Zelandeth
Flashlight Enthusiast
And no, not because I want to copy them...why'd I want to copy DVD's I already own?
Basic reasons for wanting to do this are twofold:
1. The DVD ROM drive in my computer makes as much noise when playing back a movie as a small aircraft taking off - which is just plain ANNOYING.
2. Occsionally - just occasionally, it'd be nice to watch a movie on the laptop too, which doesn't have a DVD ROM drive. I realise I'd need to reduce the quality a few zillion times, but we're only talking about having it playing back in a box in the corner of the screen when I'm working anyway! This isn't a 42" plasma screen TV we're talking about.
It's probably a silly question, and a quick Google search would have probably yielded the answer - but search engines have been consistently annoying me lately, so I figured I'd actually ask people who will know the answers before wasting a whole evening looking for stuff.
All I need is something to convert the DVD into a useable file (AVI/MPEG - heck, even a VCD would do, the CD drive's quiet)...and I'm sure something out there does exist to do this. Just not something I've ever investigated before.
In this day where the PC is becoming a Media Centre - it seems logical to me that there would be something out there which can remove the part of watching movies on it, which in my case means balancing on top of a revolving chair to try to reach the top shelf of the bookcase where the DVD's are kept!...when there's much, much harddrive space could be used for that...
Basic reasons for wanting to do this are twofold:
1. The DVD ROM drive in my computer makes as much noise when playing back a movie as a small aircraft taking off - which is just plain ANNOYING.
2. Occsionally - just occasionally, it'd be nice to watch a movie on the laptop too, which doesn't have a DVD ROM drive. I realise I'd need to reduce the quality a few zillion times, but we're only talking about having it playing back in a box in the corner of the screen when I'm working anyway! This isn't a 42" plasma screen TV we're talking about.
It's probably a silly question, and a quick Google search would have probably yielded the answer - but search engines have been consistently annoying me lately, so I figured I'd actually ask people who will know the answers before wasting a whole evening looking for stuff.
All I need is something to convert the DVD into a useable file (AVI/MPEG - heck, even a VCD would do, the CD drive's quiet)...and I'm sure something out there does exist to do this. Just not something I've ever investigated before.
In this day where the PC is becoming a Media Centre - it seems logical to me that there would be something out there which can remove the part of watching movies on it, which in my case means balancing on top of a revolving chair to try to reach the top shelf of the bookcase where the DVD's are kept!...when there's much, much harddrive space could be used for that...