VLC is absolutely freeeeeeeeeeee! It plays most of the media. and to burn DVD on a computer, you need to have a DVD burner. if you don't have a DVD burner, and you bought a DVD discs, your money wasted. CD-R that you burn music with don't burn DVD movies or files. you need a DVD-RW. but on the other hand seems like youre asking how do you rip. burn and rip aren't same. burn is to put data in CD and rip is to extract the contents of cd. you need a DVD ripper to rip the DVD files from DISC. find it anywhere, but they're not free. you can easily google one or go to - www.download.com and download after a simple search. make sure you search for DVD ripper, not dvd burner!