Copying DVD to computer

Computernaut · August 29, 2019

So my dad has this old camcorder that recorded to those mini DVDs. As I'm the "tech person" in the house he asked me if I could put them on his computer. I tried using VLC and it almost worked.

I started out following this guide. Doing exactly as shown it didn't work and would give me an error, but if if chose the other H264 + MP3 profile (called ".ts"), it worked in that it gave me a playable video; however, there were still two problems: 1, I hadn't checked the "Deinterlace" option so the video looked terrible. 2, it gave me a 4.5+ hour video that was just the same thing over and over again (it was the right thing, but still). I tried again with "Deinterlace" enabled (and the ".ts" profile) and got the same error as before: "Playback failure: DVDRead could not read -1/4 blocks at 0x49a84"

Catsrules · August 29, 2019

21 minutes ago, Computernaut said:

So my dad has this old camcorder that recorded to those mini DVDs. As I'm the "tech person" in the house he asked me if I could put them on his computer. I tried using VLC and it almost worked.

I started out following this guide. Doing exactly as shown it didn't work and would give me an error, but if if chose the other H264 + MP3 profile (called ".ts"), it worked in that it gave me a playable video; however, there were still two problems: 1, I hadn't checked the "Deinterlace" option so the video looked terrible. 2, it gave me a 4.5+ hour video that was just the same thing over and over again (it was the right thing, but still). I tried again with "Deinterlace" enabled (and the ".ts" profile) and got the same error as before: "Playback failure: DVDRead could not read -1/4 blocks at 0x49a84"

I would use Handbreak and using that to convert it to an mp4 file.

Computernaut · August 30, 2019

On 8/28/2019 at 8:53 PM, Catsrules said:

I would use Handbreak and using that to convert it to an mp4 file.

It worked; thanks!

I wish I didn't have to encode each video individually, though.

Catsrules · August 31, 2019

7 hours ago, Computernaut said:

It worked; thanks!

I wish I didn't have to encode each video individually, though.

Handbreak does have an add all to Queue button, just click the little arrow next to the add to queue button. You do need to setup the auto file naming before it will let you add add to the queue. I think that is in the preference under the tools menu at the top.

If your looking to join all of the files into one large file, I don't think handbreak will do that. I know FormatFactory can do that, but a word of warring last I checked Format Factory was embedded with adware