uploading dvd content to main frame computer

blossom30

Hi I am not technically minded so please be gentle with me. I got an old family video transferred to dvd and would like to upload it onto my main frame computer. I have an old nero 6 programme and cant figure out how to do it. It lets me copy onto another disc but I cant see where to just copy onto computer. I have had a lot of help from this board before and I would really appreciate advice with this. Thanks shrewdalx

santer_2

If you load the disc, click start, click computer, right click the drive with the disc, click open.

At the top, click edit, click select all, click edit, click copy to folder, choose where you want to save it to, then click make new folder and name it as you wish, click copy

That's one way

exprog

shrewdal wrote: »

my main frame computer

You absolutely sure about that?

Coveredinbees!!!!

Does it look like this?

googler

What kind of 'mainframe' do you have?

Chimpofdoom

Or like this?! *WANTS* think of all the storage and steaming possibilities.. unfortunately.. i'm struggling for space as it is and I dont think the OH would approve of this.. maybe if I win the lottery...

John_Gray

Chimpofdoom wrote: »

I don't think the OH would approve of this

I could see why she might object, unless there is a disclaimer: "Female not included"...!

esuhl

shrewdal wrote: »

Hi I am not technically minded so please be gentle with me. I got an old family video transferred to dvd and would like to upload it onto my main frame computer. I have an old nero 6 programme and cant figure out how to do it. It lets me copy onto another disc but I cant see where to just copy onto computer. I have had a lot of help from this board before and I would really appreciate advice with this. Thanks shrewdalx

DVDs will either contain computer files (like an old floppy disk) or video that is intended to be played on a DVD player connected to a TV. If you can put the DVD into a normal DVD player (not computer) and see video, you will need to "rip" the video to convert it to a computer file.

If the DVD contains files (maybe they have the file extension .mp4 or .flv or .avi or .divx or .mpeg or .mpeg4), then you can just copy them in Windows Explorer.

Otherwise, you will need to use some free DVD ripping software... DVD Decryptor (see previous link) should do the trick. Alternatively, in Nero 6, you should be able to select "Image Recorder" (or something like that) as the destination in order to rip the video to a .nrg file. I think you can use Daemon Tools to mount the image. Be aware that .nrg is a proprietarty Nero format - you might to use something other than Nero to rip the DVD so you don't need to install special software (like Daemon Tools).

By the way, "upload" means to transmit from a device across a network (so you don't "upload" DVD content to your computer), and "mainframes" are large centralised computers that would be connected to a number of "dumb terminals" - they were popular before personal computers (PCs) and could be the size of a room (or even a house!). The chances are that you have a microcomputer rather than a mainframe...

blossom30

Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

Does it look like this?LOL This is the size of it....yeh right

Jeff_Bridges_hair

You want to be careful about those mainframe computers. I remember that film Wargames and i bet you couldnt get your mainframe to lose a game of tic-tac-toe.

Be careful.

custardy

what do you want to do with the video?
keep a copy or play it on the PC,other types of players,over the network?