DVD Ripping Questions

[sunzt]

Hey All,

I got some DVD's that I want to copy to my HD for easy access, and I was wondering what are some good Free DVD Ripping programs. I don't really care about making disks, but rather to just copy segments of say a Music DVD onto my hard drive into a readable format. I also know some major ripping formats are DiVX, MPEG-2, and AVI, but what are the differences in the quality and compression of these formats? Would really appreciate any advice, thanks.

 

[homercles337]

DVD2AVI

AVI is just a wrapper for any compression algorithm you use. Divx and xvid (preferred) are what you should go with.

 

[warcrow]

DVD Shrink + DVD Decrypter = All you'll ever need for this

 

[BlueWeasel]

Fairuse Wizard for making smaller Divx/Xvid files if hard drive space is an issue and you don't want all the VOB on the drive.
http://www.fairusewizard.com/lang_en/

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally posted by: warcrow
DVD Shrink + DVD Decrypter = All you'll ever need for this

I 2nd that and to top it off, it's free too

 

[SirPappy]

Originally posted by: warcrow
DVD Shrink + DVD Decrypter = All you'll ever need for this

yup

 

[SirPappy]

oh, and you also need to have nero to burn to a dvd i belive.
I'm not sure, but i think dvd shrink piggy backs on that softwear.

 

[imported_Nacelle]

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[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: SirPappy
oh, and you also need to have nero to burn to a dvd i belive.
I'm not sure, but i think dvd shrink piggy backs on that softwear.

Actually, Nero isn't required. DVD Decrypter can burn the ISO images created by Shrink, and it's possible to automate the entire DVD Shrink + Decrypter process.

 

[statik213]

Originally posted by: SirPappy

Originally posted by: warcrow
DVD Shrink + DVD Decrypter = All you'll ever need for this

yup

double yup

 

[Genx87]

Bumping this because I have question about dvd shrink.

This app pretty good for taking a dvd and putting in on a hard disk?
Somehow I was combing through some old folders and came across this program, installed it, and used it.

Seems like most dvds come out to about 4.5 GBs. Space isnt a problem but encoding it taking about 90 minutes on an AXP@2200Mhz with 1GB of ram writing to a raid 1 array.

I am doing the deep analyzer because my plan is to keep all of my dvds on a file server and have the ability to watch them on an HDTV.

 

[Traire]

If space isnt an issue, use dvd decryptor instead.

 

[Genx87]

Will it provide the best quality? That is all I am after here. Right now I am just testing these things out so when I get my HTPC setup with a nice HDTV Ill be building a filer with about 1TB of disk and streaming it over a GBit network.

Want to have my entire DVD collection at my finger tips so I never have to get up and put them into the dvd player

 

[DaCurryman]

Originally posted by: statik213

Originally posted by: SirPappy

Originally posted by: warcrow
DVD Shrink + DVD Decrypter = All you'll ever need for this

yup

double yup

triple yup

 

[Bateluer]

Odd that no one has mentioned Doom9.org or the AutoGK program. I looked into Fairuse, and unless you pay for it, it doesn't do what the Gordian Knot programs do.

Doom9.org is your one stop shop for all things regarding video/audio encoding. I'd highly suggest you try it out.

 

[MustISO]

Originally posted by: Genx87
Will it provide the best quality? That is all I am after here.

DVDDecrypter doesn't change the files at all. If all you want is the DVD on your HD, that's a good way to do it. Shrink would be good if you only want the DVD and no extras. That's how I would do it if I wanted to put my DVD's on a HTPC.
Just use DVDShrink with no compression.

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: MustISO

Originally posted by: Genx87
Will it provide the best quality? That is all I am after here.

DVDDecrypter doesn't change the files at all. If all you want is the DVD on your HD, that's a good way to do it. Shrink would be good if you only want the DVD and no extras. That's how I would do it if I wanted to put my DVD's on a HTPC.
Just use DVDShrink with no compression.

ok cool