Okay, I admit it, I have no techno ability. I bought the 2 GB Sansa Fuse because the nice guy at Best Buy told me it would play a couple of movies. I have a 2 GB micro disk. I have tried for three days and I give up. The movies I am trying to transfer are off a regular DVD. Why won’t it add it. All I want is the movies. I am going to return it to Best Buy tomorrow! Urgghh!
Search the forum here. It’s a big topic. There are issues.
Like suggested above, do a search, you’ll find tons of help.
But bascially… You need to first convert the DVD, as you would for any player. I use anydvdconverter, it costs and there are supposedly free ones (which wouldn’t work for me). Then you use the SMC.
If they’re commercial DVDs, they’re probably copy protected. The first thing you need to do to move the video to ANY player other than a DVD player is to use a program that breaks the copy protection. Of course, it’s technically illegal to do so. In fact, it’s illegal for me to even tell you that such a thing is possible, under the DMCA. That’s right, the company that made the DVD is allowed to dictate to you what kind of hardware you’re allowed to use to play the DVD you paid for.
This will be true REGARDLESS of what player you get. Nobody who has a business presence in the US can legally provide you with software that will break DVD DRM. You’ll have to look around on the internet to find the right software to break the encryption, some kind of >>DVD Decrypter<< program you might say. Once it’s decrypted, you’re past the tough part.
@traalfaz wrote:
You’ll have to look around on the internet to find the right software to break the encryption, some kind of >>DVD Decrypter<< program you might say. Once it’s decrypted, you’re past the tough part.
“Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more!” 
DUDE! TRY THIS ONE…F UR SILLY DVD’S WATEVER MOVIES YOU LIKE CAN BE ON UR SANSA FUZE. SIMPLY DO IT LIKE THIS:
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DOWNLOAD REAL PLAYER CAFE; WHICH WILL ALLOW YOU TO DOWNLOAD ANY VIDEO TO YOUR COMPUTER.
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GO to watch-movies.net and download all your favorite movies to your PC, using the Real Player Cafe program.
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Once saved to your computer, you will then have to convert that video to a “mov.” format which you can do using the “Mediaconverter.org” website.
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Finally, Use SMC to download the movie to your Fuze device.
…Brilliant! or What?
“Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more!”
what’s it like?
brenden
For me, RealPlayer is a bunch of stuff that doesn’t work…list of movies leads to only trailers…which won’t download. And Watch-movies.net leads to a bunch of links that don’t work either.
I have a little bit of time to mess with my mp3 player and go online here…but I don’t have hours and hours and hours.
I think I’ll stick with short You-tube videos for Fuze use and jsut buy or rent DVD’s and stick them in a portable DVD player when I need that.
To each his own.
I use anydvdconverter, which will allow me to convert dvd’s I buy, they are not protected like rented ones. I use this while I’m doing other things. Then the second and last step is to convert them on SMC again while doing other things. 2 steps. yes anydvdconverter costs money but it’s worth it for me.
I was looking at amazon and they have protable players you can use an mp3 player in, they work through the headphone jack (they all say ipod, but since it’s just through the headphone jack it woudl work). Some even play dvd’s too. I was looking around at different things and found those. That’s what I was thinking of getting instead of a portable dvd player.
No! Search up “free movies online” on the Google website and watch-movies.net will be the first official site to come up.
brenden
I understand! I went to the exact website watch-movies.net but it’s really a mixed bag of links that they are providing to other sources for the movies themselves.
Everything that I tried didn’t work.
They actually have a Vote counter on their site with the question: Did the movie work? Yes/No
It seemed to be running about 50/50.
50% functionality is not good.
Plus, even though I downloaded Real Player, I didn’t really understand the steps involved in getting RealPlayer to download from the watch-movies.net site.
The site suggested that I download FoxFire if the movies didn’t work. This was just to PLAY them.
At that point I lost patience.
Just for giggles, when you decrypt a full-length movie and convert it with SMC…how large a file(s) are we talking about (total) ?
@blackdog_sansa wrote:
“Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more!”
what’s it like?
Homage to Monty Python.
@blackdog_sansa wrote:
Just for giggles, when you decrypt a full-length movie and convert it with SMC…how large a file(s) are we talking about (total) ?
Mine are 600,000 KB and up. For basic 90 minute movies. This is why I’ve been putting them on cards, because I don’t have enough room on my D drive… On one 8gb card I have 10 movies, a few 20 minute tv shows and 2 rock videos. There isn’t much left for anything else on that card.
Interesting. Thanks.
Thanks so much for the responses. I threw in the towel and purchased a 120GB ipod. I love it! I am happily watching movies. Sorry Sansa. Keep trying. Never give up!
@avtbrunt wrote:
Thanks so much for the responses. I threw in the towel and purchased a 120GB ipod. I love it! I am happily watching movies. Sorry Sansa. Keep trying. Never give up!
So you went from a 4gb player (2gb player + 2gb card) to a 120gb tha quickly? wow. I only have 40gb in cards (plus my 4gb fuze) for movies, bought over a period of time. [okay I didn’t realize I had 40gb in cards, I just quick summed it in Excel where I keep my list:dizzy_face:]
