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I want to rip some dvd's on to a Hard Drive.

Any suggestions on a ripper for the job

dvd-shrink has worked well for me. very small application, only a couple of meg, but does the job nicely, keeps decent quality as well

dvd decryptor to rip to the hard drive, handbrake to convert said rip to avi or mp4. they are both free downloads online - google them.

i'm currently in the process of doing my 500 dvd's with this method and there is no noticable loss in quality.

mind you when you have approx 5 Terrabytes in hard drive space, and a way to stream to the TV, this option becomes more desirable!

mr_smooth81 wrote:dvd decryptor to rip to the hard drive, handbrake to convert said rip to avi or mp4. they are both free downloads online - google them.

i'm currently in the process of doing my 500 dvd's with this method and there is no noticable loss in quality.

mind you when you have approx 5 Terrabytes in hard drive space, and a way to stream to the TV, this option becomes more desirable!

Streaming from the computer onto the TV via the PS3 FTW

Melb 57
Adel 41

Another awesome ripper.

AceLosesPants wrote:Melb 57
Adel 41

Another awesome ripper.

um what?

mr_smooth81 wrote:handbrake to convert said rip to avi or mp4

handbrake is a good program as well, i also use this

bennymocha wrote:

mr_smooth81 wrote:dvd decryptor to rip to the hard drive, handbrake to convert said rip to avi or mp4. they are both free downloads online - google them.

i'm currently in the process of doing my 500 dvd's with this method and there is no noticable loss in quality.

mind you when you have approx 5 Terrabytes in hard drive space, and a way to stream to the TV, this option becomes more desirable!

Streaming from the computer onto the TV via the PS3 FTW

let me put it this way

xbox 360 + windows 7 pc + windows media centre 7 + media browser addon + internet = total awesomeness

Like, ya know, a joke.

imho, for the price of blank dvds, there is not much point ripping a dvd unless you want to put it on your iPod or whatever...

If thats is the case, there have been some good x264 rippers mentioned above, like Handbrake.
For more output formats, 'Next DVD Ripper' is very good. Laughably, the only thing I can see that the commercial version does that the free version doesnt, is automatically provide settings for specific devices like iPod... You can still set them manually in the free version
Only drawback with Next is no DivX support, but meh...
Hadn't actually used Handbrake before, so I downloaded after above suggestions, and it does seem to offer more advanced x264 options, but I am not sure that wou will ever need them Gundog, or understand half of them, I sure don't (wtf are pyramidal B-frames?)
'Next DVD Ripper' has a very simple and easy interface with a heap of preset output formats.


To copy DVDs, I think DVD Shrink with DVD Decrypter is an extremely easy solution. My Grandma does it all the time, once I set shrink to auto burn using decrypter

I dont do much converting, but does dumping to the HDD first actually speed things up mr_smooth? I assume you referring to the 'File' mode of DVD Decrypter for the 1st phase?

Hmmm, WTF.
DVD Decrypter :: Help ->'Visit DVD Decrypter Homepage'
Opens....

Been a domain change?