Playback Shrinked DVD Folder on Hard Drive with SMPlayer

How to Playback DVD Folder on Hard Drive with SMPlayer?

 

SMPlayer is a multiplatform multimedia player front-end for MPlayer. It utilizes Qt version 4, and thus can be run on both Windows and Linux. It includes all the features of MPlayer and it's freeware. SMPlayer supports playing DVD folder without encryption. It can be downloaded from Sourceforge.net or Smplayer.org.

After copying DVD to hard drive as DVD folder with Any DVD Shrink, you can use SMPlayer to play the DVD folder without any DVD player. The video quality is just as the same as playing on DVD Player. Follow the steps below and you can enjoy the DVD folder on hard drive.

1. Open SMPlayer. The main interface of SMPlayer is as the picture below.

SMPlayer can play DVD folder on hard drive which was copied from DVD by DVDSmith Moive Backup.

2. Click menu by "Open --> DVD from folder".

After copying DVD to hard drive, use SMPlayer to play DVD folder on hard drive.

3. Click "Choose a directory" to browse the DVD folder which was copied from DVD by DVDSmith Movie Backup.

DVDSmith copies DVD to hard drive as DVD folder which can be opened with SMPlayer for playing.

4. Select the DVD folder and click OK.

Browse DVD folder copied by the free DVD copying tool named DVDSmith Movie Backup.

5. SMPlayer will start to play DVD folder on hard drive. Enjoy the DVD now!

DVDSmith copies DVD to hard drive as DVD folder and Smplayer plays the DVD folder without no video quality loss.

 

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