Somewhere in Bangkok to Transfer Home Movies on DVD to Flash Drive

[srowndedbyh2o]

Many years ago my Father put a bunch of our old home 8mm movies onto DVD’s. I’d like to transfer these to a flash drive.

Anyone know a place in Bangkok that can transfer those movies from the DVD to a flash drive so I can watch them on my MacBook?

I’m currently staying next to Bangkok Hospital. I looked around MBK mall yesterday, but none of the shops I spoke with had any idea what I was talking about.

Anyone know of a place to get this done? Preferably around the Pratunam or Central world area.

Thank you.

[bignbad]

Get a portable USB DVD drive and do it your self, or just watch them from the DVD

[ignis]

USB dvd external drive for Windows and Mac

 

from around 340 baht, even high end Named players cost as little as 630 baht > https://www.advice.co.th/product/optical-disk-drive-odd-/ext-dvd-rw

 

[srowndedbyh2o]

1 hour ago, bignbad said:

Get a portable USB DVD drive and do it your self, or just watch them from the DVD

 

1 hour ago, ignis said:

USB dvd external drive for Windows and Mac

 

from around 340 baht, even high end Named players cost as little as 630 baht > https://www.advice.co.th/product/optical-disk-drive-odd-/ext-dvd-rw

 

Thank you. I’ll take a look at some local shops and check Shopee/Lazada

[bamnutsak]

Once you have the DVD device you can then rip the DVDs, converting to something more modern/open like an mp4.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 13 by bamnutsak

[patman30]

do as everyone suggests
get a portable DVD player and either watch from DVD or rip yourself
if ripping yourself you can also upscale them to 1080p,
which may be a bit or trial and error for size, resolution, quality and software as lots of options these days to do this
for peace of mind save onto 3 drives (which will should be replaced every 5-10 years)
whatever you do DO NOT THROW THE DVDs AWAY!!!!!! as the data on a DVD is good for about 50 years

[srowndedbyh2o]

1 hour ago, bamnutsak said:

Once you have the DVD device you can then rip the DVDs, converting to something more modern/open like an mp4.

 

 

 

 

 

35 minutes ago, patman30 said:

do as everyone suggests
get a portable DVD player and either watch from DVD or rip yourself
if ripping yourself you can also upscale them to 1080p,
which may be a bit or trial and error for size, resolution, quality and software as lots of options these days to do this
for peace of mind save onto 3 drives (which will should be replaced every 5-10 years)
whatever you do DO NOT THROW THE DVDs AWAY!!!!!! as the data on a DVD is good for about 50 years

Thank you. I'll give it a try. The movies are important to me not just because of my family history, but they contain footage of areas in Southern California that do not exist anymore, so some history value there.

[patman30]

2 hours ago, srowndedbyh2o said:

but they contain footage of areas in Southern California that do not exist anymore, so some history value there

i got no idea what the videos are like
but if they have views that no longer exist
you could also be kind to the internet and create snippets of the lost lands and post them publicly
(obviously snipping out any personal footage should you do not wish to share)

[tomazbodner]

There is DVD ripping software which can convert a DVD into a video file, probably MPEG4 would be best. Many of them are free.

 

I use Handbrake (not for DVD ripping but format conversion), which seems to have also been voted best free DVD ripping software for Mac: https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-free-dvd-ripper

 

It has profiles of target device, but it also allows you to tweak format, in case file is too big to fit. It doesn't support original DVDs (like original movies bought in store) as those are copy protected and this software doesn't include DRM decryption but as your DVDs are home-made, they would not be protected anyway. You can get it from https://handbrake.fr/

 

There's then a player for those, for which I use VLC Media Player, which again is a free tool from http://www.videolan.org/  This tool actually can read DVD files directly from the disc and also has conversion options inside to convert them to another format, different size, as well as post-process it for better image quality or reduced size, where it can then save video to another format.

 

I prefer VLC as player, but both Handbrake and VLC can make file that plays on QuickTime player as well, if you choose so, or make video optimized for your mobile device.

 

You'll need an external DVD drive, and pretty much any USB drive would do, but if you want it fancy, you could find an Apple SuperDrive which is built for Mac. There are plenty of them available second hand, not sure if new ones are still being sold. Example: https://www.kaidee.com/en/product-369215957