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2/23/2012 4:17:47 PM EDT
I just tried using dvd fab and it seems to work OK.  It puts a big "DVD Fab" slogan on the first 5 minutes of your movie and for some reason I can't turn the subtitles off.



Does anyone have any good FREE software that easily allows them to rip a dvd to their computer?
2/23/2012 4:19:07 PM EDT
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Everyone please be cognizant of the Code of Conduct in this thread
2/23/2012 4:22:10 PM EDT
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handbrake
2/23/2012 4:26:20 PM EDT
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handbrake

What he said, but louder
2/23/2012 4:26:31 PM EDT
[#4]
Brasero Disk Birner
DVD encoder OGM Rip

Both free
2/23/2012 4:28:46 PM EDT
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Everyone please be cognizant of the Code of Conduct in this thread


What you need is a good place to download exactly what you need...





...which is Handbrake.



 
2/23/2012 4:29:48 PM EDT
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makemkv , faster better and the future of video format
2/23/2012 4:33:37 PM EDT
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Checking out this "handbrake" that you people speak of...
2/23/2012 4:43:23 PM EDT
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makemkv , faster better and the future of video format


MakeMKV is not free its shareware.



Slysoft AnyDVD HD isn't free either but I am going to mention it anyway because it is the easiest and as far as I am concerned the best DVD/Blueray ripper on the market.



 
2/23/2012 4:46:22 PM EDT
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I think its silly so often when these threads .come up.
 
2/23/2012 4:46:48 PM EDT
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check out this site

doom9.org
2/23/2012 4:48:46 PM EDT
[#11]
Never seen that problem with the DVD Fab. Is this a free demo version or is it a paid version?
2/23/2012 4:50:43 PM EDT
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I use DVDfab but rip to iso. You get all the data (menus, subtitles, easter eggs, etc). Downside is storage space might become a concern down the road, each rip is around 4 gigs for standard DVD's.

Tried AnyDVD and didn't like it much, found DVDFab easier to use.

Handbrake will work but you have to decrypt the DVD first, something like DVD43 (?) works. I prefer the one step of DVDFab.
2/23/2012 4:53:05 PM EDT
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Never seen that problem with the DVD Fab. Is this a free demo version or is it a paid version?


demo version

 
2/23/2012 5:03:41 PM EDT
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what kind of ripping? like the kind that will fit the DVD onto a CD (~700 MB) or the kind that rips it full disk format (4.x gig)?
2/23/2012 5:30:57 PM EDT
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what kind of ripping? like the kind that will fit the DVD onto a CD (~700 MB) or the kind that rips it full disk format (4.x gig)?


Full movie onto HD.  I have plenty of space and it's cheaper than buying blank cd's.  Ideally I'd like to just use my computer and stream it direct to my xbox360.

 
2/23/2012 5:52:34 PM EDT
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what kind of ripping? like the kind that will fit the DVD onto a CD (~700 MB) or the kind that rips it full disk format (4.x gig)?


Full movie onto HD.  I have plenty of space and it's cheaper than buying blank cd's.  Ideally I'd like to just use my computer and stream it direct to my xbox360.  


First you'll want to figure out the formats that your 360 will stream. I *think* that MPEG4 will work, so you should be fine with Handbrake.





 
2/23/2012 5:59:38 PM EDT
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Never seen that problem with the DVD Fab. Is this a free demo version or is it a paid version?

demo version  


You use a demo and you should expect there to be some ads.
2/23/2012 6:00:15 PM EDT
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another vote for MakeMKV.  i've been using it for over a year without having to pay.  the maker posts a code on the forum every month to keep it activated
 
2/23/2012 6:23:41 PM EDT
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I just tried using dvd fab and it seems to work OK.  It puts a big "DVD Fab" slogan on the first 5 minutes of your movie and for some reason I can't turn the subtitles off.

Does anyone have any good FREE software that easily allows them to rip a dvd to their computer?

You are not using the free version portion of DVD Fab. One can use the free DVDFab HD Decrypter portion of DVDFab to rip the DVD to the hard drive, then use Handbrake to convert to MP4 or MKV for loading onto the iPad, iPhone or other devices or storage media.

To rip with the free HD Decrypter, launch DVDFab, insert the DVD disc into your DVD drive, after DVD Fab scans the disc, select "Full Disc" from the menu list on the left side. Then select the "Target" field and change the location to "C\Documents and Settings\<user name>\My documents\DVDFab\" for Windows XP, or "C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\DVDFab\" for Windows 7. Then hit the "Start" button and let the program rip the DVD to the hard drive. Once ripped you can use Handbrake to load the ripped content from the  "C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\My Documents\DVDFab\FullDisc\<disc name>" or "C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\DVDFab\FullDisc\<disc name>" folder.

Once ripped to the hard drive one could also use the free DVD Shrink to reduce the content (if needed) so the backed up DVD will fit onto a single DVD5 DVD-R or DVD+R disc.

2/23/2012 6:31:00 PM EDT
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+1 for Handbrake.

I have used it to convert my entire DVD collection to digital for playing on the Xbox 360 and through my computer. SD movies come out anywhere from 700mb to 1.5gb or so depending on length and settings. Works pretty great.
2/23/2012 8:01:30 PM EDT
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Holy balls... 7 hours to rip a dvd using handbrake?  Anyone have any ideas to make it go faster?
2/23/2012 8:04:53 PM EDT
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Once ripped to the hard drive one could also use the free DVD Shrink to reduce the content (if needed) so the backed up DVD will fit onto a single DVD5 DVD-R or DVD+R disc.



DVD Shrink will also rip directly from a DVD to ISO format.  I don't know if PS3s can take ISOs, as I do not have a game console.  DVD Shrink has rudimentary decryption but it cannot be used to rip modern copy-protected DVDs (so we are safe from the CoC standpoint).
2/24/2012 6:12:48 AM EDT
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Once ripped to the hard drive one could also use the free DVD Shrink to reduce the content (if needed) so the backed up DVD will fit onto a single DVD5 DVD-R or DVD+R disc.



DVD Shrink will also rip directly from a DVD to ISO format.  I don't know if PS3s can take ISOs, as I do not have a game console.  DVD Shrink has rudimentary decryption but it cannot be used to rip modern copy-protected DVDs (so we are safe from the CoC standpoint).

Yes it will, that's normally what I use it for if I don't use DVDFab to create the ISO. DVD Shrink will allow a person to burn to a DVD disc if they have Nero installed, or save to an ISO file, or save to a hard drive folder.

Been using the free Giveawayoftheday "DVDFab DVD Copy" version for the last year or so to rip DVD movies to ISO.
2/24/2012 6:15:36 AM EDT
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handbrake

What he said, but louder


yarp all I use..

2/24/2012 6:18:57 AM EDT
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I still use an old copy of RipIt4Me that seems to work quite well.
2/24/2012 6:26:59 AM EDT
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Once ripped to the hard drive one could also use the free DVD Shrink to reduce the content (if needed) so the backed up DVD will fit onto a single DVD5 DVD-R or DVD+R disc.



DVD Shrink will also rip directly from a DVD to ISO format.  I don't know if PS3s can take ISOs, as I do not have a game console.  DVD Shrink has rudimentary decryption but it cannot be used to rip modern copy-protected DVDs (so we are safe from the CoC standpoint).

Yes it will, that's normally what I use it for if I don't use DVDFab to create the ISO. DVD Shrink will allow a person to burn to a DVD disc if they have Nero installed, or save to an ISO file, or save to a hard drive folder.

Been using the free Giveawayoftheday "DVDFab DVD Copy" version for the last year or so to rip DVD movies to ISO.


Yep.  I like IMG Burn to burn ISOs to discs.  I have a DVD/VHS player in my home theater so I can take home movies (non-copy protected) on VHS and transfer them to DVD, then rip to ISO using DVD Shrink.  That way I can have a physical DVD copy in-hand and a ISO copy on my backup HDD in case the DVD copy gets lost or damaged.

2/24/2012 6:28:14 AM EDT
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DVDfab is the best. Not sure what you did to make it do what you said it did though. That would suck.

Ok, guess you were playing with the demo version. Get the CSS version, or whatever they call it now (International?).
2/24/2012 6:29:19 AM EDT
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orly. tag.
2/24/2012 6:30:42 AM EDT
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I use DVDfab but rip to iso. You get all the data (menus, subtitles, easter eggs, etc). Downside is storage space might become a concern down the road, each rip is around 4 gigs for standard DVD's.

Tried AnyDVD and didn't like it much, found DVDFab easier to use.

Handbrake will work but you have to decrypt the DVD first, something like DVD43 (?) works. I prefer the one step of DVDFab.


2 TERABYTE hard drives are $130
2/24/2012 6:32:45 AM EDT
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Holy balls... 7 hours to rip a dvd using handbrake?  Anyone have any ideas to make it go faster?


winx has a free version of their ripper encoder. i ripped about 1/2 my collection of dvds into a 1 gig mp4 files.
2/24/2012 6:33:21 AM EDT
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Interdasted.
2/24/2012 7:42:33 AM EDT
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2 TERABYTE hard drives are $130




Hopefully they'll be back to $80 by summer.


2/24/2012 7:43:16 AM EDT
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I use DVDfab but rip to iso. You get all the data (menus, subtitles, easter eggs, etc). Downside is storage space might become a concern down the road, each rip is around 4 gigs for standard DVD's.

Tried AnyDVD and didn't like it much, found DVDFab easier to use.

Handbrake will work but you have to decrypt the DVD first, something like DVD43 (?) works. I prefer the one step of DVDFab.


2 TERABYTE hard drives are $130


Got a link to that?
2/24/2012 7:45:31 AM EDT
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I think its silly so often when these threads .come up.  


I'd like to say I see what you did there, but I'm colorblind...

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2/24/2012 7:54:30 AM EDT
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Holy balls... 7 hours to rip a dvd using handbrake?  Anyone have any ideas to make it go faster?



Ripping the raw data is about the same speed no matter what with modern DVD drives. Encoding time is entirely dependent on your CPU power. On my machine (Intel Q9550 with 8GB of RAM) it only takes about 45 minutes to rip/encode a full length DVD.


 



ETA:

I run linux, so I have no idea what the Windows offerings provides in either functionality or performance.
2/24/2012 8:05:26 AM EDT
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My i3 2100 machine running windows 7 64 bit does it in about an hour depending on settings.

ETA just ripped a full dvd in 20 min by making an image, transferring it to my 1.5gB storage drive then mounting and ripping it to my raptor 74gig. avg fps 109
2/24/2012 8:25:08 AM EDT
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Just to keep it simple I'm ripping with DVDFab HD-Dycrypter and converting to mkv with MakeMKV.  Both are free.
2/24/2012 8:30:45 AM EDT
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Technically it is illegal to rip DVDs

2/24/2012 8:48:32 AM EDT
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freemake video converter... free download and a great product
2/24/2012 8:54:12 AM EDT
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makemkv , faster better and the future of video format

MakeMKV is not free its shareware.

Slysoft AnyDVD HD isn't free either but I am going to mention it anyway because it is the easiest and as far as I am concerned the best DVD/Blueray ripper on the market.
 

i always just use the free trial.

2/24/2012 9:19:47 AM EDT
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Cucusoft  paid but cheap...  works, fast...
2/24/2012 9:23:32 AM EDT
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Not free, but AnyDVD works great and is updated frequently.

DVD43 is a free alternative, but not as good.  Or you can use DVD Decrypter to break the encryption and then use DVD Shrink to compress.
2/24/2012 10:30:59 AM EDT
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I use DVDfab but rip to iso. You get all the data (menus, subtitles, easter eggs, etc). Downside is storage space might become a concern down the road, each rip is around 4 gigs for standard DVD's.

Tried AnyDVD and didn't like it much, found DVDFab easier to use.

Handbrake will work but you have to decrypt the DVD first, something like DVD43 (?) works. I prefer the one step of DVDFab.


2 TERABYTE hard drives are $130


Got a link to that?


www.compusa.com
2/24/2012 10:57:32 AM EDT
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I use DVDfab but rip to iso. You get all the data (menus, subtitles, easter eggs, etc). Downside is storage space might become a concern down the road, each rip is around 4 gigs for standard DVD's.

Tried AnyDVD and didn't like it much, found DVDFab easier to use.

Handbrake will work but you have to decrypt the DVD first, something like DVD43 (?) works. I prefer the one step of DVDFab.


2 TERABYTE hard drives are $130


Got a link to that?


www.compusa.com tigerdirectsucksballs.com  



Fixed


2/24/2012 10:58:33 AM EDT
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I think its silly so often when these threads .come up.  




I'd like to say I see what you did there, but I'm colorblind...



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All your answers are there. I know guys who have been using their stuff for years.