# Dvd to windows

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-to-windows/163893>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 24, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-to-windows/163893 "2003-03-24T22:29:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-to-windows/163893/1 "2003-03-24T22:29:21Z")

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I was wondering, is it possible to convert some of my dvd’s to windows playable (non-dvd drive)?  
I have an extensive movie collection, which plays fine at my home computer (which has a dvd drive and windows xp), but I was wondering if I can transfer it to cd, in order to watch it on my laptop computer (it does not have a dvd drive).

How would I do this? Is there any software that I have to buy, or can I do it through windows xp media player (which I’m not terribly familar with)?

\*BTW mods, if this is illegal, please lock the thread. I don’t think it is, because I legally purchased the dvd’s. Also, it’s legal to copy dvds to vhs (AFAIK), so I wouldn’t think that there would be a legal issue with dvd-cd.

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**Author:** ![Dada321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dada321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dada321)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-to-windows/163893/2 "2003-03-24T22:52:27Z")

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Everthing you need to know and more can be found here,

[http://www.doom9.org/](http://www.doom9.org/)

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvd-to-windows/163893/3 "2003-03-24T22:56:51Z")

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You need to convert dvd to vcd. There are tons of instructions on the net on this (search for ‘dvd to vcd’) & you didn’t say if these are commercial dvds, so let’s just assume you made them yourself with your camcorder.