Dvd File To Hdd

[martinjr]

I have a DVD Recorder with a number of recorded video clips on it that I want to save to a hard disk. The DVD Recorder does not have a USB port on it although the clips are digital (HD)recordings, However it does have both input and output Scart sockets. I am wondering if there is an adapter for Scart to USB port on PC so that I can play those clips from PC or even Memory Stick?

[Etch]

Is the recorder DVD drive still working? If so, I would write the recordings to a DVD and then read that on the PC. I have a DVD/HDD recorder on which the DVD drive failed some time ago, but I have successfully transferred recordings by removing the hard drive and attaching it directly to a PC. The reading of the hard drive is not simple though, so not for the faint-hearted!

[Buenchico]

A Scart output is analogue. You can't just feed it 'raw' into a USB socket. You need a Scart to phono adapter
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation
(You can ignore the reference to 'VHS' in that product description. It will work just as well with the analogue output from your DVD recorder).

Alternatively, if your PC has an optical media drive that can read DVDs, first ensure that you've got VLC installed: https://www.videolan.org/

Insert your DVD into your PC's drive. You can then play it in VLC. (Media > Open Disk).

Go to Tools > Preferences > Input/Codecs and use the 'Record directory or filename' field to tell VLC where you'd like store your recorded clips.

Go to View and enable Advanced Controls. You'll then see a red Record button at the bottom left of your screen. Clicking it once starts recording of the video & audio content, clicking it again stops it. (Easy peasy! I've recorded parts of DVDs plenty of times that way).

[martinjr]

I should have also explained that I want to send some copies to friends on USB. Use of DVD Players seem to be dying out, hence USB as the preferred storage device. As I speak I am copying more recordings from one ‘proprietary’ box to my DVD recorder via scart. The quality is excellent and won’t be a problem.What I’m really after is the interface that has a scart plug at one end and a USB input to PC at the other. Thanks for the very good replies so far.

[barry1010]

Is it a DVD recorder that will record to DVD or a PVR that records only to its hard drive?

[Buenchico]

>>> What I’m really after is the interface that has a scart plug at one end and a USB input to PC at the other

Aaagh! I though that I'd answered that but I now see that AB's system has done its nasty trick (that it occasionally seems to do) of not allowing multiple Amazon links in a post. Grrr!

I'll therefore repost the first part of what I actually wrote but substituting Tinyurl links in place of direct Amazon ones. That should answer your question for you:

"A Scart output is analogue. You can't just feed it 'raw' into a USB socket. You need a Scart to phono adapter
https://tinyurl.com/96arwszk
together with one of these
https://tinyurl.com/3jsd22c5
(You can ignore the reference to 'VHS' in that product description. It will work just as well with the analogue output from your DVD recorder)."

Using those two devices together should solve your problem. (To the best of my knowledge, there's no single unit that can do the job). Once you've recorded the clips onto your hard drive, you can then copy them to memory sticks.

[Tuvok]

Copy the recordings to disk, then rip the disk to the computer.

Then have you thought about putting the videos onto YouTube?

Assuming your friends have internet!

You can put the videos on as private - only visible to those people you specify, or unlisted - you then send them the link.

[martinjr]

Thanks to everyone for answers. The solution in Buenchico's combined answers appears to be the closest to what I need. A copy of thclips to USB is most suitable for me. I will select 'Best Answer' as soon as I figure out who to do! Thank you all. M

[Etch]

Good luck with the USB video grabber, having played around with one myself, I've never found the results to be particularly good. The quality of an original digital recording will certainly be degraded by the digital > analogue > digital conversion, and any widescreen (16:9 picture ratio) video is likely to be awkward.

[Etch]

The video grabber that I bought from Amazon back in 2014 is this one (currently unavailable) but it looks pretty much like the one in Buenchico's link:
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