If you have a look at the structure (in terms of files and folders) of a DVD-video disk put in the optical drive of your PC, you'll find 2 folders: AUDIOTS and VIDEOTS. The AUDIOTS folder is empty (it is used for DVD-audio disks) while the VIDEOTS folder contains files:. Videots.bup. Videots.ifo. Videots.vob.
The AUDIO_TS folder is usually empty but the VIDEO_TS folder must contain all you DVD files. So copy all your DVD files into a folder and call it VIDEO_TS. Create a new folder called DVD or something and put the VIDEO_TS folder into it. Audio and Video TS folders are the main contents on a DVD. All the DVD's information is located within these folders, including the VOB, BUP and IFO files. Since you already have the Audio and Video TS folders, you have what is called a pre-authored DVD, meaning your files are ready to be burnt.
Vts010.bup. Vts010.ifo. Vts010.vob.
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Vts011.vob. Vts020.bup. Vts020.ifo.
Vts020.vob. Vts021.vob. Vts022.vob. The bup files are used to save ifo files (bup for backup).
The ifo files contain information about your film and its structure (Chapters, Languages, Subtitles.). At last, the vob files contain the actual video and audio data. The main video - your film - is in the files named Vtsxx1.vob, Vtsxx2.vob. That are about 1 Giga in size. If you want to copy one of these files on your hard drive disk (HDD), using a simple drag-and-drop, you'll have the vob file on your disk, with the correct size, but if you try to play it with your favourite multimedia player, the picture is very bad: the Macrovision technology scrambles the video (sound is not affected).
To get the original video, it is necessary to rip it from the DVD disk. There is a lot of software allowing this kind of operations, they are called DVD ripper. What you will need to rip a DVD-video disk? Stuff You'll Need. From a hardware point of view, a drive able to read a DVD is necessary.
So any DVD drive or DVD burner will do. As for the software, you'll need a DVD ripper. In our section presenting the you'll find some useful tools, all for free.
The most known are DVD Shrink, FormatFactory, Free Movie DVD Maker or Free Video Converter but K9Copy (Linux) is an excellent soft. Our preferred is. It has very nice features: DVD Shrink can backup your DVD discs or re-author them before copy. Re-authoring your DVD allows to suppress the subtitles you don't want, to choose the language you want to keep, to suppress the bonus.: thus you can reduce the amount of data you want to copy and make your movie able to fit onto a single sided/single layer recordable DVD-/+R disk. Set DVD Shrink Parameters. You can verify that all languages are selected as choosen in 'Stream Selection Setting', while only english subtitles stay.
As you can see, by default DVD Shrink set the compression ratio automatically ('Automatic') so that the copied DVD would fit on a single DVD-R/+R as choosen in the 'Preferences Settings' window. Here the compression ratio is 50.7%: that is to say DVD Shrink would have to shrink the files we want to copy by a factor 2 to make them fit onto a single sided/single layer recordable DVD-/+R disk. If you think this compression ratio is too high, you have two choices. One solution is to re-author your DVD to keep only the items you really want. This solution is explained later.
Another solution is to keep the whole thing, applying no compression, and burn it on a dual-layered disc. In order to do this just change 'Automatic' to 'No Compression' in the drop-down menu.
Now, you can see the ripped DVD will need more than 7.4 Go.