DVD Movie Backup Freeware: Copy Movie DVD to Computer

DVDSmith Movie Backup is software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.

DVDSmith Movie Backup can make perfect-quality backup copies of all your DVD movies using your own computer hard disk. It can keep the same sound & video quality when you backup your DVD movies with all the special features, menus, subtitles, and languages included. Within a few clicks of your mouse, your favorite DVD has been cloned and will play on your computer just like the original.

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1. Work space of DVDSmith Movie Backup

There are mainly 5 parts of the program interface:

1) Backup Mode: Full Disc and Main Movie;

2) Path configuration: Source Disc and Output Folder;

3) Backup process indicators: Current and Total;

4) Operation button: Start Backup / Stop Backup;

5) Size indicators: Source Disc Size and Output Local Disc Free Size.

2. How to use DVDSmith Movie Backup to backup protected or unprotected DVDs

The operation of DVDSmith Movie Backup is very simple. After only several steps, you can backup protected or unprotected DVDs to the hard disk.

2.1 Insert a DVD in your DVD drive

The logo of your DVD drive will be changed into a disc shape with disc name as below:

(Note: this disc named 0223 is for illustration only, since that the disc name will be loaded automatically according to your disc.)

2.2 Choose backup mode

In the main work space, you can see two backup modes:

: this will backup all contents from the DVD, including main movie, bonus features, and maybe some other extra video clips.

: this will only backup the main movie from the DVD, excluding bonus features or other extra video clips.

(Note: see the difference between these two modes)

2.3 Select source disk location

Please select this drive in Source Disc drag-down option:

2.4 Select output folder path

Remember to choose a place where there's enough space to put the backup files.

On the bottom of the main window, you can check the disc capacity and the free space of the output folder:

If the Free Space of Hard Disk is smaller than the DVD Size, you should press this button to change another place, since that the free space is smaller than the DVD size.

Otherwise, this prompt will appear:

2.5 Start backup

After both source disc and output folder options are ok, press this button to start the process:

If you decide to backup later or just cancel it, press this button:

2.6 Check the Output Folder

Once the backup process is finished, you can explore them on the hard disk:

(Note: above file illustration is in Full Disc mode. If using Main Movie mode, there will be different.)

3. How to use free player DVD Shrink to play backup folder

At first, download and install freeware DVD Shrink from this link. And its playback operation is as below.

Launch DVD Shrink, you can see the Open Files button on upper left:

Click this button then select the Output Folder:

(Note: you should select the correct path, above folder D:\DVD\0223 is for illustration only.)

Then it will import this folder, and show the contents:

From the DVD Shrink window, you can find the size of this backup folder (4,463MB), and its contents, such as Menus, Main Movie, Extras, and Unreferenced Material (upper left), and a player window (bottom left). For more details of backup files, you can refer to the right panel, -- Video/Audio/Subpicture contents and their sizes.

(Note: if using Main Movie, there will be different.)

Now, to play this bakup folder, please click this button on the player window. If you want to watch in full screen, just double click on the player window.

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4. Difference between Full Disc and Main Movie

In the main window of DVDSmith Movie Backup, there're two modes you can select:

and

With Full Disc mode, it's able to backup all contents from the DVD, including main movie, bonus features, and perhaps other extra video clips.

If using Main Movie mode, this program will check and backup the DVD automatically by itself. Normally, the main movie consists of files with names like "VTS_01_xxx", "VTS_01_xxx.xx", etc, excluding bonus features or other kinds of video clips with names of "VIDEO_TS", "VIDEO_TS.BUP", "VIDEO_TS.IFO", etc.

Check below output folder illustrations for Full Disc (L) and Main Movie (R):