PCs & Mobiles Forum - ripping software? - Page 1

DVDFab have a free ripper that is excellent.

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DVDFab Passkey (free) is good to get around the DVD protection.

Then, with that installed, I'd recommend using Handbrake for the encoding.
I'd go for the  H.264 video codec, AC3 for audio and contained within an MKV.

As for size / quality. You need to play around with it to get the best settings for you.
Also, using a VBR for video is nest, ensuring then that you do a 2-pass job on it.

thanks guys...

one more question, it's going to be a slow process isn't it?

Ste
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Hell yeah

It took me months to convert my DVD collection.
What's the spec of the machine you'll be converting on? (CPU and disk are most important)

Original thread about it here:
http://www.reviewer.co.uk/Forums/General/t766377/Thinking_of_ripping_my_entire_DVD_collection_to_a_hard_drive/page1

This item was edited on Saturday, 8th October 2011, 16:10

not too good tbh.

samsung lappy with 4GB ram and a pentium dual core cpu (2.1Ghz i think).

Ste
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Step 1: Make list of content wishing to transfer,
Step 2: Email said list to person named later in posting,
Step 3: Await return email confirming (x) titles exist between both collections and can be transferred.
Step 4: Send storage device (e.g.: hard drive ) to aforementioned and later named person,
Step 5: Await return of hardware with (x) content pre-encoded for your perusal
Step 6: If person named gets stroppy then engage in conversation about Daughter and praise highly thus deflecting possible conflict and allowing platform to puff chest out once more

Step 7: Send "thank you" letter to Miles n promise him a beer sometime

(hides before Miles stomps on me 'ead )

(P.S) J/K before the entire forum starts sending Miles hard drives! Lol

Jimbo : oÞ

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You know what I said to my boss (knowing that he was the one who decided my salary & bonus) who asked for the same thing?

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ste_p0270 says...
pentium dual core cpu (2.1Ghz i think).You are going to struggle with that mate.

My desktop Intel C2D E6600 (2 x 2.4GHz) manages around 25fps on H.264 encodes (second pass).
The first pass runs at around 50fps (choosing the turbo first pass option).

That means a 1h30m movie takes a good 2-3 hours+ to produce a good quality encode.

By contrast, my Macbook Pro (quad core i7 @ 2Ghz) pushes 130fps on the first pass and 60fps on the second.

whoosh.....

feck it... think i'll save 'em as iso's (the media player plays those too)

i know the file size will be bigger and will fill up the drive quicker, but the
"ripping" process will be considerably quicker.

Ste
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