Best DVD Ripper?

MadFruit

MadFruit

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I need a bit of advice on ripping my DVD collection into a digital form. I want to move my collection of DVDs onto my HDD since I am emigrating later this year. I don't want to ship these, but will be keeping them in the 'rents loft.

I've got about 300 movies and then a bunch of TV series to do - so I want something that will be quick, fire and forget and get a good compression ratio (less than a gig per DVD). No idea how far I get before I get really bored and give up ;)

Is there a decent tool that can get all of this done with a single click of a button - something with an audible ding when it's done would be good too ;)

The target will be an external HDD - probably via USB2 too - so would this slow down ripping rate if I ripped directly to that?

Oh, and finally, a good CD ripper recommendations too would be nice ;) Think I just used Media Player last time... anything better?
 
You are never going to get <Gb per DVD9 at a respectable quality!

Personally I'd grab a 3TB drive (£85) and simply ripp all your films to it using DVDShrink NO COMPRESSION DVD9 iso's!
That way will be both the fastest and best quality (lossless exact clones of the discs)

You can save some space by not including foreign languages during the DVDShrink ISO creation.
Also doing it this way means you get to keep the DVD Menus, Extras and all the other goodies that came with the DVD :-)
Hard drives are so big and cheap nowadays that the only things worth encoding are blu-rays as they can be silly big at 45+GB:eek:
 
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I'd use MakeMKV and extract each movie/episode into a separate mkv file - taking only the main title & audio.

This will give you most flexibility and compatibility when using stuff like XBMC to view it later.

If you then feel you need to compress it to save space, use something like Handbrake in batch mode once you've already got your MKV files.
 
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I'd use MakeMKV and extract each movie/episode into a separate mkv file - taking only the main title & audio.

This will give you most flexibility and compatibility when using stuff like XBMC to view it later.

If you then feel you need to compress it to save space, use something like Handbrake in batch mode once you've already got your MKV files.
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Seconded.
 
As per the methods mentioned but be aware even the quickest method is around 20 mins to rip the DVD then perhaps another 15-20 mins to shrink depends on how much you leave off the shrunken image. File size using DVD shrink is around 700mb per DVD9 @ 1.5-2hrs.

On average allow around 45-60mins per DVD its not click & forget either you need to intervene unless you can script it all & sometimes the DVD will not rip so you need to use another program to decrypt what is preventing this.

For 300 DVD's its quite a big time sink to do it properly I would just reconsider how many you will actually watch anytime soon otherwise you will spend a few weeks on this!
 
Thanks for the advice guys. I already got MakeMKV and handbrake, but was hoping for something smaller (file size) and one-clickable :\
 
I used to use DVD Decrypter years back. It's worth mentioning that such software is only intended for backing up DVD's however as I'm sure you are aware.
 
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I just want to copy my best DVD films and put them onto my hard drive so I can watch them on my WD Live unit! Anyone?
 
koolpc said:
I just want to copy my best DVD films and put them onto my hard drive so I can watch them on my WD Live unit! Anyone?
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Have you not read ALL the above posts that have all pretty much answered your question?

DVD SHRINK
MakeMKV

Also you could go for FORMAT FACTORY to convert videos to make them compatible with whatever you want them to be.
 
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