Ripping DVDs

[Ulfwald]

I want to begin using a Network media Center. And I would like to begin ripping my DVDs to my HDD. What is a good program to use, and how can i use it to edit out all those stupid "previews" and still maintain a good visual .
The network media center I want to use is the Dlink media lounge. Here

So far I have ripped over half my CDs to my HDD, and that takes up about 30 gig. Got a few more to go, and I will be done.

Now If I want to store mokies, and beable to stream them to this, what can I use, etc?

 

[her209]

I use DVD Decrypter and rip them as ISOs.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: her209
I use DVD Decrypter and rip them as ISOs.

:thumbsup:

DVD Shrink also comes in handy sometimes

 

[ThisIsMatt]

DVD Decrypter will let you rip straight to an ISO (removing macrovision).

DVD Shrink will let you reauthor the DVD without modifying the quality of the video and then write out a new ISO.

You can then mount the ISO's onto virtual drives using something like Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools.

Then, you can post in the correct forum, Elite Noob!

 

[JasonSix78]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: her209
I use DVD Decrypter and rip them as ISOs.

:thumbsup:

DVD Shrink also comes in handy sometimes

Yeah, DVD Shrink works great, that's all I use.

-Jason

 

[DaveSimmons]

IMHO, a waste of time for DVDs since you'll watch them much less often than you'll listen to the CDs, and storing in less than 4-6 GB per disc will mean degrading the visual quality.

If you must, from the specs it looks like you can choose from either MPEG2 (DVDDecrypter / DVDShrink), MPEG4 or xvid.

Advanced Search in the Software forum should turn up hundreds of threads on these kinds of encodings, see also doom9.net and dvdrhelp.com

 

[aidanjm]

The cool thing about that media player is it will play mpeg4. You'd be better off using MPEG4/xvid/divx than mpeg2.