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Southampton Shrimper

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I have still as yet never uploaded anything on to YouTube, but have been thinking for years I should get some of my old VHS footage onto there. Having put some old SUFC footage onto a DVD this morning, it has reminded me again that maybe I should give it a try.

Having looked into it, it appears I need a DVD Ripper to get the video from the DVD onto my hard drive in order to then be able to upload it to YouTube. The top two entries from a Google search for "DVD Ripper" are Magic DVD Ripper, which currently costs £34.97 and WinX DVD Ripper which is free.

So, my question to techies out there is: is my choice as obvious as it seems - do I go for the free version? Is it any good? Do you have any others that you recommend? What do you use?

Once I've downloaded a ripper, I presume it's a straightforward process from there to get the video on to the hard drive and then on to You Tube? I will have a question about what is the best format to save it to for getting it onto YouTube, but maybe I need to take this one thing at a time :unsure:

Any help much appreciated!
 
All this is done with free tools, let me get the comotion that is dinnertime out the way & I'll get you all you need later..:thumbsup:
 
OK I'm going to assume that when you converted your VHS to DVD, that software created an industry standard file structure, VOB, BUP & IFO files. You can find this out by putting your disc into your PC drive & selected explore from the right click menu. There should be two folders, Video_TS & Audio_TS, Audio will be empty.

If you can see those filetypes then were in business..:smile:

Clicky here for lot's of guides on this, but I would go with this one

Converting to MP4 would be favourite for uploading to Youtube & some of these all-in-one programs don't really cut it when you want to take on a task like this.

Reading that guide it may seem a little daunting but it really is quite easy. Persevere with your first clip & after that they will all be a breeze.

Give me a shout if you get stuck & I'll try & help..:thumbsup:
 
Thanks for that, Pitsea. There are two folders on the DVD, one called VIDEO_RM and one called VIDEO_TS. They both have stuff in them.

Am I still good to go??
 
Thanks for that, Pitsea. There are two folders on the DVD, one called VIDEO_RM and one called VIDEO_TS. They both have stuff in them.

Am I still good to go??

Not sure what Video_RM is, probably unique to the software you used Im guessing, but if the Video_TS folder contains what I said, then you should be..:smile:

A good test would be to play back one of the VOB's using VLC Player, if it plays in that then your in business..:thumbsup:
 
Got it to play on the VLC Player - eventually!! - so it looks like I can try the next step (the daunting-looking one!). I shall have a lie down, have a day out in Bradford and then maybe try the next bit on Saturday!

Thanks :thumbsup:
 
I usually do the following, very simple process...

Rip the DVD with MakeMKV (currently free while in beta, fantastic bit of software) - www.makemkv.com
Encode the resulting file into whatever format/bit rate needed using Handbrake - http://handbrake.fr/
 
Right, I downloaded DVD Shrink and WinFF, tried opening the DVD in DVD Shrink, but it wouldn't let me, some kind of error. So, I downloaded DVDFab Encrypter and this time successfully saved the DVD to my hard drive. However, it seems I have DVDFab only on a 30-day trial - no way of having a free version, is there?

Then went back to DVD Shrink and I was able to open the video in there, but the thing is each title appears to be only a few seconds long, all of them together are about a minute and a half, I could play each title in DVD Shrink and they are only tiny excerpts of what I have put onto the disc.

Now, it could be a problem with the disc - I did notice just as I had finished recording from VHS it started saying that every track was only one second long, when it had been giving the actual times before, so maybe I pressed something that caused an error on the disc and should try with another disc?

Otherwise, I don't have a clue what to do next!

:unsure:
 
SS, I have a whole host of old SUFC videos which i have wanted to to convert to DVD for ages. You don't fancy doing them do you? I dont mind paying and you can make a copy for yourself as well?
SS, if you like you can make a copy for me too, if that helps sweeten the deal!
 
Sorry, guys, I've been away.

Unfortunately, I also have "a whole host" of videos that could do with transferring, as well as some of my dad's that he'd like me to do, add to that I have very little free time to do it, so I can't really take any more on.

I'm sorry.
 
SS, I have a whole host of old SUFC videos which i have wanted to to convert to DVD for ages. You don't fancy doing them do you? I dont mind paying and you can make a copy for yourself as well?[/QUOTE
I might be able to transfer them for ou
 
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