DVD Ripping Software
Aug 23, 2010 | 10:23 pm
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Aug 23, 2010 | 11:21 pm
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I've been using DVD Decrypter for a year or so, and it has worked on most DVDs I wanted to do a backup for.
I have purchased DVD Fab (DVD to DVD option) but currently use only the decrypting part. It has worked with all the DVDs that DVD Decrypter could not rip. So, that is quite an improvement for me.
Nevertheless, there's something I find odd when ripping a full DVD, there is no option to extract to a single file, and the software splits the result into 1GB files, which would not be a problem, IF the order of audio streams (I use at least English, French, director's comments) did not sometimes change from one file to the next. Any thoughts ?
I have purchased DVD Fab (DVD to DVD option) but currently use only the decrypting part. It has worked with all the DVDs that DVD Decrypter could not rip. So, that is quite an improvement for me.
Nevertheless, there's something I find odd when ripping a full DVD, there is no option to extract to a single file, and the software splits the result into 1GB files, which would not be a problem, IF the order of audio streams (I use at least English, French, director's comments) did not sometimes change from one file to the next. Any thoughts ?
Aug 23, 2010 | 11:27 pm
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Aug 24, 2010 | 5:40 am
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I use Video Redo Plus to put the files together. It works for almost all videos (some for some reason don't work). I use it to raise the volume (sometimes the volume isn't high enough) & combine all the files into one. Also, sometimes the language is off. So you can select the stream (usually it's something like x80 for English) and you'll be set.
and it works very nicely when combining VOB files into an MPG file without any re-encoding ^ if it is not needed , but as mentioned on the web site, it can only manage one audio stream when recombining files, while I usually like to have the English, French and director's comment soundtracks in the output file.I'll have a look at MPEG Video Wizard to see if it has the same limitations.
Thanks for your help.
Last edited by JOUY31; Aug 24, 2010 at 6:13 am
Aug 24, 2010 | 8:04 am
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JOUY31 - if you want an MPEG file, might I suggest Handbrake with AnyDVD? It does MPEG4 and is mobile compatible with the iPod touch / iPhone / iPad. I use it on a low-end netbook with VLC and works very well.
Aug 25, 2010 | 1:34 pm
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I've yet to have a DVD that DVD Shrink can't handle and as my laptop is ancient and has only 256Mb of RAM most of the other free progs don't work.
Aug 25, 2010 | 2:57 pm
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Try any modern Disney and any major blockbuster. Guaranteed not to work with Shrink. Also, Shrink keeps the DVD spinning during the entire transcoding process (if that's what's being done) which is a huge strain on the drive.
Aug 25, 2010 | 4:05 pm
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On the Mac side, I've had good luck with Fairmount for DVDs--it's even done a great job with backing up my hard to backup Disney DVDs--but also with MakeMKV, which is crossplatform and handles BD.
http://www.makemkv.com/download/
Timothy
http://www.makemkv.com/download/
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Aug 28, 2010 | 12:58 am
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Aug 30, 2010 | 9:55 am
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Aug 30, 2010 | 4:24 pm
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I've yet to have a DVD that DVD Shrink can't handle and as my laptop is ancient and has only 256Mb of RAM most of the other free progs don't work.
In terms of making one VOB file, I just ripped to ISO. I used VLC Player to watch the ISO. It's much easier to store one file and move it around instead of having to deal with a folder structure. I avoided compressing to MPEG as it loses the menu structure on the DVD.