How to watch movie from my hard drive

Hi, I have a small Acer 3820 laptop which does not have a CD Drive. I use an external USB drive if I want to install anything but I am hoping there is a way to transfer movies to the hard drive so I can watch from my laptop without having the disc. Using the external drive whilst travelling in the confined area of a plane is impractical. I use DVD Fab (free) to rip and burn and I also have Nero. Does anyone have a simple solution? I am using Windows 7 Home Premium.

 

Well, the "solution" that I found: somebody copied a few movies into the company's station, I copied them into my 8 Gigs USB, then I transfered to my computer and I watch them at home with WMP.:-o

 

One way is to convert the discs to an ISO,a DVD disc image on your hard drive using NERO then open them with Daemon tools,your movies will play like you have them in the DVD drive.

http://majorgeeks.com/DAEMON_Tools_Lite_d6270.html

If you want to save hard drive space,open your 'home video' DVD files in NERO and convert them to around a 1GB size,in NERO you simply go through the process of burning a disk but set the options to create and image file and deselect burn to disk,it will then only create a video file which can be copy and pasted like any other file.

 

VLC player will play ISO videos - as well as every other format i've ever tried .

 

Interesting, I didn't know that. I'll have to try it next time I have a video image file.

 

you could also use a virtual dvd drive and mount the .ISO movie

Virtual CloneDrive is a free download do a google for it.
this will create a virtual drive on your computer,that can read iso files as if they were burned to a dvd and inserted into a DVD drive.

 

thanks for the suggestions. VLC did the trick. It looked the easiest option so I tried it first and it is just what I want. I have a large HD so I don't have to worry about space.
thanks again everyone.

 

Hi,
following on from my last post on this subject I forgot to say that I tried to use Daemon tools but didn't like it so uninstalled it. The problem is that now every time I open my computer I get an annoying message from Daemon Tools as follows.

this program requires at least Windows 2000 with SPTD 1.60 or higher.
Kernel debugger must be deactivated.

I have googled this but so far no joy. I can't find any relative files when I do a search so am a bit stumped.

One fix was to open the registry and navigate to sptd and change the start value to 4 and reboot. Problem is that the value was already 4!.

CCleaner hasn't worked so now I hope someone can give me some hints.

thanks

 

Sounds like a bad uninstall. You might try installing the program again, and then uninstalling it using Revo.

 

it looks like there is software trying to start and looking for bla bla bla...

What software is trying to start?

(Regestry runs folders)

Autoruns and see whats starts at boot up then find the regestry entries for that if its whats causing the flag then remove the regestry entry all together.
could have been left from an uninstall ......

 

I reinstalled Daemon and used the uninstaller to clear it out. After doing a search one registry entry showed up so deleted that and problem solved. thanks for the help