DVD Ripping?

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Ive got a bunch of DVD movies that I want to save to my computer. So my question is what is the best program to rip the DVDs to my hard drive? Im not too concerned with file size because Ive got a 240gb HD and would like to retain the DVD quality. Which format would you reccomend?
 
i like dvdshrink and playing the files with whatever dvd software you use. or you could make ISO's of the dvd's and mount them with daemon tools or something
 
Even though you have a lot of hard drive space, size is still a concern. I'd use DVD Shrink to compress the DVDs down to ~5GB a piece...
 
Pretty good article in last months maximum pc on a (semi)legal technique to ripping and encoding to divx, although for some reason I cant find the article =/.
 
Maximus825 said:
Even though you have a lot of hard drive space, size is still a concern. I'd use DVD Shrink to compress the DVDs down to ~5GB a piece...
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Isn't 4.7 gb the standard size for a dvd?
 
JOKER_JOKER said:
Isn't 4.7 gb the standard size for a dvd?
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For consumer media (DVD-R/DVD+R), but for professional most (but not all DVDs) are 8gb. Which is why you need a program like DVDShrink to "shrink" down the file size to fit on a DVD-R inorder to back it up.
 
Decode the dvd to iso using DVD Dycryptor

open the iso using dvdshrink and shrink it down in size but save the new one as iso as well.
( i like to reauthor the dvd without the menus and the 2.1 audio streams, just the 5.1, keeps the perfect movie quality)

and burn it using nero, or mount it using daemon tools
 
JOKER_JOKER said:
Isn't 4.7 gb the standard size for a dvd?
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Yeah, but he's ripping his DVDs to store on his hard drive. So he can set whatever size he wants. I prefer a nice round number when doing that.
 
Is it just me or does this question/ type of question come up atleast once a week?

JOKER_JOKER said:
Isn't 4.7 gb the standard size for a dvd?
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DVD5 Discs are 4.7gigs, DVD9 discs are 9gigs. It seems that DVD9 has become alot more common now so plan on that size.

Programs you want to check out are DVD Decrypter and DVDShrink. I've never used RatDVD so I don't know how good it is but I do use both DVD Decrypter and DVDShrink.
 
CrimandEvil said:
Is it just me or does this question/ type of question come up atleast once a week?


DVD5 Discs are 4.7gigs, DVD9 discs are 9gigs. It seems that DVD9 has become alot more common now so plan on that size.

Programs you want to check out are DVD Decrypter and DVDShrink. I've never used RatDVD so I don't know how good it is but I do use both DVD Decrypter and DVDShrink.
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I don't care for ratDVD much. Many people swear by it, but when I used it it was horrid. Took too much time and the results were not great.
 
Tiny said:
http://www.ratdvd.dk/index.htm

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Another vote for ratDVD. Quality is very good for the kind of compression you get, especially when you take into account that you can restore the original dvd with full quality from it. It takes a while to compress it, but imho its the best way to archive your dvds. Saves a lot of space, and if you lose the disc, you can restore it with no quality loss.

You'll still need to use DVD Decryptor to rip protected discs before you can make a ratDVD file though.
 
If he were asking to archive his movies to discs then I would whole-heartedly suggest DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink. But since he wants them to stay on his computer, ratDVD is the best way to go.
 
Personally I would go with DVD Decrypter to rip the DVDs and then use AutoGK to convert the main movie into an Xvid or an MPEG2 file (same as on the DVD disc) with a quality setting of about 75-85% which would maintain most of the quality and take up about 2-3 gigs (Xvid) at most for a DVD9 movie. If I want any of the extras then I can just take out the disc but 99 out of a 100 everyone just wants to watch the movie.

But thats just what I do. ;)
 
Well the reason why I want to save the DVDs to my computer is so I wont have to fiddle around with swapping discs in and out of my DVD drive. Im disabled and having the movies on my hard drive just makes things easier because I dont have to ask someone to swap discs. If possible I would like to retain the menus and everything from the disc. I tried that RATDVD but damn its slow as hell. I have a pretty strong computer and it took about 5 hours to even hit halfway. Im thinking that making the iso would be best and then using daemon tools. How do I get DVD Decrypter to save as an ISO?
 
Click on "File Mode" and the ISO option should come up from the drop down menu.
 
IceyN1pPles said:
Decode the dvd to iso using DVD Dycryptor

open the iso using dvdshrink and shrink it down in size but save the new one as iso as well.
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I don't understand the 2 step approach using both DVD Decryptor and DVD Shrink.

I use DVD Shrink to rip and shrink to 4.7gb.

Then I can burn them with Nero or watch them on my PC with PowerDVD.

I've never even used DVD Decryptor.
 
MScrip said:
I don't understand the 2 step approach using both DVD Decryptor and DVD Shrink.

I use DVD Shrink to rip and shrink to 4.7gb.

Then I can burn them with Nero or watch them on my PC with PowerDVD.

I've never even used DVD Decryptor.
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Some movies it's necessary to use DVD Decrypter because of they won't play right in DVDShrink.
 
But dvd decrypter has so MANY options to learn!!

BTW: what kinds of times are you guys getting? For dvd shrink, I usually avg 15-20 minutes backing up whole movie w/ no compression. I flashed my tdk burner, so no more rip-loc, but it's still slow...

SLighty...maybe a lot ot...what's a good, fast, QUIET dvd burner? Plextor? Pioneer? That cheapo nec that's always on sale?
 
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