Backup of DVD
 

We are looking at backing up some of our Holiday Videos that we had converted onto a DVD in the past.

We have been using Make MKV but now its asking us to register and will cost almost £43.

Im wondering if theres any cheaper or free alternatives around the place?

Thanks.

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uninstall it clean up the registry and see if it will give it ya free again

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How do u clean up the registry?

I thought Registry cleaners were to be avoided?

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never had an issue myself. I make a backup first then run the one in CCleaner

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you could do a search and delete any keys relative to the software itself

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I use a MacOS application called Handbrake. If that’s available for Windows it should do what you want, for free.

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it is :)

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If you don't need fancy menus etc you could just copy the .VOB files (if it's a standard DVD) and rename them to reflect the content then play the backup as a data disc if you've backed up to another disc. If you want to reauthor them you could use DVDshrink (it's a very old program but should still be knocking around and is very good, it doesn't convert the files in any way so there's no quality loss but will give you thumbnails in the menu etc).

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https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1053

Use the Beta key - it refreshes every 3 months or so iirc. it keeps it free and is how you are actually avised to use it. I'm not sure if the creator is doing it this way to get around some licensing thing, but whatever - it works just fine, no limitations.

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Thanks, will keep an eye on it.

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I've been using it for a quite some time, it works well.

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Plenty of software around that will let you save the DVD as an ISO file.


Then you can just open the ISO file in VLC player and it will open up just like a normal DVD with menus and everything included.


VLC Player is a free Media Player that plays almost everything.

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Thanks Paul.