Good Tool to Rip a DVD on my PC

[noob4us]

Hello Doom9!

I am looking for a good Tool how to Rip a DVD on my Pc. I know DVD Descrypter, DVDFab a DVDClone. What tools do you use, let me know. Is DVD Descrypter too outdated?

[Groucho2004]

I use AnyDVD. Not free but very good.

[noob4us]

Ok, also AnyDVD and then Copy and Paste the VIDEO_TS Folder on your Harddisk?

[Groucho2004]

Ok, also AnyDVD and then Copy and Paste the VIDEO_TS Folder on your Harddisk?
Exactly.

[hello_hello]

AnyDVD to do the decrypting for me. DVDShrink to re-author the disc while ripping in one step.

Generally I open the disc with DVDShrink and drag the movie title from the right pane to the left in re-author mode, and then use it's backup function which gives you a set of vob files for just the movie, ready to encode. Using the same method for episodic DVDs you can drag the title for each episode from right to left and after ripping you'll have a set of vob files per episode.

Just be sure to go into DVDShrink's options and change the target size setting from DVD5 to something large before using it's backup function. That way DVDShrink will just copy the video instead of re-encoding it.

[hello_hello]

I was going to reply to your DVD to AVI question but I see the thread was closed. Welcome to doom9!

Personally I think AutoGK is still a good choice for Xvid/AVI. I rarely convert to AVI any more and use MeGUI for x264 encoding, but on the odd occasion I do convert to AVI I still use AutoGK. What is it about AutoGK you don't like?

[J_Darnley]

Since the basic encryption on DVDs has not changed since they were created DVD Decrypter still works just fine for most DVDs. For ones that use extra corruption "features" you will need to use something else. I have found RipIt4Me to be sufficient in those cases.

[Ch3vr0n]

Until you find a disc that has structural protection. Pretty sure ripit can't handle that one either, dvdshrink sure can't.

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[hello_hello]

Since the basic encryption on DVDs has not changed since they were created DVD Decrypter still works just fine for most DVDs. For ones that use extra corruption "features" you will need to use something else. I have found RipIt4Me to be sufficient in those cases.

Is that the protection where you open the disc and the ripper thinks there's 50GB worth of files on the disc? If so I've given up using RipIt4Me on them but if you've found a way to do I'd I'd be interested to know. Not that I use RipIt4Me much these days, but knowing how to do it might come in handy one day.

[Ch3vr0n]

That is what structural protection does yes. It makes it appear to windows that there's dozens of gigabytes on a dvd. That's why rippers that rip by fileset rip them too or can't rip em at all like dvdshrink. Only rippers that rip by TITLE SET can rip those such as the anydvd ripper or clonedvd2

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[fryk]

An other tool from the good old times is smartripper (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/SmartRipper). It makes a set of vob files from the dvd, you can also split by chapters. It works very well and really fast. No development since 2001 but good until now.

[Ghitulescu]

Since the basic encryption on DVDs has not changed since they were created DVD Decrypter still works just fine for most DVDs. For ones that use extra corruption "features" you will need to use something else. I have found RipIt4Me to be sufficient in those cases.
True.

That is what structural protection does yes. It makes it appear to windows that there's dozens of gigabytes on a dvd. That's why rippers that rip by fileset rip them too or can't rip em at all like dvdshrink. Only rippers that rip by TITLE SET can rip those such as the anydvd ripper or clonedvd2
Or any dumb ripper like that in the next quoted message.
An other tool from the good old times is smartripper (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/SmartRipper). It makes a set of vob files from the dvd, you can also split by chapters. It works very well and really fast. No development since 2001 but good until now.
Unfortunatelly SmartRipper, which I still use, cannot deal with protected sectors (Sony, Disney).

The general issue with the rippers is that software like AnyDVD or DVDfab shifted the "intelligence" from the user to the software. I see no big deal that any 7 years old kid is the hacker of the neighbourhood because he just downloaded the latest version of this software and ripped brainlessly a DVD.

The fundamental flaw in the DVD design is that, due to technical restrictions of that time, the structure description was not encrypted, neither the audio, and ony minor parts of the video. The BD corrected this error. So it's easy to decrypt a DVD because you know beforehand how the result look like.
The importance in praxis of this is that basically one needs to correctly rip the VOBs (paying attention to the defective sectors) to the HDD, maybe to copy the original IFOs (not encrypted) if needed and edit the DVD by hand with various tools, like PGCedit, IFOedit, VOBBlanker and the like. Yes, a little work, but this work I do myself anyway, since I am "disinfecting" the DVD from all the trailers, logos and FBI warnings.

So far I was never in need to add any of these AnyDVD like tools on my computer, ri4m and stuff being my "bear necessities".