DVD ripping

jk_gabba

gabba survivor
Can anyone recommend a good DVD ripper, I'm looking to rip some dvds to small quicktime files, or DVX's ..
 

ome

Well-known member
i cant be bothered with the transcoding to QT or whatever and just rip the image of the dvd onto the hardDrive. space is cheap....

I do this to all my kids dvd so the kids(4yrs) just have to click to view what they want rather than fuck up the dvd. (I have lots of non-disney animation)

On Windows I use:
-'deamon' (a virtual cd/dvd-rom emulator) to mount the image as a DVD (OSX does this natively) - http://www.daemon-tools.cc
-DVD dycrypter to extract DVD and remove protection http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/software2.htm
-vlc is a good dvd player on all platforms if you dont want to use whatever you have....

-I also write a little script in deamon and have bought a little shareware prog that changes the image of each scriptfile (to a picture of a character in the DVD) - so the kids can recognise the film.

www.doom9.org is the place to go for your .nfo on windows/linux boxes.

I cant remember whats out there for osx but its pretty much the same situation: do a search in google and you get 100+ crap pay loads of money software but the opensource community has good solid 'free' non-comersial solutions - just need to know where to look.....
 

nomos

Administrator
In OS X I use a combination of MacTheRipper to rip (obviously) and DVD2One to compress and re-image for burning.

I'm not positive, but I think that FFMPEG is supposed to be a very comprehensive utility for converting ripped video to other formats.
 
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