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How to copy DVD movie to computer hard drive and playback?

Want to enjoy your dvd movie just on your computer without making a hard copy of the original disc? Ideal DVD Copy is quite an easy and great tool for you to finish this job. It can copy an copy protected dvd to hard drive alone. To ensure Ideal DVD Copy work properly, please quit any other decrypters such as dvd43, dvdfabpasskey, any dvd first before launching Ideal DVD Copy, then follow the steps below.

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Step 1: Copy your DVD to hard disk using Ideal DVD Copy

If you want to watch the entire DVD movie, including the menus, trailers and special features, make sure you have enough disk space on the drive and then refer to Option A.

If you want to save disk space and just watch the main movie, please refer to Option B

If you want to copy specific episodes from an episodic DVD or TV Show DVD, please refer to Option C .

Option A: Copy the entire disc to hard drive
how to copy dvd to hard drive by Ideal DVD Copy

(1) Insert your DVD into your DVD drive.
(2) Choose "To hard disk..." from the destination drop-down list and a window will open. Select a folder where you want to store the copied DVD.
(3) Choose "The entire disc" from the copy mode drop-down list.
(4) Click the copy DVD9 to computer easily button to begin copying.

After the program has finished, you will have all of the DVD files, which are .ifo, .vob and .bup files stored in the folder that you designated. For example, it is "F:\TRUE_GRIT" as shown in illustration above.

Option B: Store the main movie of the DVD to hard drive
How to copy the main movie of a dvd movie to hard drive by Ideal DVD Copy

(1) Insert your DVD into your DVD drive.
(2) Choose "To hard disk..." from the destination drop-down list and a window will open. Select a folder where you want to store the copied DVD.
(3) Choose "Only the main movie" from the copy mode drop-down list and momentarily, a new window will open as shown below.

Choose subtitles and audios from DVD in main movie window


(4) Select the audio and subtitles that you want to keep and create your default audio and subtitle setting. Then click the "OK" button to return to the main window.
(5) Click the start to copy only main movie of a DVD, excluding trailer, extras button to begin copying.

After the program has finished, you will have all of the DVD files, which are .ifo, .vob and .bup files stored in the folder that you designated. For example, it is "F:\TRUE_GRIT" as shown in illustration above.

Option C: Copy Selected Episodes
How to store episodic DVD movie or TV Shows on hard drive
(1) Insert your DVD into your DVD drive.
(2) Choose "To hard disk..." from the destination drop-down list and a window will open. Select a folder on your hard drive to store the copied DVD.
(3) Choose "Selected episodes" from the copy mode drop-down list and momentarily, a new window will open as shown below.

select episodes, audio tracks and subtitles from an episodic DVD

(4) Select the episodes, audio tracks and subtitles that you want to keep. And then click the "OK" button to return to the main window.
(5) Click the start to copy selected episode of a DVD button to begin copying.

After the program has finished, you will have all of the DVD files, which are .ifo, .vob and .bup files stored in the folder that you designated. For example, it is "F:\TRUE_GRIT" as shown in illustration above.

*  Step 2: Playback the copied DVD from hard drive using DVD player software

Usually, with most playback software, you can right click on the VIDEO_TS folder and click on PLAY button to playback the copied dvd files. You can also open the VIDEO_TS.IFO file in the VIDEO_TS folder to play the copied DVD from your hard drive.

We have provided simple guides for some popular software players as shown below:
  • PowerDVD
1. Launch PowerDVD.
2. Click "Video" tab and locate the DVD files on your hard drive.
3. Double click the VIDEO_TS.ifo under the VIDEO_TS folder to play.
  • WinDVD
1. Launch WinDVD.
2. Right click on the play window and choose "Source" -> "DVD from folder".
3. Select the VIDEO_TS folder of the copied DVD (For example, it's "D:\Movies\GLADIATOR\VIDEO_TS\" in the illustration above). And then click OK when you have done.
  • Windows Media Player
1. Launch Windows Media Player.
2. Select Open from the File menu.
3. Choose "Any file (*.*)" from the Files of type drop-down list. And then select the "VIDEO_TS.IFO" file, in the VIDEO_TS folder of the copied DVD (For example, it's "D:\Movies\GLADIATOR\VIDEO_TS.IFO" in the illustration above). And then click OK when you have done.

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