Options for saving movies to hard drive legally?

I have a U30JC-B1 as well as a T200TA on order to arrive next week. I want to know how I would go about loading movies onto my hard drive. I have a lot of movies on their original disc, have purchased several that have been downloaded from Google Play, iTunes, etc. What are my options to get these on my HDD or SSD? I tried a search which didn't work out too well. Thanks for your help.

 

What format are you going to be using for playback that would help other figure out what you need for setup. Also movies on DVD/BD will require software to that bypass those protections and not sure we can help you on that if it violates this forum rules so what you do here will be up to you as to those from GPlay or iTunes those could be have DRM and moving those might not work if they aren't play with the relevant program Gplay or iTunes.

 

Thanks for the reply. Actually I don't really know enough to adequately answer your questions. I use Cyberlink PowerDVD for playback of my BR and DVD movies. Basically, I have a lot of movies and would like to load some onto my hard drive so that I don't have to always have the movie discs with me, especially when travelling. I am not at all interested in doing anything illegal and frankly don't know if what I am asking is even possible. I am not sure what format is used now during playback. Hopefully there is a way to legally accomplish putting the movies on hard drive as the movies are bought and paid for.

 

For Blu-Ray, I use MakeMKV to go from Blu-Ray to the MKV format that various software such as VLC can play. It's not 100%, since you don't get the menus and, while you can get multiple audio tracks and switch between them, when you start it up it will be in whatever the default language is (which you can then change within VLC or wherever else). And of course the amount of space it takes adds up fairly quickly. But overall, it's the least-bag-of-hurt option I've found for Blu-Ray playback on XP, including trials of paid software, and the only free one I've found for moving it to a hard drive regardless of operating system (Blu-Ray to HDD is free; I don't think everything else is). It should work for DVDs as well, although I haven't tried it for that. It's also not super-complicated to use. Not quite one button, but not esoteric command-line either.

Legal questions may vary depending on your country of residence. I am neither a lawyer nor knowledgeable about your country of residence, nor do I particularly care which country you reside in, so you'll have to figure that out yourself.

 

Make an ISO image of the disc and use a virtual drive to mount it?


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In the US, breaking or cracking digital rights management is not illegal if you are creating backup copies on your hard drive for your own personal use. So you can download and run any number of programs that do that legally. However, it is illegal to make copies and sell or distribute them to others, or to offer them for exhibition to large groups in a theater setting, without obtaining distribution rights.

Basically, what you want to do is legal, and using any software to facilitate that is also legal (even if the big media companies don't want you to do it).

And regarding programs to use, I have found DVD Fab to be useful. It can copy and convert the entire disc (including menus), or just the movie. You can also compress the movie in different formats to save space, so a movie that takes up 9GB on disc may only take 3GB on your hard drive.

 

Cut and paste your My videos folder library to HDD and put movies there. Converted or isos.