On my old PC I had Handbrake and DVD43 and everything worked well.

I've now got a new PC and DVD43 will not work with Win 7 64bit, so I'm back to square one and may even need to pay for some DVD ripping s/w.

So - any suggestions for paid or unpaid s/w to rip my DVDs

1) To watch on a laptop/pc
2) To watch on my Nexus 7

Thanks!
MP.

(Going back to 32bit is not an option)

I used to use the same combo. I gave in and went with the SlySoft suite.

I could not get DVD43 to work in any form of compatibility mode, which sucks, because it was a good setup. I still use Handbrake for my encoding.

I've used this for years: http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/

I use Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper (it also does DVDs) http://www.blu-ray-dvd-converter.com/blu-ray-ripper/.

They also have a DVD only version. Never tried the Blu-ray software with a DVD drive, but using a Blu-ray drive it rips DVDs.

It works well and has a number of profiles so I can go right from the BluRay/DVD to a format that is optimized for the device I'm going to play it back on. It is a 32bit program but works fine with Win 7, 64-bit.

Right now it is $39.20 for the blu-ray version and $35 for the DVD version.

Best ripper for Windows: DVDFab Decrypter. The DVD part is a misnomer as it also rips BluRay. Totally free and it's updated often so the new copy protection schemes don't pose too much of a problem.

After that, just use Handbrake (or XVid4PSP) to encode. Both are actually just a GUI over the same encoding base. XVid4PSP just lets you choose a bunch of other formats other than just Apple files (like Handbrake).

DVDFab is free?

I somehow had to download a cracked version (8.0) to get things to work. Did I miss something?

Everything works great, but I didn't think you could get away with using a free version.

AFAIK no - after trying many free options, usually needing a second program to change formats, I eventually pony'd up for DVD Fab.

It just works.

I was looking for a good tool to do this for a Nexus 7 as well - check out DVD Catalyst (currently on sale for $10). It works great on Win 7 x64, has a lot of profiles for various devices, and seems to be frequently updated. Pretty easy to use too, just a couple of clicks and you can queue up several movies to be converted.

The basic ripper is 100% free, which is all you really need. You could buy the full version which converts formats for you, but you can get that for free from either Handbrake or XVid4PSP. Both these latter programs do a far better job with a far higher amount of control.

Just google "dvdfab decrypter". Seriously, it's that easy.

AnyDVD works very well.

Thanks for all the advice - I'm running a trial version of the DVDFab Copy+Ripper and all seems OK so far. Even has defaults for the Nexus.

May not be the cheapest, but easy to find and install. I'll try it for a week before I jump in.

I used to use it, but it hasn't worked for me with some of the newer "structure corruption" protection; http://www.videohelp.com/tools/FixVTS (free and tiny) as an additional step has usually fixed those, at the expense of some extra time.

Alternatively, DVDFab Decrypter (which is free, but has some nagware to upsell you to the paid version) tends to be updated for all of those annoyances. I moved to using it ages ago; the paid version also does a nice job of DVD9 to DVD5 conversions, and a so-so job of ripping to MP4/MKV.

For the basic "DVD decrypt to a folder" functionality, yes. (not sure about BluRay)
All the other functionality is paid -- shrinking, transcoding, etc.

As a source of decrypted folders to feed into Handbrake or RipBot264 or DVDShrink, it's good enough in the free mode (on DVDs; not sure about BD.)

I still ended up paying for it; the ability to do transcoding to DVD5/BD5 in a single step was really nice when I was still dealing with physical disks. I'm not sure if I'd bother today -- disk space is so cheap that for my ongoing project to backup all my old DVDs I just put the full DVD9 image on hard drive, and for the occasional BD I buy, the quality out of RipBot (or Handbrake) is so much better that I don't use DVDFab (and another jump in disk space will probably see me go back and start doing full-size backups.)