Backup your movie collections with Brasero in Linux Ubuntu

I like to watch my movie collections more than one time. Or sometimes I like to watch certain scenes in few movies. The problem is sometimes my DVD disc is scratched and I have to buy it again. So, I decide to convert all my DVD to ISO file, so I can watch anytime, any selection scenes, easier and without worry have the same problem again. If my DVD disc is broken and I want to play it using my DVD player, I still can burn it.

Yes, you may say the file size will be too big, 3.3GB to 4.4GB per movie, meanwhile you can convert it and get smaller file size. But, you will get lower quality graphic, you can’t choose the language and you can’t burn it again.

It will consume a lot of hard disc space but with 1 TB or 2TB hard disc capacity available at the market, you can back up any movie that you want.

I choose ‘Brasero‘ because it’s very easy to use.

Open your ‘Brasero’ application. If you don’t have it you can install it using ‘$sudo apt-get install brasero‘ in your Linux terminal with Internet connection.

Enter your DVD disc, wait until it occur on your desktop then click ‘Disc copy’ button.
Then select to ‘write to image file‘.

Set your destination folder and name the ISO file.

Now, it’s ready to copy your DVD to image file.

Writing image file on process.

Image copy is completely done.

You can check the result at your destination folder.

If you want to see the movie, select the movie file, click right mouse button, select ‘Open with‘ menu and select VLC media player. If you don’t have VLC media player, you can install it using ‘$sudo apt-get install vlc” in your linux terminal with Internet connection.

Now you can watch your movie collections any time you want.