Questions on Ripping DVD to USB

[dssxxxx]

Used to rip the DVD's and then watch them on the computer or portable DVD player while on the plane.

Now have a new Netbook.....with no CD/DVD drive.

Would like to rip on my home or office computer and then put on a 8/16 GB USB drive and watch while on the plane or in FL.

Can someone help a guy who's been out of this for a few years?

I do not have any of the old software I used to use, such as DVDFORFREE (I think), etc.

Thanks.

[Guest]

Please use proper thread titles, per forum rule 9.

You can use DVD Decrypter to rip your DVDs to ISO.

[Jeff Flowerday]

DVDFab and rip to folder would also work.

[dssxxxx]

OK......I use DVDFab or DVD Decrypter to put them in ISO.

Once in ISO form, what program would I use to watch them?

Thanks for the quick responses.

[Guest]

Still waiting for you to edit your title...

Use VLC to play the ISO.

[Ghitulescu]

Since any USB HDD is seen by the system [almost] the very same way an internal one is seen (it doesn't matter for you, just for windows internals), and you did this before - I wonder why you ask this question, use the same procedure as before, just use drive E: or F: or whatever drive letter your new HDD has instead of C:.

[dssxxxx]

I used to rip DVD to DVD. Not DVD to USB/HDD.

Just to clarify.

I guess we rip the DVD using DVDFab into a ISO on the USB drive and then watch using VCL.

Correct?

Thanks for the help.

[Ghitulescu]

Unless you have a DVD-RAM*, you can't rip DVD to DVD without temporarly storing the files onto a HDD. And even if you had a DVD-RAM you can't directly rip DVD-9. A lot of DVD-5 are actually a bit larger than a DVDR can hold.

So you are forced to rip the DVDs to a HDD first in the huge majority of cases.

If you have time, please tell me how you managed to do a DVD2DVD rip, I'm really interested since the combined amount of free space on all my external HDDs is less than 10GB (or less than 1 GB per HDD).

*because the DVD-RAM behaves like a HDD while being an agreed DVD standard.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Yeah, ripping to ISO on an external HDD will work fine. That's what I'd do if I was in a hurry and didn't want to re-encode anything.

~MiSfit

[Ghitulescu]

Yeah, ripping to ISO on an external HDD will work fine. That's what I'd do if I was in a hurry and didn't want to re-encode anything.

Make sure it's NTFS-formatted, 'cause you can't have an ISO file on FAT32 if it's bigger than 4GB (usually it is). :p

[A.Fenderson]

I've had DVD Fab (and most any other ripping and/or decrypting program I've tried) "eff" up on me, big time, at one point or another, generally without reporting an error and making believe it had worked just fine. But I have never had a single problem with AnyDVD(HD) when ripping to folders (haven't tried to .iso)--highly recommended. For folder or .iso playback, VLC, as mentioned, is the way to go.