The best DVD (movie) ripping/burning software?

[brigden]

I'm clueless as to what to look for... I want to back-up my DVD collection.

 

[Nocturnal]

DVD Decryptor, DVDShrink and Nero. Those are in my arsenal and you cannot go wrong with all three. I'm sure I'll be QFTd by many others.

 

[Schadenfroh]

DVDShrink to rip it to ISO (freeware)
Deep Burner Free edition to burn the ISO

 

[sparkyclarky]

best for what?

for speed, the dvdshrink/nero combo is hard to beat
for picture quality, I've heard that other programs (which generally take more fiddling and more time) are better

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
DVD Decryptor, DVDShrink and Nero. Those are in my arsenal and you cannot go wrong with all three. I'm sure I'll be QFTd by many others.

QFT

 

[brigden]

Does Nero allow you to remove specific aspects of each DVD? I want to remove special features, etc.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: brigden
Does Nero allow you to remove specific aspects of each DVD? I want to remove special features, etc.

No -- you'll need a program like DVD Shrink for that.

 

[brigden]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel

Originally posted by: brigden
Does Nero allow you to remove specific aspects of each DVD? I want to remove special features, etc.

No -- you'll need a program like DVD Shrink for that.

I'm using DVD Shrink, but I can't find a way to cut out the stuff I don't want.

EDIT: I see you can only cut out audio streams, which is disappointing.

 

[brigden]

If you can burn with DVD Decrypter, why do you guys use Nero? Or, do you have different uses for those proggies?

As far as I understand, one backs up a movie with DVD Shrink, then burns the ISO with Decrypter.

Also, what is the minimum compression rate you consider acceptable?

 

[n7]

I use DVD Decrypter for ripping, & DVD Rebuilder + CCE for re-encoding. Far higher quality than you'll ever get with DVD Shrink, CloneDVD, etc.

Now, CCE is far from being freeware, but you know what to do...

The simpler way is to stick with DVD Shrink for encoding, but i find anything lower than 75% = poor quality.

 

[Sforsyth]

hit Reuother

 

[brigden]

I'm seeing about a 50% failure rate when burning. The movie will burn sucessfully, but won't play properly in a DVD player. What could be the cause?

I'm using DVD Decrypter to burn the ISO (created in DVD Shrink).

 

[Jeff7]

Won't play properly - elaborate. Skips, or won't play at all?

Try burning at a slower speed.

 

[n7]

Sh!tty media?

 

[brigden]

Sorry, the media is Verbatim 8X DVD-R. I'm burning at 6X.

The drive is a LITEON.

Most movies will start up on my DVD player, but then stop and skip at random points.

 

[n7]

Does it play smootly on teh PC?

It could be your player.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

1. Do NOT burn at high speeds. Regardless of how fast the media is supposed to be, ALWAYS burn at the lowest speed allowed by your burner
2. For ripping to HD, DVDDecrypter cannot be beat.
3. IF you want to remove unwanted features, use Clone DVD to eliminate them, but NOT to do the transcoding.
4. If your menus are very big (in excess of 50 MB) you can use DVD MenuShrink to cut down the size dramatically.
5. Do the transcoding with DVD Shrink.
6. For the absolute BEST DVD9 to DVD5 reduction, use DVD Rebuilder with CCE... it will do stuff that no other transcoder application will be able to perform, quality-wise.

 

[gorcorps]

I'm using DVDshrink and love it. No problems here and my dvd player has been able to play everything. Compresses nicely to fit onto my dvd5 disc w/ no noticable quality loss. I may be wrong but isn't dvd-r less compatible than +r? My +r discs play in dam near everything (even my 10 dollor dvd player w/ very little supported media) while my friend's -r using the same program has problems.

To edit out special features and stuff, you have to hit the re-author button and play around with that.

 

[TSDible]

Originally posted by: gorcorps
I'm using DVDshrink and love it. No problems here and my dvd player has been able to play everything. Compresses nicely to fit onto my dvd5 disc w/ no noticable quality loss. I may be wrong but isn't dvd-r less compatible than +r? My +r discs play in dam near everything (even my 10 dollor dvd player w/ very little supported media) while my friend's -r using the same program has problems.

To edit out special features and stuff, you have to hit the re-author button and play around with that.

Actually...

DVD-r media tends to have greater support overall. However, it varies with each DVD player.

I have a friend as well that has an old player that likes +r but not -r. My old player likes the -r.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Generally, the best compatibility comes by using DVD+R and a drive that supports bitsetting. Bitsetting allows you to finalize the disc so that players recognize the media as DVD-ROM (same as all retail DVDs).

Granted, most current DVD players don't have problems with either -R or +R.

 

[brigden]

So, if you guys use DVD Decrypter to burn the ISO, what do you use Nero for?

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: brigden
So, if you guys use DVD Decrypter to burn the ISO, what do you use Nero for?

Nero isn't really necessary, but it's used for burning the VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS folders when you choose to save the finished result as video files rather than as an image (.ISO or .IMG)

If you like to edit the video, having it in .VOBs is easier than having to extract from the image again.

 

[Sforsyth]

Originally posted by: brigden
I'm seeing about a 50% failure rate when burning. The movie will burn sucessfully, but won't play properly in a DVD player. What could be the cause?

I'm using DVD Decrypter to burn the ISO (created in DVD Shrink).

shietty media or some DVD player just don't like playing Burnt movies I bought one new on boxing day from FS and took it back it would play about 2 out of 10 movies ok and the rest skipped, on good DVD's !

 

[Xyclone]

AnyDVD + CloneDVD2: fastest and most reliable combo IMHO.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: brigden
So, if you guys use DVD Decrypter to burn the ISO, what do you use Nero for?

I use Nero to burn all my stuff.