ripping old VCD / DVD discs ??

[kenny1999]

I have a number of old VCD / DVD discs more than 10 years that I want to make a copy of them to hard drives, so as to avoid possible crack, damage or loss of the physical discs in the future.

What is the easiest way while preserving the quality as original as possible ?

I have little experience of doing this

Please suggest for me I'm a newbie

[hech54]

You can preserve 100% of the original quality.

[johnmeyer]

You should start by reading the VCD tutorial on this site:

https://www.videohelp.com/vcd

Just copy files to your hard drive and use the MPEG-1 files.

[lingyi]

In general*, you can just copy the .dat files directly from the disc. To ensure playback and editing compatibility, convert the .dat files to .mpg with VCDEasy. There's no change in quality as .dat files are the same as .mpg (mpeg 1) with some extra info in the header which may cause issues with some (usually older) playback and editing software.

If you want to create a new VCD from the files, you'll have to create the proper VCD structure with a program like VCDEasy before burning. You could also create a DVD Video disc since 352x240 (NTSC) & 352x288 (PAL) Mpeg 1 video is supported by the DVD spec.

*There are some wildly out of spec VCDs primarily from India with copy protection that's never been cracked. I've never heard about any VCD from Asia having any type of copy protection.

[Cornucopia]

"Just copying" is not the best method for VCDs, as the mpeg files (*.DAT as authored on disc) reside in CDXA Mode2Form2 disc sectors, so if you don't properly strip off the sector overhead metadata during or immediately after ripping, you will have garbage mixed in with every sector's-worth of data copied. Garbage which can corrupt playback, or future editing/conversion.

<edit>lingyi beat me to it</>

@kenny1999, why are you still a newbie? You've been on this site for a decade. Seriously?

Scott

[johns0]

Most vcds you have will be toast so you will be lucky to rip any thing off that with any program.

[lordsmurf]

DVD Decrypter to read DVD ISO.
Imgburn to read VCD, or ISOBuster to extract it.

[BobByte]

"DVD Decrypter to read DVD ISO.
Imgburn to read VCD, or ISOBuster to extract it."

Yup, Imgburn all the way!

[kenny1999]

"Just copying" is not the best method for VCDs, as the mpeg files (*.DAT as authored on disc) reside in CDXA Mode2Form2 disc sectors, so if you don't properly strip off the sector overhead metadata during or immediately after ripping, you will have garbage mixed in with every sector's-worth of data copied. Garbage which can corrupt playback, or future editing/conversion.

<edit>lingyi beat me to it</>

@kenny1999, why are you still a newbie? You've been on this site for a decade. Seriously?

Scott

I am not a frequently visiting or learning , doing this thing, seriously spekaing

[lingyi]

You asked essentially the same question over a year and a half ago, here: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/382300-How-to-rip-vcd-dvd-while-preserving-the-quality-as-original-as-possible#post2475319 and here: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/383095-what-s-the-best-software-tool-for-ripping-D...10#post2482115, were given answers: DVDFab, MakeMKV and Imgburn, but you abandoned both threads.