Hey, what's the easiest and fastest way to rip dvds?
I tried iRipDVD but it took about 24 hours on my ibook g4.
btw, this is not illegal because once I buy the dvd, I can do anything with it. I want to put them on my computer so don't have to bring the dvds.
Steve.
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Post a review after you try it. It's the bomb.
Besides, I wanted something that could make it into a DivX file.
any other alternatives?
Thanks
Originally posted by cybermonkey
Well, theres handbrake which will rip an encrpted dvd, or you can use dvdbackup to decode the dvd which will give you an uncompress 7gig video_ts folder which you can then encode with divx or DVDibbler which does the same as handbrake and gives really good results, for instance i got a dvd down to 676mb with perfect audio sync. You can find these on versiontracker
How long will it take?
Though DVDibbler does give me better results with audio sync and a slightly smaller file size and a lot easier to use so i dont care about the extra time.
edit: You may need the 3ivx codec installed for divx in quicktime. If your having problems with audio sync after your compression you can get divx doctor from the 3ivx site which will correctly sync the audio in .AVI generated files, but will enalarge the overall file size to about a gig.
2)Run DVD2One
3)Burn with Toast
That is the absolute fastest method, and the quality beats most other methods too.
Why would the windows version be ?40 and the OSX version be ?50?
Originally posted by cybermonkey
Also the most expensive!!
Why would the windows version be ?40 and the OSX version be ?50?
Because there is 1/10 of the market for mac if not less. They had to put the time into porting it over just for a small market. Give support and praise where it is deserved.
I just want to generate a .avi divx file. I don't want to burn it on cd or anything.
1. Get Quicktime Pro and the Quicktime mpeg-2 decoder.
2. De-copy-protect a movie with DVDBackup.
3. Open the DVD in Quicktime.
4. Compress and save as mp4 (or any other format supported by Quicktime).
I haven't tried this, but it seems like it should work, as long as you have the mpeg-2 player to open the DVD as well as Quicktime Pro to save and compress the file.
Originally posted by BRussell
Has anyone tried this:
1. Get Quicktime Pro and the Quicktime mpeg-2 decoder.
2. De-copy-protect a movie with DVDBackup.
3. Open the DVD in Quicktime.
4. Compress and save as mp4 (or any other format supported by Quicktime).
I haven't tried this, but it seems like it should work, as long as you have the mpeg-2 player to open the DVD as well as Quicktime Pro to save and compress the file.
This only works for the video. The quicktime component does'nt support the AC3 audio that is on all encrypted dvd's. Hence the need for divx to convert the sound into MP3.
Handbrake looks the best, I'm going to try it today for speed. OpenShiiva sucks because it won't handle DVDs with episodes, like Family Guy, neither will iRipDVD or whatever. Or it won't handle VIDEO_TS folders. I forget which, but they're currently useless until they can do those things.
Ah but I like just wholesale copying with DVD2OneX DVDBackup and Toast. Most compatible, highest quality, and DVD-R is finally coming down in price.
Here:
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gtg722g/dvdriptutorial/
Sorry I was looking for a topic about ripping DVDs and look who it is asking.. ;-) Anyway, the tutorial can be downloaded which is nice.
Keep in touch, huh. Oh and congrats on your new iBook G4, I guess I'm going to have to buy a new laptop now...
Dale
P.S. I also set you an email
ffmpegX
I've used it and I think it's the best. You can do all that you want with it.
The interface sux, but hey, it's very fast and quite good.
Steve.
Thanks for the email dale! How are things going?
handbrake.m0k.org.
AND it has funky useless GL effects
thanks.