Transferring legal DVD to digital format for flash drive viewing

[tryingcake]

HI, everyone. I came across this website as I was doggedly searching for a way to put my wedding DVD on to a flash drive. The total space needed is 1.92GB.

I put together my own wedding DVD (made 2 years ago), so it's a legal copy belonging to me.

I cannot figure out how to get it to play off of a flash drive. I can copy to a flash drive, but it won't play as one complete video. You have to go back and forth starting each segment as a separate video.

I know nothing about this stuff - so I'm giving you all info I think you may need:

I made the movie using Corel Video Studio 12. That computer has since crashed and I no longer have those original files - which I know would make my life so much easier. I only have the final DVDs I made using Nero 9 to make copies. The files in the folder are:

Video_TS
Video_TS
VTS_01_0
VTS_01_0
VTS_01_1
VTS_01_2
VTS_01_3

How do I get it to play from a flash? You will be giving directions to someone who knows little about this, so I appreciate your help greatly.

I still have the Corel Video Studio 12 and Nero 9 which I use for making new movies and putting them on a flash drive to begin with. I need help with converting a actual DVD. Thank you sooo much!!

[tryingcake]

Oh, and if a thread already exists for this, I'm sorry to have double posted. I surfed for about 15 minutes and found nothing that could help me. Please post the link for me. Thanks, again!!

[Baldrick]

Use a good software player with dvd folder playback like VLC or MPC, select open folder and open the video_ts and it should work as a normal dvd.

[yoda313]

Baldricks suggestion will work just fine.

However if you want to actually CONVERT the file to another format thats a little more complicated.

Programs like super, format factory, and xvid4psp are quite capable of doing this.

I find it easier to use dvd shrink to make a single vob file after ripping the dvd - you can use no compression in the prefferences menu and de-select split vob into 1gb chunks - than you will get a single vob file with just the movie in it in a video_ts folder. Than you can load that single vob into any number of converters. ------ However many do read whole dvd folders I just like working with merged single vob files for simplicity sake.

You have any number of formats you can convert to - xvid, divx, windows media video, h264 etc. What you use depends on how small you need the file to be and whether or not you'll be playing it back on something other than a computer. If you are playing it back on a game console or dvd or bluray player they all have their own special requirements - to an extent - some do have cross platform compatibility but just because you make a divx or xvid file doesn't necessarily mean your playback unit will play it.

Let us know your intent for viewing if you do need a different format besides a ripped dvd folder.

[oscarbfrog]

i cannot include an executable (llike vlc / mpc) on this thymbdrive .. the dvd, UNprotected, legally copyable, has to run with media player on whetever machie my wife has access to .. in several locatoins .. as well as at home. since i can;t have an executable on the thubm dreive, how do i transfer/copy and have it avail to play? i set all email replies on to xxx@yyy.zzz ... tia

[ejolson]

I cannot figure out how to get it to play off of a flash drive. I can copy to a flash drive, but it won't play as one complete video. You have to go back and forth starting each segment as a separate video.

The files in the folder are:

Video_TS
Video_TS
VTS_01_0
VTS_01_0
VTS_01_1
VTS_01_2
VTS_01_3

All you need to do is concatenate them. From a command shell in Windows the command is

copy /b VTS_01_0.VOB + VTS_01_1.VOB + VTS_01_2.VOB + VTS_01_3.VOB wedding.mpg

in OS/X it would be

cat VTS_01_0.VOB VTS_01_1.VOB VTS_01_2.VOB VTS_01_3.VOB wedding.mpg

Note that if VTS_01_0.VOB is only a short file containing a menu, leave it out.

[aedipuss]

VOB2MPG

[jman98]

i cannot include an executable (llike vlc / mpc) on this thymbdrive .. the dvd, UNprotected, legally copyable, has to run with media player on whetever machie my wife has access to .. in several locatoins .. as well as at home. since i can;t have an executable on the thubm dreive, how do i transfer/copy and have it avail to play? i set all email replies on to ... tia

You waited over 6 months to say THAT??? And you had to create a new user account as well. Yeah, clearly this project was just incredibly important to you.

[oscarbfrog]

jman98;2140558 :: You waited over 6 months to say THAT??? And you had to create a new user account as well. Yeah, clearly this project was just incredibly important to you.

======>> methinks you erred by selecting the wroing user .. to wit: oscarbfrog Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: ppl;s republic of ann arbor ... 6 days perhaps ...

OH! ejolson ...thank you, thank you, etc.

[deadrats]

======>> methinks you erred by selecting the wroing user .. to wit: oscarbfrog Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: ppl;s republic of ann arbor ... 6 days perhaps ...

he did no such thing, it's obvious that both the OP account and this frog account belong to the same person, even a blind man could see that.

[usually_quiet]

oscarbfrog, it isn't wise post your email address in public forums. You may find yourself receiving a lot of extra spam instead of answers to your posts.

jman98, perhaps you will consider removing froggy's address from the quote as well.

[transporterfan]

This is a bit of a silly post but an interesting question.
Guessing he needs a wedding gallery to tote about for his business.
This means hoping that whoever views it has the relevant codecs..
The question should be 'how do I ensure the other person can play it on their computer?'

Simple answer: encapsulate the video WITH the codec AND a player.
In other words, make it an executable.

http://www.shareit.com/product.html?productid=300151491

There is no other way other than including a portable-build player on the drive.

One way or another an .exe file (of some description) has to be present on the thumbdrive.

[Baldrick]

This is a bit of a silly post but an interesting question.
Guessing he needs a wedding gallery to tote about for his business.
This means hoping that whoever views it has the relevant codecs..
The question should be 'how do I ensure the other person can play it on their computer?'

Simple answer: encapsulate the video WITH the codec AND a player.
In other words, make it an executable.

http://www.shareit.com/product.html?productid=300151491

There is no other way without being able to include a portable-build player on the drive.

One way or another an .exe file (of some description) has to be present on the thumbdrive.

Or use MakeinstantPlayer. It's free.

[transporterfan]

Nice one. I didn't know of that! Thanks Baldrick.

[Baldrick]

i can;t have an executable on the thubm dreiv

So it will fail...so oscarbfrong must reconvert to mpeg1. That works on ALL systems....but wont look that good though...

[transporterfan]

Nice to see the Brain in action.

[Lighto]

Why does the OP not simple copy all the content of the DVD along with a portable version of VLC onto the flash drive?

[Ai Haibara]

i cannot include an executable (llike vlc / mpc) on this thymbdrive .. the dvd, UNprotected, legally copyable, has to run with media player on whetever machie my wife has access to .. in several locatoins .. as well as at home. since i can;t have an executable on the thubm dreive, how do i transfer/copy and have it avail to play?

Apparently, he can't include a player. Don't know why a portable player couldn't be used, indeed, though.