I wish to copy files from DVDs to my computer. Sadly they are labelled trck1 etc on the discs, so I cannot copy more than one. Is there away around this apart from laboriously rebelling each individually? TIA
Put each DVD into a separate folder?
If you use Windows Media Player or VLC or similar (rather than File Manager), I think they will catalogue the files with artist/title information, if that's available on the internet.
Owain
More info needed. Are these the names on a commercial disc. I think most discs these days are protected and in any case running them is seldom that simple. You need a dvd conversion tool. I'm a bit out of the loop these days on the state of the arrt. Brian
First question is, are these movie DVDs or data DVDs? And if movies, are the commercial ones (i.e. likely to have copy protection)?
(if data, and just a filename collision problem - then I can do different instructions!)
For copying copy protected DVDs you need DVD "ripper" software that can also disable the CSS protection on the disk. There are many ways to do this - both free and paid for. Of the free options I would look at:
So programs like Handbrake:
Surely you simply copy each DVD to a different directory (folder) on the computer, then the names won't clash.
Yes I could but that is very cumbersome, especially if I wish to play random tracks.
If you convert each complete DVD to a single video file, the problem goes away. So a typical DVD rip will contain a VIDEO_TS folder, that in turn contains a number of .VOB, .IFO, and .BUP files with names often starting VTS_ etc. If you point Handbrake at the whole folder, it will render the whole lot down to a single file of your choice, e.g: The_sound_of_music.mk4 :-)
DVD Shrink, freeware.
It sounds like you actually have CDs
there is a program called abcde
sadly its nor for windows
But its worth installing linux just to use it
If you are using the file manager let it rename the files when it flags up that the file names are duplicated. You should be able to do it in one batch per disk and you'll get files named track 1 (2) etc.
Most Media Players will random play from a selection of directories.
Owain
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Put each one in a separate folder on the computer.
You need to do something so you can identify the file by name anyway.
Some file copy systems will add an incrementing number to the file name automatically if you don?t need a sensible label.
There are plenty of CD rippers for Windows which work the same way. I've ripped DVDs, but I forget how.
You can't just copy the files off an audio CD; you need to 'rip' them to convert the format.
It would have been helpful if the OP had said what kind of discs they were: actually DVDs, or maybe CDs. Commercially produced, or home made.
I vaguely heard a rumour that the copy protection on new BluRay 4k disks was more sophisticated; do you know if these can be copied just as easily? Not that I have many of them!
they are very hard to rip.
I think only Apple kit can play them let alone rip them
But that may be old news.
I have two samples in this picture.
The bottom picture is a DVD Video dual layer [hollywood] (up to 9GB or so)
The top one needs a ripper.
VLC does one track at a time. Yikes!
Results: All tracks in one shot, but a 40 minute CD takes 10 minutes to rip. EAC slows the drive down, if there are errors. It spotted at least two recoverable errors on my media.
If you made your own DVD Video (I have a total of 3 discs), the .vob on those are not encrypted, and just copy. VLC could play those.
If the title was purchased at the store, a Hollywood title, those are protected by CSS (and many other protectors, too numerous to mention). You need a DeCSS at a minimum to copy off the stuff there, and put it in a format it can be used.
site:videohelp.com dvd copy
You can test VLC and see what it can do. It's supposed to at some point, had libdvdcss in it. Use the most recent version (3.0.8) since older versions couldn't play the video without artifacts.
With the "Capture menu" disabled, it captured the first selection (1 hour 48 minutes) and converted that to a
1.1GB MP4. It then started capturing the other selections on the DVD, but the encoder stopped and no more data was added to the output file.I expect with some trouble, you could get it to capture the second selection and so on.
VLC will use some hardware acceleration on your computer, it will decode the video with NVDEC or similar. But it chose to recompress the movie with the CPU. It took 5GB of files off the DVD and made the 1.1GB output from it. I think the processing rate was about 10x realtime or so. A 2 hour movie would be 12 minutes, if that works out. I'd rather see it use the video card for both decode and re-encode, but maybe some day.
I had something on Linux that did a better job. I don't remember what the output format was, and I think I chucked the files (since I can always decrypt it again).
AnyDVD HD (and others) will rip them IIUC, however the trick is finding a COTS Blueray drive that will read the disks. Typically you need to get one of the UHD compatible drives[1] for which a modified firmware is available, and then flash it with the new firmware. (in effect downgrading the drive to remove some of the latest protections)
[1] Asus and LG both make some IIRC.
Exact Audio Copy is my favourite for ripping audio, saving to .flac, and automatically getting all the track info and album art at the same time.
That makes sense. I've noticed that with a commercial player you can't even split the signal as the player demands a handshake with the individual display rather than an intermediate switch.
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