Digitize Your DVD Movie Collection

Want to convert your movie collection to digital  files that you can play on your tv or computer?   This is how you do it. To rip all your dvd and blu-ray discs to digital  files you need three things - a dvd or blu-ray   reader, software to convert the movie files, and  advice to store and play those movies. There are   many ways to accomplish this but I'm about to  show you the best way. The first thing you're   going to need is a dvd reader so that you can read  the disk into your computer and do the conversion.   My system requires an external because I don't  have one built in and I went ahead and spent a   little bit extra money to get a combo blu-ray/dvd  reader and writer so if you want the flexibility   I recommend this one. It's a little bit more  expensive but it's highly rated and I'll put   a link in the description of the video. Just  make sure you get a blu-ray and a dvd combo   if you intend to copy blu-ray discs as well. The  second thing you're going to need is software to   do the file conversion from your dvd disks.  I recommend using Makemkv beta. MKV files   are fairly standard and this program will convert  your dvd disk into an MKV file that you can store   on your hard drive. You can see by the list of  options here that it reads dvd and blu-ray discs,   it reads blu-ray discs that are protected, and it  preserves all the video and audio tracks including   hd audio. This is great because you end up with  a complete representation of your original dvd   disc on a hard drive file and then you can  copy it to a variety of different devices.   So let's go ahead and download Makemkv. You can  see here you have versions for Windows or Mac   and there is even a Linux version as well.  I'm going to choose the Windows version.   It's going to download the  files for install. Open that. It asks which language you wanted to install. Hit Next. I'm going to accept  the terms of the license   and I'm going to leave these defaulted as  checked. Choose a location to do the install   and a folder name and that's it. It's  installed. Let's go ahead and run it   now. The first thing I'm going to recommend  is come up here to View and go to Preferences   and you can set a default directory where it  copies your files. So I've set up a D:\movies   folder. Under the Video tab you can set the  default destination. I choose Semiauto and   then I put in the same folder and what that does  is it automatically creates a subfolder for each   disk that I'm importing in. There's also an  option here to set the minimum length of the   title that you want to convert. So what happens  is a lot of dvds come with multiple tracks that   include your original movie as well as commentary  and other types of titles. When you set this to   1200 seconds, that's 20 minutes, I'm eliminating  all of those small files because all I really want   is the hour and a half or two hour long movie but  if you want to see all the different commentary   you can set this to a lower amount. You can leave  the defaults on the rest of these. Hit OK and now   you're ready to load a disc. When you insert a dvd  into your drive it begins loading the information. It determines the label of the dvd and  the protection that's set up on it.   Come up here to File and go to Open Disk  and select your reader from the menu there. This scans the file in  preparation for the conversion   and it comes up with a list of two different  titles, both the same size. This is probably   just a copy so I'm going to turn that one off.  So I have one file now selected to convert.   Click this button to make the MKV file.  It's going to create a folder just for that   and it begins the conversion. Now this process can  take a number of minutes depending on the size of   the file that you're trying to convert. After it  calculates for a few seconds it'll come up with an   elapsed time and a projected time for completion  and since this is a blu-ray disc with a very large   file it's going to take quite a while to complete.  This is probably one of the longer ones. I've seen   them anywhere from about 15 minutes to 25 minutes  typically and for blu-ray maybe 30 or 40 minutes   so let's skip ahead and as you can see it took  about 30 minutes to complete that conversion.   Hit OK and now we can take a look at our  folder and there's our converted file and   you can right-click on this and Cast it to  a device or Open it. It'll play that file. The final item you're going to need is storage  for these very large video files that you've   converted. My current collection is about 200  videos and it takes up 1.3TB so I purchased   this external seagate backup drive. It holds 2TB  and uses a USB connection so I can plug it into   the various devices and run my video files. A USB  connection works very well if you have a tv with a   USB port on it or something like a Roku Ultra that  has a USB port. You can plug the hard drive in   and play your videos directly. USB is universal  to a lot of different devices and the MKV files   can be read easily on many of those devices as  well. The reason I recommend a 2TB external hard   drive and not something larger is because of  the limitations of many devices. For example,   the Roku Ultra will only allow up to 2TB for an  external hard drive plugged into the USB port.   Anything larger and it won't read the drive  at all. You can't even partition a larger hard   drive into 2TB blocks. It won't read any of those.  Now I will warn you that some USB ports on TVs or   Roku Ultra don't provide enough power to handle  an external hard drive and you may need an inline   power booster like this USB hub. So I ordered  one of these and added it to my system as well.   I've also found that this USB 2.0 extension cable  is a must-have. It often works without the need   for a USB powered hub. The reason why is because  it forces the communication between your hard   drive and your device to run at 2.0 speeds which  sometimes makes the two talk better together.   I found this to be true of the Roku Ultra. It's  inexpensive and it's probably something you should   keep on hand in case you need it. I'll provide  links to all of these devices in the description   below the video. And that covers everything you  need to digitize your dvd movie collection. Stay   tuned for an upcoming video where I discuss how  this works with a Roku Ultra. Thanks for watching.   Hey, if you want to see more videos like this one  please subscribe and if you've enjoyed this video   be sure to click the thumbs-up and leave a  comment. I really do appreciate your support!

Channel: Sele Training

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Length: 7min 4sec (424 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 09 2020