gembriaco
4th November 2002, 22:59
Hi everyone
I'm trying to properly rip DVDs, some of them to be converted to a divX CD-rom with Gknot, some of them to be watched on my PC from my HD with Daemon tools, some of them to ultimately burn to a DVD when I have a burner.
Doom now recommends DVDDecrypter as probably the best ripper, so I followed the advice ;). But between the different modes offered by the current version of this software(file, IFO, ISO), I'm unsure which format to use. I've read the guides in both Doom and the official DVDDecrypter website, but I find this unclear for a newbie and in addition they are not up to date (latest version not documented, for instance).
So, admitting that a user wanting to rip a DVD might have mainly 3 kinds of reasons to do so:
- save it on his HD to watch it later on
- copy it onto a DVD (for instance when 2-layers blank DVDs become available, to overcome the space problem)
- reprocess it (to add subtitles, code it to a different format, or else)
What format should he use in each case? And, depending on his intentions, what should he care about while operating (eg including all sound streams in the file, versus separating them, etc...)?
Thanks for clarifying all this! It could be the prelude to a dummy's guide to ripping... :D
I'm trying to properly rip DVDs, some of them to be converted to a divX CD-rom with Gknot, some of them to be watched on my PC from my HD with Daemon tools, some of them to ultimately burn to a DVD when I have a burner.
Doom now recommends DVDDecrypter as probably the best ripper, so I followed the advice ;). But between the different modes offered by the current version of this software(file, IFO, ISO), I'm unsure which format to use. I've read the guides in both Doom and the official DVDDecrypter website, but I find this unclear for a newbie and in addition they are not up to date (latest version not documented, for instance).
So, admitting that a user wanting to rip a DVD might have mainly 3 kinds of reasons to do so:
- save it on his HD to watch it later on
- copy it onto a DVD (for instance when 2-layers blank DVDs become available, to overcome the space problem)
- reprocess it (to add subtitles, code it to a different format, or else)
What format should he use in each case? And, depending on his intentions, what should he care about while operating (eg including all sound streams in the file, versus separating them, etc...)?
Thanks for clarifying all this! It could be the prelude to a dummy's guide to ripping... :D