dvd ripper
 

hello guys,
am after a good dvd ripper.
ok ok i am aware of copywrite laws n all but i av so many, taking to much place. gota backup n give them away!
wat do u suggest? n how do i then convert them to smaller files?
tried my 1st dvd using anydvd. but the size of my hdd was 7gb. i need to b able to convert them so they take reasonable space.
any sugestion?

Re: dvd ripper
 

DVD shrink works well IMHO

Or RatDVD works well and you can play the output files in most media players

Re: dvd ripper
 

how would u rip it in a different format when using dvd shrink?
when i tried doing it using that i came up wiv errors due to the copywrite i reckon.

Re: dvd ripper
 

I've never had that problem :shrug: I just put dvd in, open prog select open disk and back up, it does the rest for you, writing this from memory so might be a bit vague, what dvd are you trying to back up ??

Re: dvd ripper
 

Dvd43 ;)

Re: dvd ripper
 

There are some good products here: http://www.aoamedia.com/

Re: dvd ripper
 

Use DVD Decrypter...its the best...info can be found at Doom9

http://www.doom9.org/

Re: dvd ripper
 

dvd decrypter is old and wary now as it has not been updated for a good while and encryption has thats why now I have to recommend dvdfab decrypter http://www.dvdidle.com/free.htm

---------- Post added at 08:04 ---------- Previous post was at 08:03 ----------

could be a region 1 disc in a region 2 set drive maybe.

Re: dvd ripper
 

What's a WIV error?

Re: dvd ripper
 

Use it with RipIt4Me
DVD Decryptor can also be obtained from their site :D

Re: dvd ripper
 

I've had this on some discs. My way round it was to run anydvd in the background. Anyway zings way will work. Um so will mine, and a fair few others that have been posted ;)... So I guess the op has some research/testing to do ;)

Re: dvd ripper
 

My way is to use DVD Xplayer Pro when I can't be doing with all the ripping malarky. Saves having an extra program like AnyDVD running in the background

Re: dvd ripper
 

so wat u r trying to say is to run anydvd in the background n rip the cd with a different software?
in this case, which software is recomended?
also, would that software actually allow me to choose the format i want? the reason being, i ripped with anydvd. and was trying to convert with jetaudio.jetaudio was showing hours before completion even when using max resources!

---------- Post added at 16:09 ---------- Previous post was at 16:08 ----------

sorry, meant with!!! :)

Re: dvd ripper
 

Well once you have the ripped image/files you could run it through aoa dvdripper or similar to turn it into divx. But the other people in this thread seem to have much better ways of doing it than me.

p.s. it will take a fair time to convert to divx or similar and it will use a lot of resources, unless you have a fancy pc of course :)

Re: dvd ripper
 

thx Jefferson T
my pc shud fair well! i cud always not use it until its all done.
but then is it nt possible to rip it directly to some different format?
JetAudio was showing sth like 3hrs unless i was doing sth wrong!

Re: dvd ripper
 

and its still out of date ;)

Re: dvd ripper
 

that's why you use dvd decrypter or dvdshrink with Ripit4me.
It's last release was last week ;)

Re: dvd ripper
 

well dvdfab decrypter does it on its own

Re: dvd ripper
 

So (yup a major bump here ;)) before I download the ratDVD files I'm about to download, is it easy to convert them back into normal DVD and burn them?

Re: dvd ripper
 

Us Mac users use handbrake, it's also available for Windows and Linux.

Sources

Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD encrypted or unencrypted, PAL and NTSC.
Audio: AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG

Output

File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM.
Video: MPEG-4 or H.264.
Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through.

Also

Chapter selection
Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
Integrated bitrate calculator
Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
Grayscale encoding

There are another 17 presets that you can set your output for, heres just a few

Apple TV
iPod, iPod Touch and the iPhone
PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable
Xbox 360

And there's tons more you can do with it. Although it's not as quick as DVD shrink, I believe you can do a lot more with it.