How to get video off of a DVD.

[darkblade]

I recently made a short film for English Lit Class and burned it to a DVD to hand in. Then I lost the flashdrive I had the files used to make said film on. I have now got the DVD back from the teacher.

I want to be able to upload the film onto youtube but I don't know how to do that from the DVD encryped .BUP, .IFO, and .VOB files.

Is there anyway to convert these files into a .WMV, .AVI or other usable files type?

[Jack Squat]

You can buy a DVD to AVI converter.

Or this (http://www.dvdzip.org/)

Dunno of any free options off the top of my head.

[Divine Comedy]

http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-0.html?query=dvd+decrypter&tag=srch&searchtype=downloads&filterName=platform%3DWindows&filter=platform%3DWindows

There are a number of programs. You could try DVD decrypter, it worked with some things I did. However if you are at a college the easiest thing would be to hand it off to a broadcasting major. At my old college I could have done this in no time flat.

[Jimorian]

If you burned it, it shouldn't be encrypted at all. Windows Media player will play the raw .vob files for example. Lots of free video conversion programs around that will change .vob to .avi or .wmv or whatever.

Any Video Converter and SUPER are a couple I've used. The main problem you might run across is that .vob files are a fixed size, so if a video segment you want runs across this cutoff, you'll need a program that can re-attach them.

[experiment] Ahh, even easier than I thought. Windows Movie Maker will import raw .vob files, then you can edit them into chunks and then "publish" them to .wmv files which can go to youtube.

I'm making assumptions about OS and stuff of course, but SUPER will do ya if I'm wrong.

[darkblade]

Thanks for the help. I got the files recovered now. :smallsmile: