Copying a DVD to my hard drive

Mehta23 · Oct 22, 2013

I have a homemade DVD that I want to edit. I've got a copy of Vegas (which will more than likely be overkill for what I want to do) but I don't really know what I need to do to get a copy of the DVD. I've been told something like MakeMKV would be suitable, but I just want to check this is the best thing to do?

Cheers.

SiempreTuna · Oct 22, 2013

Not sure either - I think you just need to grab the biggest file you can find on the DVD and copy it to your HDD. You should then be able to open this with your editing software. Least, that's how I remember it working with other video .. but it has been a while

Mehta23 · Oct 22, 2013

Actually, that does work - Windows Media player wouldn't play it, kbut VLC does. Need to check if anything will open that file format though

edit: crap - Vegas doesn't open any of them, even the MKV files I ripped earlier -_- back to the drawing board then (assuming even something basic like WMM wouldn't recognise it either)

edit 2 : using handbrake and dvd flick, I've managed to copy the files off the original and burn a copy of the DVD. However, when I view these (and I think it happens on the original) I see lots of horizontal lines on the picture? Is this fixable?

striker325 · Nov 11, 2013

Nice! I also use handbrake. You can try "DVD shrink" next time.

unnamedny · Nov 13, 2013

Get an app such as ISOmaker or Mgiciso, powerISO. You can make an image of DVD. to play it on pc use DAEMONtool. If you want to burn it back to the disk, just use any burning apps, such as NERO to "burn image"

have you tried any dvd rippers?

Mehta23 · Nov 13, 2013

unnamedny said:
Get an app such as ISOmaker or Mgiciso, powerISO. You can make an image of DVD. to play it on pc use DAEMONtool. If you want to burn it back to the disk, just use any burning apps, such as NERO to "burn image"

have you tried any dvd rippers?

Would making an iso of the DVD remove the horizontal lines?

unnamedny · Nov 13, 2013

Mehta23 said:
Would making an iso of the DVD remove the horizontal lines?

lines are probably from bad encoding of video, maybe bad codec. It might help.

mikedt · Nov 13, 2013

What do the lines actually look like, can you post a screen-shot or two? As it might give us a clue as to what's causing them. Do they look anything like this?

Quite possibly it's an interlacing artifact. DVD video is often interlaced scan rather than progressive scan, and it can occasionally leave artifacts when transcoded into a progressive scan format like MP4. There are settings in things like Handbrake and DVD Shrink for interlaced video. If it's a homemade DVD and the source was a camcorder, then it will be interlaced video.

The whole idea of interlaced scanning is a legacy thing from analogue CRT TVs. Modern compression technologies along with digital TVs and computers don't need to do it.

Mehta23 · Nov 14, 2013

Yeah, it looks like that in the picture. So would the idea of making an iso of the DVD rather than extracting the video files (I think I may have converted them into MP4 like you said) leave the video without the interlacing?

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