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In this Instructable I will be demonstrating how to backup your personally owned DVDs to a format playable on your computer. These file can also be bu...
Note. There are many techniques that will accomplish this. Most will require 2 to more packages. This one only requires the one program that will run ...
Open your DVD drive and insert the DVD. On most computers (unless you've disabled it) a DVD will automatically open your DVD Player. Just quit out of...
Launch MediaFork (or HandBrake if the beta scared you). The program will automatically recognize your DVD and list it as "Detected volume." Just click...
As I said in the previous step, MediaFork will automatically select what it thinks is the Feature movie. If the DVD contains more than one movie, or y...
If you're like me, the boot drive is pretty much filled up with Applications and the OS. I keep all of my movies on a set of external drives. If you...
If you're extracting for use with iTunes, iPod or Apple TV, leave the settings at MP4. MP4 is also a very good choice for re-burning to DVD. If you've...
Unless you're converting more than one DVD at a time, you have no need for a Queue. Make sure that the "Enable queue" checkbox is unchecked.
Click the "Rip" button and wait. Go have a coffee... Take the wife shopping... Watch a different DVD. This is gonna take awhile... About 3 hours for t...
Importing into iTunes is very straightforward. Just drag the movie to the iTunes icon. If you've got one of those other programs, I leave it as an e...
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• Pentium 4 2.4Ghz or Althon XP 2500+
• 512MB Ram
• 15MB for application. (several GB for video files)
• Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP1
• Microsoft .Net Framework 2
• Microsoft Windows Installer 3.0
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0