converting blue ray and dvd to play from drive

[captaindj2006]

Hello Everyone,

I have a couple questions so I thought putting them in here might be the best place. I apologize if it isn't.

I am trying to accomplish 1 thing but using a couple different dvd formats.

First, not that it necessarily matters but at least you'll understand my motivation of doing it and doing it right the first time.

I have a 1tb drive I want to store my audio/video files on. I'm a C5/C6 quad and need help everytime I want to watch a movie. So I'm tryng to store them digitally on a drive and play them from there.
I just bought my first blu ray player and started buying the movies.

I stumbled across the WD USB to HDMI converter this weekend for $69.95, the price was a misprint but BB still honoered it.

I need help converting the movies so I really want to try to get it right the first time. What is the best way and highest quality way to put both my regular and blu ray movies onto my drive and play them using the WD media player?

My computer is runnng XP and it only has a stadard cd/dvd burner in it.

I appreciate the help.

Respectfully,

Dennis

[redwudz]

If you don't care about space, you can rip your movies to the hard drive with something like the freeware DVDFab HD Decrypter. Or you can use DVD Shrink to choose just the main movie and the preferred size and play it back as an ISO or VIDEO_TS folder.

Blu-ray will need to be ripped with a program like AnyDVD and a Blu-ray computer drive. $$ Unless you want to use about 25GB of hard drive space for the ripped file, you can convert them to MKV or similar high quality formats with something like RipBot264. Takes quite a few hours.

There are other ways to do both operations, but the setups above work well.

And welcome to our forums.

[Krispy Kritter]

The first step is to get a copy onto your computer. You can use an app such as DVDFab HD Decrypter to rip the movies onto your HDD. After they are on your HDD, it is simply a matter of choosing a format and encoding. The formats of choice would be Divx/xvid (avi) or h.264 (mkv).

[captaindj2006]

Thank you very much for the help and welcome.