DVD to ISO software?

Skunkworks

Skunkworks

Skunkworks

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I'm looking to put a few DVDs onto my PlayOn HD. AVIs are fine for films, but for a TV series I'd like to keep the convenience of the menus.

Any suggestions?
 
DVD Shrink will do what you need. You can remove the subs and extra languages and still keep the menus. I used to do exactly what you want for another player.
 
If your media player is any good it should have all the menu's you need for selecting the episodes? Free players like XBMC also put the HD fanart on behind the episode pics so it looks similar (if not better) than any DVD menu.

I switched to XBMC and soon couldn't stand the hassle of DVDs any more with their long anti-piracy messages and low resolutions (compared to HD/bluray etc). AVI's/MKV's for everything is the way forward. Honestly, I don't miss DVD menu's one bit.

Not to mention that the compression on DVD sucks compared to what you can get now with x264 etc.... 4GB for SD quality film is such a waste of your HDD space... you can get bluray quality compressed into that size.

*now with ninja edits ;)
 
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Mujja said:
DVD Shrink will do what you need. You can remove the subs and extra languages and still keep the menus. I used to do exactly what you want for another player.
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DVD Shrink won't cope with modern copy protection techniques, you would need a decrypter on top for anything produced in the last few years (DVD Shrink stopped being developed in 2004).

I'd recommend DVD Fab http://www.dvdfab.com/, which can extract to ISO. I believe this feature is free although I bought Fab, so can't double check that for you.

However, as Stickman says, ripping the data and encoding is the way to go. I rip with DVD Fab and encode with Handbrake http://handbrake.fr/ into H264+AC3 in MKV. I don't miss DVD menus and certainly don't miss the unskippable crap you have to sit through before you can play the movie!
 
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