DVD Copiying Software?

[rejeeb]

Could you please recommend best s/w for copying DVD content (with full quality)

Thx

 

[ukjeyaraj]

Use DVD Shrink. You can copy with full quality and also compressed quality

 

[arindamcc]

Don't copy buy original. hyeah:

 

[spirovious]

DVDfab is good one too.

 

[sudhishkv]

DVD Decrypter DVD Decrypter

 

[snorkel4u]

A few questions from a Noob in the DVD copy department.

- Do all these softwares have the ability to rip DVDs in various formats? Like DivX, MKV, etc etc?
- Can they rip protected/ copyrighted DVDs as well? If not these, then are there any others which can rip?
- Which is the best format to rip a DVD in so that minimum loss occurs?

 

[Deepchand]

A few questions from a Noob in the DVD copy department.

- Do all these softwares have the ability to rip DVDs in various formats? Like DivX, MKV, etc etc? - Many of the softwares do. I use DAVFAB

- Can they rip protected/ copyrighted DVDs as well? If not these, then are there any others which can rip? - Many do on the fly like dvd43. Many go all the hog by not only decrypting, but also fit to size your 4.5 GB DVD.

- Which is the best format to rip a DVD in so that minimum loss occurs?

- DVD video. Again, loss is DVD specific. Many DVDs sans the FBI warning, trailers etc can actually fit into a 4.5 GB DVD. If you are still worried about loss, split the 9 GB DVD to 2 DVDs of 4.5 GB. DVDFab does it.

Please find my answers next to your questions. PM me if you need any help.

 

[spirovious]

DVD fab can also convert into mobile/ipod format & can rip protected/ copyrighted DVDs/BDs as well.
DVDFab DVD & Blu-ray Copy, DVD Ripper, Blu-ray Ripper Software. Copy DVD, DVDR, Blu-ray Disc to PSP, or iPad/iPhone/iPod. Copy Blu-ray to BD-R, MKV, or Hard Drive.

 

[no1lives4ever]

For all of your VCD/SVCD/DVD/BluRay ripping, copying and format conversion needs, consult the guides on these 2 sites:

1. doom9 - This is one site that has been around for long and has some very good guides. I would highly recommend visiting this site when you are looking at making digital backups of your optical media. Doom9

2. Videohelp Guides - These sometimes have easier to follow step by step guides: Guide, How To, Tutorial and Article list - VideoHelp.com

Most of the tools used by the guides on the above sites are free.

If you want to do things the easy way, then look at tools from SlySoft. SlySoft Products | Copy Movie DVDs with AnyDVD and CloneDVD. Their AnyDVD HD is the standard tool used for BluRay ripping.

-- no1lives4ever

 

[rejeeb]

Thanks a lot for your inputs. I am going to try out the s/w recommended by you.

@arindamcc, I've original DVD's. It is for soft copy backup and also for media player.

 

[no1lives4ever]

Thanks a lot for your inputs. I am going to try out the s/w recommended by you.

@arindamcc, I've original DVD's. It is for soft copy backup and also for media player.

If it is for soft copy, then make sure that you use a ripper that will allow you to rip a full DVD into ISO format or the complete filesystem w/o the CSS encryption.

Also check that you can burn these ripped format back onto recordable DVD that can be played using your DVD player to ensure that you are actually making a backup. If you plan to watch the backups using a media player then again test the backups with your backups. On a PC, you should not have any issues playing a file system copy w/o CSS encryption using most DVD playback software.

I think any basic free ripper should do the job for you. You should not worry about things like multiangle/multi language support unless you want to convert the DVDs into AVI or MKV formats. For format conversion, I would recommend doing a format conversion at full source resolution along with the DTS (if available) and Dolby Digital tracks into MKV using H.264 codec.

-- no1lives4ever

 

[spirovious]

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