Any DVD Clone - Clone your DVD before it's scratched or lost
Clone any dvd, protected or unprotected, PAL or NTSC, single-layer or dual-layer
Region DVD, CSS protected DVD and ARccOS encryption DVD can be copied to computer hard drive as a DVD folder using Any DVD Clone. Then you will be able to play the backup DVD folder without loading the DVD on your computer using free media players like SMPlayer, The KMPlayer and VLC Media Player and Media Player Classic.
VLC media player is an open source, free software media player written by the VideoLAN project. VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but that meaning is now deprecated. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, Syllable, BSD, MorphOS, Solaris and Sharp Zaurus. VLC media player can be downloaded from Videolan.org.
After copying DVD to hard drive as DVD folder with Any DVD Clone, you can use VLC Media Player 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 DVD folder on hard drive.
1. Open VLC Media Player.
2. Click Menu "Media --> Open Folder".

3. Browse the DVD folder copied by DVDSmith on your hard drive and click OK.
4. VLC Media Player will start to play the DVD folder on hard drive. Enjoy the DVD movie now!