[SOLVED] No-brainer guide to ripping DVD movie?

[gillesg]

Hello

I know nothing about ripping movies, and would to find a very simple, step-by-step, single guide that would explain how to rip a movie on DVD on Windows (XP, Vista), including the different sound files + sub-titles (as external SRT files or included in the AVI file itself), and turn this whole into a 700MB ISO file for burning on a CD-R(W)... and without spending days trying to figure it out :-)

All the guides I found focus on separate aspects of the process, while I'd like a big-picture, 5mn-guide to get the job done.

Thank you.

[7ekno]

Download and purchase DVDFab, it's the easiest DVD to AVI program you will find ;)

Quality is not all that great, audio is sometimes out of sync (probably due to lack of indexing), but it's a solid "all-in-one" or "no-brainer" application ...

7ek

[gillesg]

Thanks but watching a movie with sound/picture out of sync won't do ;) Is there a slightly more involved application or combination of applications that I could try?

[gillesg]

For those looking for the same thing, I had success ripping some movies on DVD's using this combination:

1. "DVD Decrypter" to rip files from the DVD onto a hard-disk
2. "Handbrake" to turn those files into a compressed, MPEG-4 file.

Handbrake is able to perform the two steps itself, but I got an error while it was ripping files, but it could just be my setup.

[Ghitulescu]

All the guides I found focus on separate aspects of the process, while I'd like a big-picture, 5mn-guide to get the job done.


1. "DVD Decrypter" to rip files from the DVD onto a hard-disk
2. "Handbrake" to turn those files into a compressed, MPEG-4 file.

Well, the steps you discovered were sort of ehm a matter of obviousness. Open door, take beer, close door? Have you checked the real old threads and guides, around 98-99 (last millenium)?

Neither DVD ripping nor DVD to AVI are 5 minutes issues, thus the various guides on how a DVD can be properly ripped (ppl around here say that DVD Decrypter cannot be used on newer titles - so your 5min guide is faulty) and even more guides on how to properly encode a DVD into an AVI (deinterlacing, IVTC, cropping and aspect ratio being hot issues).

In your case, step 1 can easily turn into a whole week testing (should DVD decrypter not work on the original DVD) while step 2 can easily need months of parametrising handbrake for optimal quality.

Easy, fast and no brain are attributes of software that one finds in google :)