd cost as well, coz a dvdrip is much smaller than a dvd. There is a guideline to arrange media center movie library (in page 2 and 3), too. Try it, if still it is a problem, just inform, "step by step help" will be provided.