DVDFab Down Side?

[Clownzer]

Hey guys
I have been a DVDD lover since it first was in the race with SmartRipper. Until I have recently gotten in Asian movies I have never had a problem with it in conjuction with Anydvd. It seems now I am running into I/O Errors more and more that it is forcing me to look else where for a program to rip my dvds with.

This lead me to DVDFab. I ran through a movie I was having problems with using DVDD (with or without AnyDVD) with no problem at all. Since I store my backups on my server I keep them in DVD9 mode so I simply imged the extracted folders and wha-la back to an iso!

Now this seemed extremely to simple to be true!?! Is that all you have to do with DVDFab? Is there any downsides to doing it this way vs DVDD+AnyDVD? The movie appears to play fine with everything there. Also is it worth upgrading DVDFab if I am simply wanting a perfect DVD image (DVD9 or DVD5 what ever the dvd happens to be) stored on my hard drive to view later. So I am needing no downsampling or anything else?

Thanks for all your help!

Clownzer :goodpost:

[setarip_old]

As I see it (Others may have differing opinions), the only "downside" regarding using DVDFab Decrypter as you've stated, specifically to rip full, uncompressed DVDs to your hard drive, would be that this program supposedly automatically replaces sectors it can't read with "dummy' sectors. On one hand, that might allow you to make very usable backups of otherwise "unrippable" damaged DVDs. On the other hand, backing up such a damaged DVD in this manner may result in a non-usable backup with intermittent stops, etc. Certainly, the price (freeware) is right ;>}

[Clownzer]

Ahh I see so it would just "skip" over sectors it could not read? Do you know if the pay versions give you more control over this program in order to see what it is actualy doing (inserting dummy sectors etc). Thanks.