Best ways to back up family home movies to a PC?

I've got a bunch of old family movies on VHS that I managed to rip over to DVD.

Since DVDs aren't exactly the most reliable storage medium—long term, anyway—I'm planning to move everything over to my PC, but I've hit a bit of a wall.
The discs play fine in something like BS player, but the data on them is in some specific format that I can't seem to convert.

Here’s the situation:


So, this is one movie, but instead of a single file, I've just got a bunch of different files here. I want to merge them into one standard .avi or whatever other format I can actually save on a hard drive—and maybe even edit later on.
Any idea how to pull this off?

James Rogers53 said:I've got a bunch of old family movies on VHS that I managed to rip over to DVD.

Since DVDs aren't exactly the most reliable storage medium—long term, anyway—I'm planning to move everything over to my PC, but I've hit a bit of a wall.
The discs play fine in something like BS player, but the data on them is in some specific format that I can't seem to convert.

Here’s the situation:


So, this is one movie, but instead of a single file, I've just got a bunch of different files here. I want to merge them into one standard .avi or whatever other format I can actually save on a hard drive—and maybe even edit later on.
Any idea how to pull this off?

Man, it's been forever since I dealt with this stuff... back in the day, I always used Handbrake for this kind of thing, but I guess I'm just getting rusty.😵 😵

BurnAware gets the job done. Plus, it won't cost you a dime. http://www.pcfreetime.com/

Managed to get it working with BurnAware. 👍

So, I moved those three files over to iMovie—trimmed out the intro and outro junk that had nothing to do with the actual movie, and added my own title cards. Then I hit "save," which ended up taking about 4 or 5 hours.
Once that was done, the resulting file won't play in Windows Media Player. It’s an mp4.
This error pops up:



VLC plays it, but the video stutters or slows down sometimes—it doesn't look right, definitely not like the original VHS. Basically, it's a mess.

Maybe I'm missing some codecs, or maybe I just messed up the workflow somewhere?

Maybe give it a shot with VLC.

By the way, you can actually handle those kinds of DVD issues pretty easily using Gordian Knot. It’ll convert everything over to DivX, which works fine, though I know most people tend to lean toward .mp4 these days. Personally, I still think an .avi file is perfectly acceptable for what you need. One thing to watch out for is that iMovie can sometimes be a little temperamental when you're exporting files, but I'm fairly certain if you try saving it specifically in .avi format, you won't run into any trouble.
Here is a tutorial for Gordian Knot: http://no1tutorials.net/divx-filmovi...koliko-i-kada/