Hi Tony,
Great that you have found a quick way for your friend to view the video(s) – converting to other formats always takes time and effort! With regard to viewing them your end – I can confirm that VLC will do this – I remembered that I have a couple of ripped DVDs lurking on my computer, so I gave it a go. First I located the ripped DVDs One, a ripped commercial DVD, was a folder which contained two sub-folders: AUDIO_TS & VIDEO_TS One, a TV program that a friend had put onto DVD which I then ripped, was a folder which just contained one sub-folder: VIDEO_TS – so this sounds like what is on your thumbdrive. Watching them was VERY simple: Open VLC >From the top menu, go to File/Open File - the navigation window opens Navigate to the VIDEO_TS folder on your thumbdrive (or on your computer is you have copied it over) Select the VIDEO_TS folder (don’t go down into the individual files) and click “open” The viewing window opens. For the commercial DVD this showed the DVD top menu (as on a DVD player) where you could select from various chapters to view – all played as expected. For the other DVD, which was a TV program that a friend had put onto DVD, a generic menu showed with several blank buttons/title bars and one labelled title bar (this would be down to whatever my friend had used to create the original DVD before I ripped it) – select this title and hit play and the clip played as expected. As I say, VLC is free and I found it quick & easy to download/install – so I would expect this could allow you to view the video very quickly. HTH Cheers Neil From: <wamug.org.au-wamug-boun...@lists.wamug.org.au> on behalf of "Anthony (Tony) Francis" <antne...@mac.com> Reply-To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au> Date: Thursday, 14 July 2022 at 08:34 To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au> Subject: Re: [WAMUG] Hi all. Good Morning Stephen Thank you for your kind offer and from the group the suggestions and advice. As I have quite a few Video’s on discs to transfer I think I’ll be fine from here, thank you, I’ll let you know which way I choose to go. I am going to purchase a Disc Reader from Daniel so that I can upload the Discs straight to the Computer, another problem solved. The person to whom I was sending the Video's to asked me to upload the Video’s to MEGAsync which I did and he was able to open the Video’s without a problem, it didn’t help me on my end to open the Video’s on my Computer, so again, thank you. Take career, stay safe Kind Regards Tony Boddington On 14 Jul 2022, at 04:03, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote: I am pleased that you have some options to try Tony. But if they don’t work out, I could try on my Mac if you are in Perth any time. I have an external optical drive and I have used Roxio Toast to convert these files to MOV or MP4 files. This was for home videos that I have on DVD’s, so sounds like the same scenario. Or I noticed Roxio recently had Toast Titanium at half price. On 13 Jul 2022, at 8:36 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis <antne...@mac.com> wrote: Hi Stephen The Video disc works fine on the DVD I needed to transfer the Video on to a Memory stick to allow me to forward it, it was when the Video wouldn’t work on my main computer that I asked the group for a resolution. I now have a couple of avenues to try, thank you to the members that have responded. The Video is from a home video Camera which I had transferred to a disc. Kind Regards Tony Boddington On 13 Jul 2022, at 3:37 pm, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote: Hi again Tony. Those files look like the ones you find on a commercial DVD. Try playing it in a DVD player. On 13 Jul 2022, at 1:47 pm, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote: Another program that was very popular for ripping and transcoding (converting) DVDs was Handbrake: https://handbrake.fr/ So that could be another option. Hi Tony, If you are wanting to forward the video to someone else, it may be best to convert it to something like MP4 first. I believe that VLC should also be able to do that, though it is not something I have tried. You can find pretty comprehensive documentation on VLC here https://docs.videolan.me/vlc-user/3.0/en/index.html So have a read through that. Cheers Neil -----Original Message----- From: <wamug.org.au-wamug-boun...@lists.wamug.org.au> on behalf of "Anthony (Tony) Francis" <antne...@mac.com> Reply-To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au> Date: Wednesday, 13 July 2022 at 13:28 To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au> Subject: Re: [WAMUG] Hi all. Thank you Neil I’ll give it a go, the Video’s that I want to open and forward are of sentimental value to my best friend that recently lost his Wife, so I’m thankful for any help and advice. Kind Regards Tony Boddington On 13 Jul 2022, at 13:13, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote: Hi Tony, I often find with various downloaded videos that OSX (Quicktime) won't play them directly. Whilst, if you want Quicktime compatibility, there are various programs that will convert from the original format to MP4 (good for Quicktime), I find that the free app VLC will play most formats without conversion. VLC is a well-regarded and well-used app which runs on all platforms (OSX, windows, IOS, etc). You can find here: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ I have used it, through a few versions, for several years and have always been happy with it. HTH Cheers Neil -----Original Message----- From: <wamug.org.au-wamug-boun...@lists.wamug.org.au> on behalf of "Anthony (Tony) Francis" <antne...@mac.com> Reply-To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au> Date: Wednesday, 13 July 2022 at 12:00 To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au> Subject: Re: [WAMUG] Hi all. Good Morning Thank you for the continued information regarding the Disc Drive, as I won’t be going to either Mandurah or Perth for a week or two I tried something else for now, I used an old Mac, loaded the Video from the Disc to a Memory Stick, put the memory stick into my current Mac 2020 running MacOs Monterey. I was unable to play the Video on my current Mac as the file? wasn’t recognised,I was asked to choose an application to play the Video, that’s where I came unstuck, I couldn’t find an App that would play the Video, so my question is, what App will recognise and play the older Video’s, I have plenty of Home Movies that I would love to be able to share amongst friends and family. 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