Captain America DVD copy issue

[Ditleg]

I just got the Captain America 2 DVD. To prevent it from scratch, I wanna make a 1:1 copy of this DVD and play it on my ipad 4. Does anyone have a guide to help me? Thanks!

[Springnow]

I used the app called MacX DVD Ripper Pro (http://www.macxdvd.com/mac-dvd-ripper-pro/). It can backup DVD while keeping the original image quality. You can give it a try.

[Ghitulescu]

I'll be damn, indeed there is such a thing (http://www.convertdvdtoipad.com/).

[foxyshadis]

I'll be damn, indeed there is such a thing (http://www.convertdvdtoipad.com/).

Those ffmpeg-based rip-offs associate themselves to every possible media-related term out there, despite all being the same GUI with different branding. Any pair of "Convert X to Y" will come up with dozens of them, all charging $30-50 for freely available functionality.

Ditleg, just use Handbrake (https://handbrake.fr/). Quick and painless way to get DVDs onto your iPad with maximum quality. (Because the iPad can't directly watch raw DVD backups.) You might need to pair it with DVDFab (http://www.dvdfab.cn/) to remove copy protections first, or just pay for the full version of DVDFab, which has a good converter embedded as well.

[tuco76]

I just got the Captain America 2 DVD. To prevent it from scratch, I wanna make a 1:1 copy of this DVD

+1 for Handbrake easiest solution. Though, in case you meant "1:1" ,like without re-encoding Aud/video streams.-
I'm not familiar with iPad specs, but one option for transferring your untouched streams is MakeMKV. You can change the resulting MKV -file [containing your untouched streams]also into MP4 file, if desired.

But given appropriate settings applied, (check out handbrake wiki)
I'd prefer foxyshadis suggestion as well. Try crf-values ~18 till you get "transparent" result.
The result might look even better than untouched source, no kidding ;)
x264 does magic at times :)

[Ghitulescu]

I am not sure iThings can display "untouched" DVDs.

[tuco76]

I am not sure iThings can display "untouched" DVDs.

Actually, its not about DVD display, he wonts to backup the content to his iThing ;) two possibilities there: untouched method = remultiplexing selected streams from DVD without re-encode, MakeMKV can do this.
Other possibility, transcoding with handbrake the MPEG-2 video with x264 to H.264 (should also reduce filesize ~30%)
As foxyshadis said, handbrake might need DVDFab to remove disc protection.
I'm on W7, handbrake managed to decrypt ca.70% from DVDs I tried, on its own (not always proper though.)