User Guide of DVD to Hard Drive

Many people who have collections of DVD movies usually need to put them on hard drive in order to preserve safely, transfer to Portable devices, or combine into PowerPoint presentations. But the problem is that the numerous online software reviews and tricks usually let them complicate things by using several tools at a time. This article will introduce a one-stop solution to fix complicated process of DVD to Hard Drive by working through 3 sections:

1. Overview of DVD to Hard Drive Converter
2. Rip DVD to Hard Drive
3. Explanations of DVD Files

Sec 1. Explore into iSkysoft DVD to Hard Drive Converter

As one of the multimedia conversion tools which are dedicated to adding color to the digital life in pocket, the iSkysoft DVD to Hard Drive Converter has significantly reduced the difficulties in video transfer process and simplified it to a few clicks. It not only brings users the experience that has never been so easy to rip DVD to popular video formats, but offers other valuable features:

• Supports to all Popular Formats: Capable of converting standard videos like AVI, WMV, MP4, MKV, 3GP, FLV and HD Video including MKV, MOD HD AVI and MTS, etc.
• Video Editing: Fulfills basic requirements on editing video (Splitting, merging and adding watermark) without having to use a third-party video editor.
• Output Presets for Multimedia Devices: Includes iPod, iPad, iPhone/iPhone 3G/iPhone 3G S/ iPhone 4, PSP, Motorola (Droid, Cliq), Google nexus one and so on.
  

Sec 2. Rip DVD to Hard Drive

Step 1: Load Video and Select Output Presets

Download iSkysoft DVD Ripper Windows by clicking here and then install it properly on your computer.

When you have launched it, simply click “Load DVD” on top-left to import your DVD movie (Under the Video_TS folder in your DVD disc). Wait for the program to complete loading video and then you will find the option for output available in “Profile” field on the bottom, click down-arrow to expand the profile list followed by selecting “Common Video” – “*.wmv”.

After that, click “Browse…” button to indicate an output directory in the “Output” filed so that program will be ready to convert your files.

Step 2: Edit video effects

As a program which combines the simplicity and professional quality, the iSkysoft DVD Ripper Windows also provides settings for high-level users to edit video before publishing it. In order to do that, select the title of video which you want to edit in the central panel, click “Edit”, and then you will be redirected to the dialog of “Video Edit”. From here you will receive three options for fulfilling your requirements on decorating the video: Crop, Effect, Watermark and Subtitle.

Note: For many users who want to eliminate the black bars in movies, the “Crop” option can remove them easily. Make sure to compare the origin view with that after modification before you confirm all the changes.

Step 3: Start Conversion

When you have configured all settings correctly, click “Start” on bottom-right to launch the DVD to Hard Drive conversion. Within the newly released feature of optimization for multi-core processors, this DVD to Hard Drive converter is able to generate video outputs with crisp visual quality and perfect preservation of origin DVD in much shorter time than before.

Sec 3. What is VOB?

VOB
With the formal definition of DVD Video Object, VOB is normally the core files that could be found on DVD discs and contains the actual movie date including video, audio and scene navigation mixed into a stream form. VOB files could be played on Hardware DVD Players or PCs which have DVD Player software installed, but the restrictions on editing the files and playing them with portable players have always been a hassle for users.

IFO
Working as the DVD navigation in a disc, IFO (Abbreviation of InFOrmation) is a type of DVD-Video file which stores the navigation info of chapters, subtitles and audio tracks. Generally, the IFO files can allow users to navigate through scenes and play the movie correctly.

BUP
BUP stands for Back UP which is the backup of the IFO file on a DVD. It usually contains the info about organizations of chapters, subtitles and menus on the disc. BUP is usually used when the IFO has corrupted and become unreadable.