Is there a free way to watch a DVD from a file on my netbook?

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Hi avast! “experience collective”.

What I want to do is watch a DVD video that I already own, on a netbook, without having to plug in a clumsy & battery-draining USB DVD drive. There’s a whole bunch of trialware apps that will convert it to AVI or MP4 but insert a huge watermark if don’t pay for the full package. Does anyone here know a good way of doing this?

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Maybe you find somthing you can use here. http://lists.thedatalist.com/

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Something like these

http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/

If you already have the file on your system then you should be able to play it with VLC Player without converting

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Have you looked at HandBrake and Screencast-O-Matic ??? :slight_smile:

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Thanks guys.
I’ll be exploring the various options. :slight_smile:

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Vladimir, make a copy (.iso) from the DVD and use VirtualCloneDrive to mount the iso and use it as a virtual DVD. Easy. Clean. Freeware.
http://www.slysoft.com/pt/download.html

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+1 :slight_smile:

Making iso file, you can use ImgBurn for free (be careful to optional toolbar).
http://www.imgburn.com/

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Decrypting the DVD copy protection is the key and from Pondus’s link I discovered that a trial version of a program I already had includes a permanently free ‘DVD Decrypter’ feature (http://www.dvdfab.com/hd-decrypter.htm) which does exactly what I was looking for.

I also found this one (http://dvdsmith.com/dvdsmith-movie-backup.html )which also does the job.

Thanks again for all the suggestions.

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Try VLC