DVD ripping software

[Pauly S]

Hi All,
can anybody recommend some decent software to put my dvds onto a hard drive, that doesnt take forever and to convert to a high quality format?
Some of the "electronic" vids i have are MKV format and they play great ,i also have them in AVI, whilst this makes for a smaller file there is an obvious loss of quality.
So what do you know?
Ive tried handbrake but that was sooooo slooooow.
Ive about 200 vids i want to make "electronic" so i can then give them away to make space.
cheers Paul

 

[PeeBee]

Freemake Video Converter is a reasonable program; fairly quick and decent sizes.

 

[JonL]

You didn't say what platform you are on. If you are Mac, this works very well (I converted about 150 DVDs and the only ones that didn't work were children buggered up):

http://www.macxdvd.com/mac-dvd-ripper-pro/

Full products here (including windows version at the bottom of the page):

http://www.macxdvd.com/product.htm

 

[Deleted account 181015003]

Slightly different way using a Windows PC is to burn the DVD to a ISO file (image burn) and use a Virtual CD DVD program (magic ISO Virtual DVD) to play the ISO image no conversion is needed my laptop does not have a DVD drive its a ultra book thingy so use it this way to get round the problem of programs that need the disc to run (eg the latest version of BMW Repair and Service Data (RSD) )

My computer shows the image when loaded as a DVD drive and I just click on the icon to run the ISO you can load more than one ISO at a time so my computer has a load of DVD drives ready to go keeps the original discs safe and the image always ready for use.

 

[Deleted account 190920001]

When it comes to video the length of time it takes is directly proportional to the hardware. For example on my server it takes around 25 minutes to encode a 2 hour dvd to mp4 using Handbrake. The same thing on my laptop takes hours.
If you don't have access to a powerful machine you are always going to have to wait. 99% of software out there use the same backend (ffmpeg) to encode the video so all they are really offering is a fancy front end and offer no advantage speed wise over another.

 

[Pauly S]

Format

Sorry forgot that, its windows 7, thanks for the tips so far!

 

[Pauly S]

You didn't say what platform you are on. If you are Mac, this works very well (I converted about 150 DVDs and the only ones that didn't work were children buggered up):

http://www.macxdvd.com/mac-dvd-ripper-pro/

Full products here (including windows version at the bottom of the page):

http://www.macxdvd.com/product.htm

Any ideas how long to convert using mac x?

 

[Dansin]

I use MakeMKV to rip blurays. Then I use Handbrake to compress the video file and then mkvmerge to combine the compressed video with the uncompressed audio (and subs if required). Whole process takes about two hours for a bluray which ends up at four to six gig.

As already stated, the biggest limiting factor will be hardware.

 

[JonL]

Any ideas how long to convert using mac x?

As above, depends on the computer. On a Macbook Air it took about 20-30 minutes per film. I can't be bothered to learn all of the technical knowhow for ripping and was happy to pay for something that is regularly updated and has an idiot-easy interface.

 

[Pauly S]

many years ago on prehistoric hardware I was copying dvds(purely for back up purposes),in about 7 mins using dvd shrink, the problem is with that program is it leaves the file in numerous chapters.
Ive now got a 2TB lacie player LINKY,and I wanted to put them on that, hence the software needed.

 

[Deleted account 190920001]

Dvd shrink did just that. It fitted a 2 layer dvd into one and made it into files on your hard drive. It wasn't changing file formats and reencoding which it massively more processor intensive so takes a lot longer. Even a modern i3 processor will take a lot longer than an i7. There is no way around this when it comes to video unfortunately.
What you are writing the file to can also slow things down a lot. USB external drives are a lot slower to write to than an internal hard drive for example.
How much you crunch the video also has a big affect on how long it takes. I use a custom profile in Handbrake for my above times. It is affectively full video quality/resolution with AC3 and DTS pass through as well as an mp3 stereo down mix. It results in about 1GB per hour video file size and has no perceptible visual difference from the original.

 

[Dean Schley]

If you don't want to keep the complete DVD, really easy, quick and keeping 100% of Picture and Sound quality is AppGeeker DVD Ripper.

http://www.appgeeker.com/convert/rip-dvd-to-mp4-mac.html (both Mac and PC platform available)

With it the Main Movie (and some specials, if you want them) is stored in a single MP4 container (h.264 codec), keeping all wanted Audio and subtitle tracks, removing all tracks you don't want to keep (e.g. some "exotic" subtitles). The resulting video is slightly smaller than the DVD itself (due to the lost of some unwanted stuff).

 

[Titto]

Makemkv and Handbrake

All you need. Mac or PC.

 

[Pauly S]

many thanks

Dvd shrink did just that. It fitted a 2 layer dvd into one and made it into files on your hard drive. It wasn't changing file formats and reencoding which it massively more processor intensive so takes a lot longer. Even a modern i3 processor will take a lot longer than an i7. There is no way around this when it comes to video unfortunately.
What you are writing the file to can also slow things down a lot. USB external drives are a lot slower to write to than an internal hard drive for example.
How much you crunch the video also has a big affect on how long it takes. I use a custom profile in Handbrake for my above times. It is affectively full video quality/resolution with AC3 and DTS pass through as well as an mp3 stereo down mix. It results in about 1GB per hour video file size and has no perceptible visual difference from the original.

Thanks Mark

If you don't want to keep the complete DVD, really easy, quick and keeping 100% of Picture and Sound quality is AppGeeker DVD Ripper.

http://www.appgeeker.com/convert/rip-dvd-to-mp4-mac.html (both Mac and PC platform available)

With it the Main Movie (and some specials, if you want them) is stored in a single MP4 container (h.264 codec), keeping all wanted Audio and subtitle tracks, removing all tracks you don't want to keep (e.g. some "exotic" subtitles). The resulting video is slightly smaller than the DVD itself (due to the lost of some unwanted stuff).

Thaks Dean

Makemkv and Handbrake

All you need. Mac or PC.

Thanks Dude

 

[Pauly S]

Thanks to all for helping, i just need my new pc to be delivered back and i'm rippin!

 

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