what is a gook media program.. copy dvd's, play dvd's... especially play, i have some piece of crap

[sam sarrha]

program off of Cnet.com

i'd like to copy them too, and DVD for back-up storage, .

thanks

wife's computer i built
Raidmax Aura Case
XP Home Premium 32bit
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
Intel e7400 Core2 Duo CPU
OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2 1060 4Gb
Visiontek ATI Radeon HD 3870 512Mb FOC
Western Digital 600Gb HD
550 Watt PSU


my computer
ANTEC 900 Case.
ASUS Rampage Formula X48.
Intel e8500.
VISTA 64bit Home Premium + XP 32bit Home Premium,
Silent Knight2 CPU cooler.
8 GB OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2 1066.
3x WD CAVIAR SE-16 500GB.
VisionTec Radeon HD 3870 x2 1Gb.
Samsung 22" Wide Screen.
Cosair 750 watt PSU.
OPTI UPS Battery Back Up.
MX Revolution mouse/green IceMat pad

[canetoad]

1. Sam, that unfortunate typo in your subject

made me laugh.

I'd recommend VLC player. Not only does it play most media files, it can open and play bought (with menus) DVDs.
www.videolan.org/vlc/

For backing up DVDs - DVDShrink. You can convert the DVD into an ISO file ready to burn to another DVD. www.dvdshrink.org/

Or you could rip the content off DVDs with WinX Free DVD Ripper, which makes it easy to save to AVI, MPEG etc to store on a hard drive. http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-ripper/

All freeware of course.

[Dead_Parrot]

2. You can use VLC to rip DVDs too...

...it's a little fiddly to start with, but gives you all sorts of options over output (like optimising the output file for an iPod). There's a how-to here: http://lifehacker.com/397573/master-your-digital-media-with-vlc/

[canetoad]

4. Hey, there's some good information there

Thanks for posting that, Dead_Parrot.

[lpbk2713]

3. Concur with VLC.

I've been using it as my default music and video player for quite some time and it does all I expect of it.
I haven't tried installing it on the new Win7 laptop I bought Sunday but I'll find out how it works soon.


:thumbsup: :hi: :thumbsup:

[madokie]

5. Here's a good burner that is small and free

http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

I think it covers most everything out there