Free program to copy Movie dvd`s to my portable hdd

[rob74]

I have tried imgburn with no success, so now I have the movie on two seperate files in my hdd, an ISO file and an image file,and I cannot get the movie to play, please help!

[jman98]

ImgBurn is only capable of copying non-commercial DVDs without any copy protection. You need to use something like AnyDVD or DVDFab to copy commercial DVDs. The old DVDDecrypter program MIGHT work on most DVDs, but do note that it will not correctly rip DVDs using ARCCOS or other similar bad sector methods of copy protection as DVDDecrypter has not been updated in years and cannot be updated any more due to a legal settlement the author agreed to.

[rob74]

Would I only have to download the one program, sayAnyDVD, and that would do the job, i wouldnt have to download anything else would I?

[jman98]

Just one program. However, note that DVDFab has a free version that works on most but not all DVDs. It trails the commercial version by about 6 months. I don't think AnyDVD has a free version - not sure though. If you're willing to pay (it's expensive though) you can get updates for the life of your support package on both. Otherwise you get updates for however long you paid for at purchase time. Updates are fairly quick but no promises that every disc you buy on the day of release can get immediately ripped. Sony discs are some of the hardest to rip and their constantly changing copy protection does require updated versions of your ripping software. You may have to wait a week or two or maybe even a month in a worst case scenario. In general region 1 DVDs tend to be harder to rip than discs in other regions.

[rob74]

It will be mostly older movies I want to watch anyway, so i`ll try the DVDfab. I work onboard ship and this is just to save me carting dvd`s all over the place.