Software for ripping DVD

[James_B_Wads2000]

I just got a new computer at home and I want to rip movies and shows off DVD

[Iceaxe]

You need two free programs to make it work.

DVDShrink
http://www.dvdshrink.org

This program will let you copy about 90% of the worlds DVD's to anther DVD or your harddrive. It strips out most copy protections.... orgianal DVD need to be compressed to fit on your standard 4.2 gb dvd and shrink also does this. DVDShrink works best if Nero is your burning software, but it will with all.

You will also need

DVDfab HD Decrypter
http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm

There are two versions... a pay and a free... the free will rip any DVD to your harddrive and strip out all copy protection.... the pay version just has a bunch of other whistles and bells you might one day find useful (like ripping DVD's to your ipod).

After stripping ANY dvd to your harddrive you can use DVDShrink on the files to copy them to a standard 4.2 gb DVD.

Good Luck

[Deathcricket]

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Load up the virtual drive, no need for shrinkage/compression.

Here's link, but most good stuff doesnt work on a Mac, hope you didnt get one of those.

http://www.ed2k-it.com/viewtopic.php...ht=alcohol+120

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[Iceaxe]

If I read the Alcohol stuff correctly you can run it on a "virtual drive" but not burn it to a DVD I can take upstairs and watch on TV?

[Deathcricket]

Correct.

If you wanted to view it on an outside source like a TV, then your way would be the best.

SO my bad... I thought he was wanting to show movies on his new laptop. Didn't see the "transfering to IPOD" part sorry.

And yeah if you're wanting to play on an ipod, who cares what the resolution is, so yeah shrink it way down. Go with Iceaxe's suggestion.

[Sombeech]

I've used a DVD Decrypter for years now. All of the DVDs will decrypt with it and copy to my PC, but it's becoming increasingly hard to burn a copy.

I'll have to look into this Alcohol 120%

[Iceaxe]

but it's becoming increasingly hard to burn a copy.

If the DVD is ripped to the HD you should then have no problem burning them back to disk. The most difficult part of the whole deal is the ripping because of copy protection.

[brookiekiller]

AnyDVD from Slysoft takes most of the decription of a DVD and runs in the background. Slysoft also has a program to automatically convert video files for viewing on a portable device.

I found that running AnyDVD with even a regular program like Nero will open up the possibilities.

[Deathcricket]

Oh one other thing about the alcohol.

it makes a perfect "backup" copy of the DVD/CD. It basically fools your computer into thinking you have the DVD/CD in the drive, only under letter "V", lets say. So it will play no problem on your machine, without the DVD/CD needed. So you can have as many movies there (on your machine) as you have room for. But because it is a perfect copy it will retain the copyright protection.

So if you do want to actually transfer it to another format, you will still need to remove the copyright protection, like others have mentioned.

That was the hardest thing for me to get my head around. But if you want to be a little tricky, you can then map the virtual drives to a networked computer. Lets say your pc running Windows XP media center, and have your entire DVD collection to play perfectly on your bigscreen TV, and everything at your fingertips, no DVD's required. I only have a 100GB HD so I'm limited, but I'm sure thats not a limitation for most people.

Or James could have his laptop go wireless to his PC and watch movies chilling on the couch.

So many possibilities.... Would be curious to hear what you guys end up doing. I'm just not a big fan of the IPOD cause the screen is so tiny. Laptop is "almost" as portable and far superior IMO.