Home Recorded DVDS
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 5:31 pm
Hi, all!
First time posting, but long-time MKV user. In fact, I purchased the registration key a few years ago. My question is that I have tons of home recorded DVDs from back in the day when I recorded from the TV to my DVD recorder. Most of them are in DVD-RW format. Also most of them are more than 8 years old - I stopped recording when I started streaming from Netflix - 2009 or so. My intention is to make them into MKVs for my Plex library.
I am having a very hard time copying the aforementioned disks. My desktop computer, with a DVD drive is two-years old and I have a older laptop that also contains a DVD drive. Either the drives will not open the home-recorded disks or I get multiple errors that ends up being failures. Yes, I have cleaned the disks.
Today, I attempted to make MKVS out of the disks from a desktop computer that I purchased in 2009 or so. My husband uses it as a gaming computer. Lol and behold, I was able to make MKVS out of some of the disks. When trying these particular disks on the other computer drives, it wouldn't work.
Can someone guide me in the right direction to copy the disks to my newer desktop..it would be much more convenient. Plus my husband wouldn't have to wait for me to use that PC for gaming.
Thank you! And sorry about the rambling question.
FYI: My store-bought disks make MKVs effortlessly from the newer desktop.
First time posting, but long-time MKV user. In fact, I purchased the registration key a few years ago. My question is that I have tons of home recorded DVDs from back in the day when I recorded from the TV to my DVD recorder. Most of them are in DVD-RW format. Also most of them are more than 8 years old - I stopped recording when I started streaming from Netflix - 2009 or so. My intention is to make them into MKVs for my Plex library.
I am having a very hard time copying the aforementioned disks. My desktop computer, with a DVD drive is two-years old and I have a older laptop that also contains a DVD drive. Either the drives will not open the home-recorded disks or I get multiple errors that ends up being failures. Yes, I have cleaned the disks.
Today, I attempted to make MKVS out of the disks from a desktop computer that I purchased in 2009 or so. My husband uses it as a gaming computer. Lol and behold, I was able to make MKVS out of some of the disks. When trying these particular disks on the other computer drives, it wouldn't work.
Can someone guide me in the right direction to copy the disks to my newer desktop..it would be much more convenient. Plus my husband wouldn't have to wait for me to use that PC for gaming.
Thank you! And sorry about the rambling question.
FYI: My store-bought disks make MKVs effortlessly from the newer desktop.