I guess what you need is a dvd ripping tool. I think. Handbrake, dvdfab and any dvd cloner platinum are the best dvd ripping tool. But all of them,I like dvd fab the most. It can help convert dvd to all kinds of video formats on your external hard drive.

I sometimes use handbrake and sometimes use the dvd fab ripping tool.So if handbrake won't work very well,just have a try with dvd fab.

heck if I know...

I've tried MakeMKV and Handbrake. Neither are working. It's a DVD I made almost 2 years ago of a dance recital and I want to put it on youtube but it won't open in windows media player because it's saying the dvd is empty but if I play it on the toshiba vid player it works. I really want to rip the video because a lot of people involved hadn't seen the show yet.