high quality dvd ripping software needed?

Colbaker · 14 Jan 2008 at 11:31

Hi, I am planning on ripping all of my dvd collection and storing it on my medai server, what i want to do is keep it as high quality as possible, i don't really want to convert it to divx, is there any good software that will work on vista prem 64bit, take advantage of dual core's and will convert a dvd into a single VOB file?.

Thanks

HEADRAT · 14 Jan 2008 at 11:34

As you are ripping and not re-encoding the major factor will be how fast you DVD-ROM can transfer the data

Colbaker · 14 Jan 2008 at 11:39

yeh true, not going to encode although may dabble in it a little later but mainly want to rip the dvd into a single VOB file.

Thanks

Tomsk · 14 Jan 2008 at 12:00

DVDSHrink has an option to NOT split the VOBs into 1GB chunks.

ubern00b · 14 Jan 2008 at 12:04

If you want to keep the full DVD structure including extras, menus etc then I suggest reading this guide:

http://a8t8.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2518DD508BB713E8!143.entry

Also an application called "My Movies 2: Movie Collection Management" is excellent and can automount DVD ISO's via daemon tools within VMC.

Just depends how "pretty" you want everything to look within VMC

HEADRAT · 14 Jan 2008 at 12:05

Why do you want to rip to just one VOB?

Colbaker · 14 Jan 2008 at 12:05

yeh ive just tried that and it still seperated them.

C4EVA · 14 Jan 2008 at 12:46

Of course it does :confused:

The DVD Standard states that VOB files cannot be bigger than 1GB, so FAT16 would work fine. No released DVD has a VOB size bigger than 1GB.

If you want to keep things tidy and exact then tell your ripping program to rip the DVD with no compression into a single image file like an ISO!

bledd · 14 Jan 2008 at 12:55

anydvd (install this, but don't use the ripper)
dvd decrypter in ifo mode, disable splitting in the options..

you could also look at ratdvd

ubern00b · 14 Jan 2008 at 12:55

As above, rip to ISO and use http://www.mymovies.dk/ to manage your movie collection as it interacts with Daemon Tools within VMC and will mount/unmount the image as you select to watch a movie in your collection.

Colbaker · 15 Jan 2008 at 12:44

sorry guys i should have told you exactly what i want to do, I am currently running Orb 2.0 on my media server and accessing the media files through the Xbox 360 (not logging into media center on it though), the reason i want 1 VOB file is that the xbox does nto recognize a dvd folder but will play a single vob file, also im not sure it recognises ifo files.

will this mymovies.dk work like this, does it automatically mount the iso?

Thanks

badbob · 15 Jan 2008 at 12:47

I'd just rip the movie and the audio track of your choice, you'll save 2GB+ per movie easily.

no_1_dave · 15 Jan 2008 at 12:52

I did something like this but used Guardian Knot & encoded them to XviD.
I cant even tell the difference between my XviD & DVD versions, there's no quality loss in my eyes.
Takes about an hour on my rig to convert a 90 min film, it unfortunately doesn't take advantage of dual core

badbob · 15 Jan 2008 at 12:54

I certainly can tell the difference when the movie is 700MB. Even at 1.4GB. On a smaller screen (28"-32" CRT) I think 1.4GB will be fine.

bledd · 15 Jan 2008 at 13:09

as i said above

dvddecrypter can rip a film to 1x vob file, use 'ifo mode', it'll scan the ifo's on the disc and copy the vob to your hard drive, can play it by simply opening the vob in your media player