Video on my dvd player

[moonshadow]

Hi,
Ive got say 20 mins of tv on my dvd hard drive.
Is there any way I can get that over to the hard drive of my computor ?
thanks for help or comment

[Baldrick]

dvd hard drive? YOu mean standalone dvd recorder? What model?
Record to dvdr and copy?
And what does this has to do with any video streaming?

[moonshadow]

Its a Panasonic dvd recorder.

I guess the HD inside there is pretty similar to the HD in
my computor, if only there was some way of transfering data !

[Baldrick]

Moving you to our dvd recorder section.

Nope, I don't know anything about dvd recorders.

[jman98]

Is there any way I can get that over to the hard drive of my computor ?

Yes.
1) Make a DVD out of it and rip the DVD on the computer.
- or -
2) Buy a video capture card and play the video on the DVD recorder and send the video and audio output to the capture card which records it in real time.

DVD recorders encrypt the drives to prevent you from doing what you probably really want to do, which is to just remove the drive and attach it to a PC. You can do that, but you'll find out that you can't do anything with the encrypted video on the disk. This is why you have to use either method 1 or method 2 above if you want to get the video onto a PC.

[moonshadow]

Thanks jman, option 1 is prob my best option

maybe I could record it to a dvd re recordable disc ?

put the disc into my comp and move the files to documents !
Ill have to give it a try !

[moonshadow]

just put a dvd -r from my dvd recorder... (finalized)
put it into computor
go to my computor

right click on dvd
then open

I can see files in there, a lot of bs player files
hit on them and they play samples of the video... perhaps 30 seconds.
but they are just short samples

The main 60 mins of the video is kind of locked into a central play system.
I can play them ok say in windows media player
But I can't get hold of the video files to edit them
or get them into virtual dub.

I used to get love film dvds delivered by post, sometimes 3 a week
you could get into them on the comp and copy the files over to documents very easily.

Finalizing the dvd (on my panasonic ) obviously results in a different system