{"id":2143,"date":"2011-12-29T23:05:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T07:05:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-02-07T11:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T19:30:44","slug":"2143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/2143","title":{"rendered":"Can I play and analyze video files from DVDs, YouTube, or other web sites in Vernier Video Analysis or Logger Pro?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short Answer<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a bit of a gray area. The short answer is &#8220;If the video can be loaded and played in Vernier Video Analysis or Logger <em>Pro<\/em>, then you can use the analysis tools to analyze the video.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Long Answer<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The long answer is that it can be tricky to move video from one format to another. In some cases, the video is copyright-protected, and made intentionally difficult to transfer into a different format. Note that many video files are copyright-protected and attempting to break that protection may be illegal.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To download files from YouTube and other web sites, there is a FireFox extension called &#8220;Video Download Helper&#8221;, which is a free download<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/3006\">https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/3006<\/a><\/li>\n<li>To get files from a DVD, there are several options which are often embroiled in legal battles. The most popular one is called HandBrake.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/handbrake.fr\/\">http:\/\/handbrake.fr\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note that it may not rip all DVDs due to encryption.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Links<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/9989\/\">My video doesn't play correctly in Vernier Video Analysis. What can I do?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/1342\/\">My video doesn't open in Logger <i>Pro<\/i>. What can I do?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/14035\/\">How can I convert a video to a different file format or codec?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short Answer This is a bit of a gray area. The short answer is &#8220;If the video can be loaded and played in Vernier Video&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1210,3496,3495,3494,2572,3493],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cd","tag-decode-codec","tag-encrypt-transfer-translate-encode","tag-movie-movies","tag-transfer","tag-video-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}