Streaming only (aka: I got rid of my final fitness DVD's)

[adawn]

Originally Posted by katmom

Can this drive be used to copy DVD’s to either a hard drive, jump drive, or cloud drive?

My internet provider is typically reliable, but I awakened the other morning ready for my morning workout before logging on for work. Internet was down for maintenance and estimated to be back up by 6am which was when I needed to be logged on for work. I ended up using 3 different DVD’s to take the place of my scheduled streaming workout.

Not 100% sure of your exact question but I'll try to answer.

You can use it to "rip" dvds to mp4 format on your laptop or computer and then once in mp4 format you can copy those mp4 files to an external hard drive or I suppose a cloud drive depending on your storage limits. But that second part about transferring the mp4s to an external drive doesn't involve the dvd player/writer; it's something that happens between your computer/laptop and the external storage device.

As far as flash/jump/thumb drives...I think I remember you can't put individual files that are more than 4GB on them unless you reformat the drive. But mp4's aren't usually that large. To clarify: you can buy a thumb drive with 64GB+ of storage but if you make an .iso file of a dvd (for example), it's usually going to be more than 4GB and it will NOT transfer to a thumb drive. But then again, you can't "play" an iso file the way you can play an mp4 file so probably not an issue most people will ever encounter.

I backup all of my dvd-r's as iso files because I have transferred all of my VHS to dvd-r's and dvd-r's can go bad/degrade over time and I want to be able to recreate the dvd-r's if that ever happens vs. having to transfer the workouts from VHS to dvd again (if that makes any sense).

If you have further questions about mp4s and playing workouts in mp4 format from an external drive on your tv, I don't have much, if any experience with that other than I know how to download a youtube video to mp4 and I believe I used to use the program handbrake years ago to rip a few of my dvds to mp4 format. Gave up on that project after awhile.

I kind of like dvds actually. I have purchased some cathe live workouts for instance and am still trying to decide whether I should be totally old school and convert them to dvds or if I should just hook up my laptop to my tv with an HDMI cable if I want to do the workout or if I can connect an external drive containing mp4s to my tv and access them that way, etc. Analysis paralysis basically.