Play DVD on USB Drives with DVD-On-USB™

Play DVD on USB DriveDVD-On-USB™ is a cross platforms software bundled by New Cyberian. With DVD-On-USB™ you can copy the VIDEO_TS folder on any non copy protected DVD to a USB drive and play the content as a normal DVD. DVD-On-USB™ is portable because there is no need to install any sotware on the hard drive of the computer that is used to play the DVD. All you need is to download and copy the software onto the USB drive which also stores the content of the DVD you intend to play.

Using DVD-On-USB™ solves the problem of distributing video content used to be on replicated DVDs but now need to serve computers without a DVD drive.

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Setup DVD-On-USB™ on Windows

  1. Buy some high quality USB drives from New Cyberian

  2. Format the USB drives as "FAT32" if you intend to use the USB on both PC and Mac; otherwise "NTFS" will be ok too

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  3. Download DVD-On-USB™, unzip the files and copy them to the root directory of your USB drive.

  4. Replace the VIDEO_TS folder on your USB drive with the VIDEO_TS on your DVD

  5. Double click the ’Play DVD on PC’ icon on the USB drive to start the program.

Setup DVD-On-USB™ on Mac

  1. Buy some high quality USB drives from New Cyberian

  2. Use "Disk Utility" to format the USB drive as "MS-DOS (FAT)" if you intend to use the same USB drive on Windows. Otherwise format the drive as ’Mac Os Extended (Journaled)’ or any other formats.

  3. Download DVD-On-USB™, unzip the files and copy them to the root directory of your USB drive.

  4. Replace the VIDEO_TS folder on your USB drive with the VIDEO_TS on your DVD

  5. Double click the ’Play DVD on Mac’ icon on the USB drive to start the program.

Choose the right USB drive is crucial. New Cyberian has been the advocate of business ethic and will never use inferior quality USB chips. From the outside most USB drives look the same. It’s the inside that makes the difference. Unethical vendors may sell you USB drive with reclaimed chips or recycled chips. You probably will not notice the difference with just few read and write sessions. But the problem will surface down the road including data loss and skiping. Please do your homework before making the buying decision. The following articles can be helpful.

  • USB FAQs
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