DVD Ripping - Looking for simple

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Ladies and Gents,
As part of my uber, super-duper, amazing home network build (HTPC, Workstation, NAS, Server, Xbox1, xbx360, PS2, PSP and Laptop) I am finally done with the hardware side of things and I am now honing in the tweaking and optimizing the software and application side of things.

I still buy a dvd now and then and I have a decent size collection however I really am tired of opening the box, putting the dvd in the drive and then watching the dvd. Instead, I would like to rip my collection on to my home-server in some form of compressed format (h264, xvid, wmv, whatever). I would like to know what the most simple way to do this would be. Essentially, I would like to put a DVD into the home server, have it auto launch a program, click a 'rip' button and have it spit out a 1GB (or so) file some time later.

Is there any way to do this natively from the DVD drive or do I need to install dvd decrypter?

Not interested in maiking ISOs.

Thx
 
I've used AutoGK for a few years now and it's always worked great for me.

You DO however, need to use DVD Decrypter to copy the DVD to your hard drive first though.

Once you get the settings how they need to be for the first time in DVD Decrypter and in AutoGK It's pretty simple.

You can pick what size AVI you wan and can split it into more than one part like 2x700mb or any custom size, pick the audio tracks, subtitles or not...

Here's a tutorial that started it all for me.

Takes ~ 3 hours to rip a 2 hour dvd movie to a 1gb file. If it's a freakin badass movie that I don't want to sacrifice as much quality on, it'll take maybe 3.5 hours to rip it to a 2gb file.

AutoGK also has a "job queue". So you can copy like 4 dvd's then add the jobs to the queue in AutoGK and have it automatically run overnight.
 
Excellent Response.

So what I am hearing is pretty simple. It may be better to simply back up a number of DVDs and then once a week, have it convert and delete the DVD-Decrypt dumps.

What Codec do you prefer? I want something that is pretty transferrable though primarily will be watched on the HTPC.
 
There is a push to head over to X.264 or H.264 encoding if you are looking for any form of compression of a ripped DVD. Better quality for a just a bit more space.
 
Phimp said:
Takes ~ 3 hours to rip a 2 hour dvd movie to a 1gb file. If it's a freakin badass movie that I don't want to sacrifice as much quality on, it'll take maybe 3.5 hours to rip it to a 2gb file.
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what were you running that on? i used to encode dvds to xvid in under an hour on a measley 2500+ axp (at 3200+)...
 
I have been using DVD decrypter and using Nero Recode to encode to a mp4. Files end up being 3.5 gig for what is close to the original quality. (3.5mps) I am certain there are better ways and compression formats, so I'm interested in peoples responses as well.

J4M3S0N79 said:
Ladies and Gents,
As part of my uber, super-duper, amazing home network build (HTPC, Workstation, NAS, Server, Xbox1, xbx360, PS2, PSP and Laptop) I am finally done with the hardware side of things and I am now honing in the tweaking and optimizing the software and application side of things.

I still buy a dvd now and then and I have a decent size collection however I really am tired of opening the box, putting the dvd in the drive and then watching the dvd. Instead, I would like to rip my collection on to my home-server in some form of compressed format (h264, xvid, wmv, whatever). I would like to know what the most simple way to do this would be. Essentially, I would like to put a DVD into the home server, have it auto launch a program, click a 'rip' button and have it spit out a 1GB (or so) file some time later.

Is there any way to do this natively from the DVD drive or do I need to install dvd decrypter?

Not interested in maiking ISOs.

Thx
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I am huge DVD Decrypter and AutoGK fan. Both work super and yes the queue feature of AutoGk is great, i load a few days of rendering into it and then forget about it....
 
I have been using handbrake for a while now and it is really easy. I am using it on a mac so I don't know how much different the windows version is, but it might be worth checking out.

http://handbrake.m0k.org/
 
I just use AnyDVD with DVD Decryptor... make ISO files of my DVD's... then when i want to watch one i just mount the iso... its like putting the original DVD in the drive when your too lazy to get up and do it yourself :D
 
I'm with Flecom. I feel ISO's are the way to go.
 
FLECOM said:
I just use AnyDVD with DVD Decryptor... make ISO files of my DVD's... then when i want to watch one i just mount the iso... its like putting the original DVD in the drive when your too lazy to get up and do it yourself :D
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i do something similar. i just use DVD Shrink for the files. and in Vista MCE i have the DVD Library feature enabled, so it shows every movie i have on my second hard drive, and plays just as it would if i had the DVD in the drive
 
Dvdfab Platinum, will rip and remove CSS and what not and convert to pretty much any format you desire
 
compslckr said:
I have been using handbrake for a while now and it is really easy. I am using it on a mac so I don't know how much different the windows version is, but it might be worth checking out.

http://handbrake.m0k.org/
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I use handbrake as well, but on a Windows platform. It makes ripping/transcoding DVDs super super easy. It basically combines the DVDDecrypter/AutoGK process into a single step.

I've also used DVDFab Decrypter a little bit, and it seems to work just fine for ripping DVDs, although I haven't figured out how to transcode them in that program yet. DVDFab's advantage is that it handles the "extra" copy-protection measures that some companies (most notably Sony) place on their DVDs (in Sony's case, ArccoS).

The DVD Decrypter/AutoGK process is effective as well. Having to go through a two-step process is a bit of a pain if you're only ripping one DVD. However, by separating the two steps, it makes ripping large numbers of DVDs easier. The first step, that of actually ripping the DVD onto the hard drive, is fairly fast. You sit at the computer, swapping a disc every few minutes while you do something else. Once you're done doing the ripping, you fire up AutoGK and queue up all the transcoding (the long step) for all the movies. Press "start", and it'll go to work and chew through all the movies in order.
 
handbrake also has a queue feature. just check off the box for "enable queue" once it starts ripping a dvd.
 
I use my xbox 360 as a media center extender to stream my DVD library so I'm pretty much stuck with using mpeg 2. But like these guys I also use DVD decrypter, DVD shrink, then I convert the VOB files to mpeg with VOB2mpg. I usually end up with a (huge) 3.5gb file, but the quality is good and I still get ac3 multichannel sound. Works flawlessly. I'm going to take some of the other posters advice and try autogk and compress to avi. However, last time I checked the 360 cant stream avi though, but I'm not sure. A lil off topic, but what kind of files can a ps3 stream from a pc?
 
pick up a modded original xbox for cheap and you can stream all the .avi's you want. Thats what I do. Store all my movies on 2 500gb NAS drives and stream them to my tv with the xbox media center. works amazingly well, + I can "backup" my games, run snes, genesis and nes emulators too :)
 
markintosh13 said:
So how well does Handbrake do with copy-protection / DRM?
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Handbrake handles the regular RCE and CSS, but doesn't defeat additional DRM like the ArccoS you'll see on DVDs from Sony Pictures, or the futzing that a few other producers do with the file structures. You'll have to use something else (like DVDFab) to break those.
 
I would suggest H.264 over XviD any day of the week, as long as your CPU is fast enough to compress it at a reasonable rate.

I would run any background DVD decrypter (I like AnyDVD), and then Nero Recode. It will read straight from the disk (as long as it's decrypted). You can specify any file size you want, or a constant bitrate. You can also choose the picture resolution, or let it auto-detect based on how complex the movie is versus your size/quality selection. You can downmix the audio to 2ch, or leave it as 5.1ch, but either way it gets transcoded to the much more efficient AAC codec. An all-around great product. PM me for picture quality and speed optimizations if you decide to go this route.

I like to compress to H.264, and then re-upsample the video quality during playback with FFDSHOW. Also, if you are outputting surround over SPDIF, you can make FFDSHOW transcode to digital AC3 output on the fly so your reciever gets the correct audio signal.
 
InorganicMatter said:
I would run any background DVD decrypter (I like AnyDVD), and then Nero Recode. It will read straight from the disk (as long as it's decrypted). You can specify any file size you want, or a constant bitrate. You can also choose the picture resolution, or let it auto-detect based on how complex the movie is versus your size/quality selection. You can downmix the audio to 2ch, or leave it as 5.1ch, but either way it gets transcoded to the much more efficient AAC codec. An all-around great product.
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AutoGK can do pretty much all of this as well, and so can Handbrake.

Looks like there are lots of options. Take your pick!
 
I like to use DVD Shrink and DVD Fab. I might try that other program mentioned that combines autogk because I tried to use that in the past I found it a little complicated.
 
Anyone try backing up their copy of 300 yesterday? I tried in my usually successful way and I was unable to. It was on an HD-DVD combo disc.
 
compslckr said:
I have been using handbrake for a while now and it is really easy. I am using it on a mac so I don't know how much different the windows version is, but it might be worth checking out.

http://handbrake.m0k.org/
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I tried handbrake for the first time after reading your post and I was impressed. I was able to compress a newly released movie down to a 2gb mpeg 4 and put it on a usb stick. I was surprised after popping the stick into my 360 that it played at such good quality, I couldnt tell much difference from the actual DVD. If I could only find a way to stream it via media center's interface.
 
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