Help me with DVD and VHS

[knight3131]

hello everyone i new to this, I have dozens of DVD movies and Vhs i would like to have these movies in my laptop and pc, I don't have a Cd burner but i have a DVD drive, I would like to know how can put these movies into my laptop and pc without using the DVD Cd, i have tried to copy it like one do with music cd using the windows media player but i can't seem to be able to do it with DVD can anyone help me? I also would like to know how i can do the same thing with VHS? I would apprecaite it thank you for helping me.


P.S. If i need a program to do this tell me the name and where i can get it from thank you.[/b]

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For DVD you need a DVD rom. For VHS you need a capture card or
a digital firewire capable video camera and a firewire card.

As you have a DVD rom, you can rip and copy the movie to
your hard drive and play it but each movie will take
3 to 6 Gigabytes of hard drive space. You could swap
between movies (rip & play one at a time then delete)
or transcode the movie to fit in a smaller size.

Really neither of the above options is useful.
You are going to have to buy either a cd burner
or a dvd burner, and for your VHS movies you
are going to need a capture card.

To copy a DVD try Smartripper or DVDecrypt (see tools section at left hand side) to put a DVD on your laptop and to play it back you need a mpeg-2 software decoder OR a DVD software player like PowerDVD.