DVD Burner.

[El Jarretto]

I just got this free DVD and I want to know how I can burn it onto the computer and then e-mail it to my friends. Any help?

[offroadin'101]

Well....
For one, you don't burn onto the computer. You RIP it onto the computer. It's really simple. If you have Windows Media Player then you can just select the rip tab and save it to your hard drive (C: drive) and add it as an attatchment in the e-mail. That's the easiest way.

[mike5721947]

wow, cool. i never knew that the rip button on win media could do dvd's!

[El Jarretto]

wow, cool. i never knew that the rip button on win media could do dvd's!It doesn't for me...

[offroadin'101]

Hmm...

You should be able to rip the DVD right to your computer and then burn it. If the DVD is encrypted you're going to have to get some decrypting software for the CSS (content scrambling system). Unfortunatly, its not free. The best program for this is called #1 DVD Ripper and it decodes it and rips it into a more compressed, single file on your hard drive, making life easier for you. Its $35 though.

[bubba069]

umm.. you cant "email" a dvd, a ripped dvd is 4.5 gig, straight up 1:1 copy it 10 gig

to rip a dvd you need.

1. a DVD burner
2. a copy of either DVD shrink or DVD decriptor (they are free, google it)
3. a nice big hard drive (for storing you ripped dvd's)
4. a movie to rip.
5. 45 min to 1hr30min depending on your system specs.

Now if you want to convert a DVD to AVI you need to read up on DiVx, but even then its going to be a 600+mb file. still not going to email it to any one.

[offroadin'101]

The only thing limiting you from e-mailing it is that the file is too big. And I thought DiVx was around $30.