How to copy home DVDs to hard drive?

I sent away some home videotapes to a company called Yes DVD and they created DVDs for me. I now want to make a safety copy on my PC hard drive. I'm running Vista Home Premium. Can anyone recommend a program to do this?

 

Google for a program called dvd shrink.

 

Keeping it within the MG family, check out:

DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4020
DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.
Bazza's note: Only a 1 meg download, and has an excellent rating. :cool

 

You should just be able to open the DVD in Explorer and drag the VIDEO_TS folder onto your desktop or into any other folder.

In the unlikely event it has CSS encryption, use DVDFab Decrypter.

 

I used DVD Shrink to rip the DVD files from the physical DVD to my physical hard drive on my PC.....now I cannot figure out how to play the movie from my hard drive.....I do not want to burn a DVD copy....I just want to have a security backup copy on the hard drive, and also be able to view the movies from my hard drive.

Thanks.

 

Did the disc play on your PC?

 

yes it plays ok

 

What application did you use to watch the DVD?

 

originally I had no idea ... I was hoping/looking for an "autoplay" file to click....based on an input I received 5 mins ago, I downloaded a program called vlc media player from major geeks, and that does play some of the files....i guess i was hoping there'd be an easy way to autoplay the entire contents of the DVD that I transferred to my hard drive...very complicated stuff!

 

Your software DVD player should have the option to open a file. Just browse to the VIDEO_TS folder and it should do the rest. I can't give you anything more specific.

 

thank you