DVD ripping to hard disk - impossible??

Irf · 27 Nov 2017 at 20:11

Hi all,

I have a NAS (Synology DS213j) that I've only recently figured out how to act as a media server using Plex. That's great, and I can use it for music. However I also want to use it to serve my significant movie collection (R1 and R2), which is on DVD.

So, I have a fairly powerful Win10 machine, but with a USB3 optical drive attached. I have tried the following software:

DVD Fab

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum

AnyDVD

and possibly more that I can't remember the name of. The point is, despite the promises about reliability, etc. they all fail to even read the disc.

The disc I am trialling currently is Hancock (R2).

Can anyone please suggest where I might be going wrong, or even know what extra info I can give to help diagniosis? I have been chasing this with Digiarty (WinDVD) but they keep asking for more and more info, screenshots, ISOs, etc. and I felt I wasn't getting anywhere.

Please help!!

Irf

gpuerrilla · 27 Nov 2017 at 22:36

Apologies for questions in advance. You have it plugged into a dedicated USB 3 port? (Blue inside). You have checked device manager that the controller is listed correctly? Have you used the driver from your mobo site? Finally what does the DVD software detect the device as?

Quartz · 27 Nov 2017 at 22:41

The DVD is undoubtedly copy-protected. And what you are wanting to do may be illegal.

opethdisciple · 27 Nov 2017 at 22:43

Are you able to play the DVD firstly on the PC?

PiKe · 27 Nov 2017 at 22:43

Dvd Decrypter and Handbrake is the only way I have found.

Not exactly a one click method, don't think one exists.

hornetstinger · 27 Nov 2017 at 22:46

You'll probably find 720p h264 to be higher quality for the same size, so why bother with ripped dvd?

PiKe · 27 Nov 2017 at 22:46

hornetstinger said:
You'll probably find 720p h264 to be higher quality for the same size, so why bother with ripped dvd?

Maybe he wants to be semi-legal?

Irf · 27 Nov 2017 at 22:56

@Th0nt: No need to apologise - I posted fully aware that I was supplying scant details, but didn't know what I needed to tell everyone! Yes it's connected into a USB 3.0 port, and the device is detected as a INIC-3609 (whatever that is - probably because it's a cheap generic drive). The ddriver is whatever came with the laptop (a ASUS UX301L).

@Quartz: Thanks. Until I ascertain the legality, I'd appreciate some help working out how to do this, if it's at all possible...

Irf

Irf · 27 Nov 2017 at 22:58

@hornetstinger: Sorry, I don't understand (I'm not a video format expert). All I want to do is move my existing collection of movies onto my NAS so that I can put the discs in the loft for storage.

Irf

bremen1874 · 27 Nov 2017 at 23:18

On the information provided I'd blame the drive.

Are you limited to the single laptop and drive?

Can you deliberately reduce the ripping speed? There certainly used to be software available that would.

opethdisciple · 27 Nov 2017 at 23:43

Imgburn can rip discs.

You could also try dd from the command line to create .iso's of your DVD's.

As long as they aren't copy protected.

Irf · 27 Nov 2017 at 23:54

Update:

I checked the region of this drive in device manager, and it's set to R1! So.... now I've got DVD decrypter working on a R2 movie, and it's going OK I think.

If that was the problem, why on earth didn't the machine pop up a dialogue saying "DVD region incorrect" or similar? Why was it banging on about copy protection?

So unless I can find a way of hackimg my DVD drive to be region free, I'm going to leave it at region 2 to do all my R2 movies, then move to R1 for the rest.

Unless anyine has any better thoughts?

Thanks

Irfan.

bremen1874 · 28 Nov 2017 at 00:00

I'm pretty sure there used to be limit on how many times you could alter a drive's region. It's too long ago to remember the details.

Irf · 28 Nov 2017 at 00:09

4 times, then it gets stuck on the last one. There used to be soemthing called DVD Genie which could help with the s/w lock, but I dunno about the hardware region setting be removed.

Maybe I have to get a R1 drive and an R2 one!!??

ivrytwr3 · 28 Nov 2017 at 07:25

Blimey, i used to do this years ago - i think i had:

https://www.redfox.bz/en/anydvdhd.html - this made your pc region free so you could rip any region DVD.

And then this to rip the DVD to HDD:

http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/

or:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/CD-DVD-Rip-Other-Tools/DVD-Shrink.shtml

Nowadays, on the rare occassion i need to rip a DVD i use this software:

http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_to_dvd/

But tbh, if you own the DVD/Bluray, there are easier 'methods' to obtain movie files in mkv format etc........................

GDL · 28 Nov 2017 at 14:45

I just use MakeMKV and forget about reducing the file sizes.

Drives are cheap.

Code is here: Each new version they update that post so add it to ya faves.
http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1053

Irf · 28 Nov 2017 at 23:42

Hi all,

Just a quick post to close this one down.

Many thanks to those who replied - I really did find your comments useful, and I've explored some of the tools mentioned.

I have now settled, sort of, on DVD Decrypter and then Handbrake as my process. I'd ideally like a one-stop solution, for which I'd have to pay obviously, so will probably look at DVDFab or WinX DVD. Annoyingly both trial versions have restrictions: a logo watermark, and a 5 minute limit on the conversion that can be done. I assume these wil be lfted when using the full version.

Will choose one of these soon I think, but not certain which!

Cheers,

Irf.