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  • 05-11-2016 5:32pm
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    stressed70
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    Total novice to all this. I have loads of dvd+r/-r which I want to copy to hard drive.
    What would be the easiest way to do this?
    Any free software? Or I've seen something called video grabber on eBay, would something like that work?


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    mordeith
    Registered Users Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    stressed70 wrote: »
    Total novice to all this. I have loads of dvd+r/-r which I want to copy to hard drive.
    What would be the easiest way to do this?
    Any free software? Or I've seen something called video grabber on eBay, would something like that work?

    It's movie files on the DVDs I take it?


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    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Handbrake will do this and it's free. May not work for copy protected discs though. You can see here for a guide

    Nick

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    stressed70
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    not movies, it's just everything & anything really all recorded from tv over the years


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    mordeith
    Registered Users Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    stressed70 wrote: »
    not movies, it's just everything & anything really all recorded from tv over the years

    Depending on the file types you may be able to just copy all the stuff off the discs onto your hard drive.


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    degsie
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    stressed70 wrote: »
    not movies, it's just everything & anything really all recorded from tv over the years

    From a command terminal, something like...

    cp -R /dev/dvd/media/* ~/mydir/


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    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    ToDo Backup Free can do this. I'm assuming you are using windows

    Nick

    My Beer Glass collection site 🍺

    My Irish Callcards site



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