Hi. Welcome to tsg.
Your post is a little complicated. Anyway I will try answer your questions.
Firstly, if I understand you correctly, you want to copy the content of your dvd's onto your harddrive. If it is a commercial dvd, this may not be possible to do legally as commercial dvd's are normally copyright protected and we may not help you with this.
If there is no copyright, you can just copy the files on the dvd onto your c drive or what ever. No special software needed.
Okay for the next part of your question. I am going to try help, but not sure I understand fully what you are asking.
Let us distinguish between hardware and software. Hardware is the physical components of your computer. The parts you can touch and see on the outside as well inside your tower.
Software are instructions which tell the hardware what to do.
Let us now consider your hardware. You have a DVD device. Considering you appear to have a slightly older pc, there are possibly only two options here. You can either have a DVD reader or a dvd writer/reader. The DVD reader can only read DVD's (normally there is a little sign on the front of the draw that says DVD ROM). A DVD writer/reader can both read a dvd and burn a dvd (normally there is a little sign on the front of the draw that says DVD ROM and RW)
Now the software. These are the programmes that let you interact with the DVD ROM (RW). You possibly already have something like power dvd, windvd or maybe just windows media player installed on your pc. These programmes have the instructions needed to watch a DVD movie. Windows explorer (my computer) is a programme that allows you to view data files stored on the DVD.
Then you get all sorts of other applications which allow you to do various things. CODECS are additional pieces of instructions that allow you to watch highly compressed formats and other formats of video not commonly found on a regular DVD.
Other software like nero, roxio, cdburnerXP are all used to burn information onto blank DVD's. In order to do this you will need a DVD writer.
More than this I can't tell you. Hope it answers some of your questions.
Your post is a little complicated. Anyway I will try answer your questions.
Firstly, if I understand you correctly, you want to copy the content of your dvd's onto your harddrive. If it is a commercial dvd, this may not be possible to do legally as commercial dvd's are normally copyright protected and we may not help you with this.
If there is no copyright, you can just copy the files on the dvd onto your c drive or what ever. No special software needed.
Okay for the next part of your question. I am going to try help, but not sure I understand fully what you are asking.
Let us distinguish between hardware and software. Hardware is the physical components of your computer. The parts you can touch and see on the outside as well inside your tower.
Software are instructions which tell the hardware what to do.
Let us now consider your hardware. You have a DVD device. Considering you appear to have a slightly older pc, there are possibly only two options here. You can either have a DVD reader or a dvd writer/reader. The DVD reader can only read DVD's (normally there is a little sign on the front of the draw that says DVD ROM). A DVD writer/reader can both read a dvd and burn a dvd (normally there is a little sign on the front of the draw that says DVD ROM and RW)
Now the software. These are the programmes that let you interact with the DVD ROM (RW). You possibly already have something like power dvd, windvd or maybe just windows media player installed on your pc. These programmes have the instructions needed to watch a DVD movie. Windows explorer (my computer) is a programme that allows you to view data files stored on the DVD.
Then you get all sorts of other applications which allow you to do various things. CODECS are additional pieces of instructions that allow you to watch highly compressed formats and other formats of video not commonly found on a regular DVD.
Other software like nero, roxio, cdburnerXP are all used to burn information onto blank DVD's. In order to do this you will need a DVD writer.
More than this I can't tell you. Hope it answers some of your questions.
