Software for ripping DVDs

Hi...

Quick question:

I have a lotof movies/ TV shows on DVD. It has been a while since I bought these and now am thinking that it would be best if I kept digital copy on a dedicated HDD for storage - I don't know how long DVDs last and anyways thay take up a lot of space.

Could you please recommend a software that I could use to extract files from the DVD and store them in the above described manner.

It would be very helpful if this software is free, but I could also buy it if it is not very expensive.

Thanks

 

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DEagleson

 

I use DVDDecrypter, I have heard anyDVD is good as well, but its a paid software.

DVD Decrypter

or

SlySoft AnyDVD | any dvd, region free, dvd copy, copy dvd movies, dvd decoder, dvd ripper, macrovision, dvd copying software

 

I've used AnyDVD and CloneDVD for the past few years and love 'em. They're extremely simple to use and though they're not free they have a 21 day fully functional trial period. They're also very quick and reliable with software updates.

 

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll check them out. Also, how long (approx.) does it take to make a copy of a movie on a DVD?

 

Isn't this against forum rules? Expect this thread to be closed soon.

I had used DVD decryptor and it was good.

 

Is it? I did not know. I read the info in the link you provides to the Forum Rules but I don't see how I am violating the rules.

All the DVDs I am referring to are mine. I have bought them in retail shops and if I am not mistaken I have a record of the payments I made - since I paid with my debit card. But if this does indeed violate the rules, then I apologize and am sure the mods will take appropriate action.

 

That's a bit tricky, i suppose it could be against the rules since it can be used for piracy. However,legally speaking making a backup for yourself isn't against the law either so the spirit in which the question was asked shouldn't be against the rules.

 

Most DVD's these days have copy protection, so in order to rip them, you need to remove it using a software, and doing this would be considered illegal. I might be wrong.

 

I speculate that it's against forum rules to discuss ways to pirate DVD's and pirating sofware for the ripping of such. Since backing up DVD's that you own is not an illegal practice, I can't imagine why this thread would be closed.

I used DVDFab for my backing up. Initially, I made ISO's of every DVD, but that takes up a ton of space. A new dvd can be up to 8GB, when the movie itself is only 3-5GB. Then, when you look at the resolution of DVD quality movies, they can easily be compressed to something one-fourth of that size. That's why I use DVDFab, since I don't know the other ones well. It allows me to do a 2 pass from the ISO's and I get a very high quality compression of the DVD. So, I opted to compress my collection and rely on the DVD's themselves to last for a long time. <fingers crossed=""></fingers>

 

This discussion should be fine--it's a well-known strategy to rip a DVD onto your hard drive to watch on a flight, rather than watching directly from the disk (wasting battery life and annoying your neighbor with the loud whirring).

 

The best software for what you want to do, store the DVDs on a hard drive with no re-encoding, is AnyDVD. It will copy the files over from your DVDs stripping the protection.

 

i like makemkv. it allows you to chose the streams, create a nice mkv out of it and doesn't re-encode. 100% the quality of the source, just the movie (and language) you want.

works for bluray, too.

 

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really good dvd ripper.

 

Thanks for the suggestions folks. I have narrowed it down to the following:

makemkv
AnyDVD

I am going to try out both and see which one I feel comfortable with.

 

Davepermen thanks for this AWESOME piece of software!!!

I was looking for something like that for a while! 100% quality in mkv format!

Wonderful!! +1 rep

 

Blu-Ray is fine because it starts out as H.264/MPEG4 or VC-1, but the MPEG2 codec used in DVDs is atrocious as far as disk space usage. There's almost no quality loss doing a single transcode, and you can save half or more of the file size doing so, as long as you can play back H.264 files (they take more CPU/GPU power than the simple MPEG2 streams of DVDs)

 

You are absolutely right! I didn't want to compress my DVD's for the longest time, until I decided that I was wasting over 1TB of space. The DVD's easily compressed to 1/4 the original size, but I chose to use a 2pass transcode from the ISO, so the quality is really great.

 

Thanks for the info. I've been looking for an easier way to do blu-ray. At first the mkv files kept crashing explorer but since disabling thumbnail view in those folders it works a lot better. It'd be nice if it had a preview window like CloneDVD, but the simple blu-ray ripping makes it worth it.

 

i have rather much blurays, tendency growing. and a stable rather small pool of dvds, that are all about one fourth to one fifth of the typical bluray. it really doesn't matter to me. i like the "as long as you can playback h264". you forgot about me having and playing back bluray here, i guess
but yeah, i could compress them. they're not my main storage problem, so i won't. for now. maybe a new codec will arise that'll be even better. then i haven't preprocessed before. anyways, as said. doesn't really matter. storage is cheap.

re-enable thumbnails and fix your codecs, that would be the right thing to do (in my case, shark007, no explorer crashings at all in the actual versions. had some troubles about half a year ago)

 

it isnt illegal to rip dvd's its illegal to distribute or rent or display as a public show.

So how do you guys get your favourite CD's to your generic MP3 player etc.

I use DVD Decrypter. Has never been beaten by any encryption yet.

I have found some DVD's that produce OVERsized VOB files using DVD decrypter. Thats another story.

DVD Fab is quite good to.

 

pengy: it's illegal to circumvent encryption in quite some countries. germany being one. thus it's illegal to rip most dvds, and it's illegal to rip cd's that have a protection on them.
actually i think the law could even use an identity-encryption (a.k.a. no encription at all), but if it states "encrypted" on it, then it's illegal to copy/clone.

illegal depends on who makes the laws, thus, where you are.

i just use makemkv for dvd's, too. but dvd's are mostly past for me, bluray ftw

 

Really?

I did not know that? I thought if you owned the hard copy it was ok to "backup" the item!

ha learn something new every day.

*Goes trawling the internet.

 

breaking security (fairly general) is an illegal act.

and you don't own the movie. you only own the disk. the movie is still property of holliwood or who ever created it. as you're not free to copy it around as will for everyone for free, you're just as well not allowed to break in to get full access to the movie.

but it all depends on the country, of course. but breaking security is in a lot of country an illegal act, even when it's just ripping a dvd to disk. even "just for backup".

i'm glad it isn't like that here. i can abuse it in what ever way i want as long as it's in private. (glad i am that this law doesn't count that way for living things. would be bad if we could do what ever we want with them, as long as it's private).

 

I didn't bother compressing until I got an i7-2600...about 25 minutes in HandBrake to compress to ~30% original size (one pass, q=19.75)...One pass constant Q is definitely the way to go.

 

Updated all the codecs and while it improved, it still crashed explorer every once on awhile. I don't know what the problem was and apparently they haven't figured it out over on their forum either as of a few days ago. I tried some of their work-arounds with no joy. Oh well... I lose.


Anyway... I've since moved on to Handbrake (combined with AnyDVDHD) for blu-rays... although it won't read/add subtitles on BD's. I wish CloneBD would release already!

 

I guess I missed this thread??

I rip with DVDFAB to .VOB native files (free for the rip feature)

Index the .VOB with DGINDEX (FREE)

Encode the AC3 as AAC with NeroAAC (FREE)

Encode the Video as H264 with x264 (Free) (with MeGUI as my GUI)

Extract chapters from the .IFO with MeGUI

I Mux into a .MKV container the AAC, H264, and Chapters to get a file that is about 700-900MB full quality of the original with chapters included.


For Subs... I find them online and download them and then I use Subtitle Workshop (Free) to create a proper sub file and can mux it in with MeGUI or if I cant find good subs to download I use a OCR program to convert the image based subtitles of a DVD into text I use SubRip (Free)


Big things I do is always run a noise reducer (undot) and deinterlace the DVD if its interlaced and crop off any black borders to a sub 16 pixel format.