Looking for an experienced DVD rippers opion on a good tool

[Dalamar]

I have been ripping VCD's for a few years and have got it down pat. Now Im thinking of moving into the wonderfull world of DVD rips. Which software is better, I have read the guides and ifoEdit featured highly, but I see new tools every day with simular features eg DVDtoolbox looks good. Which one is good? am I waisting my time and DVD'd trying an inferior product. I generally stick to the guides as they have served me well, but there seem to be more DVD tools every day..


Regards (fear of falling behind)

Dalamar :(

[int 21h]

http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm

(Hit Control-F and search for 'best')

[markrb]

While you are looking at the forum rules check out rule 9 as well.

Mark

[Dalamar]

OK Ill re-phrase, and add a more meaningful subject line

I believe Doom9's option carries a lot of weight as he has tested several techniques and has formed what he thinks is the best combination of tools. What I’m looking for is his option, or somebody else’s that can give a reason for their opinion eg, "I tried it on XYZ and it didn’t give as good as results as program ABC" or as doom often says, "This is a good product but still lacks some widget that another program has" or "its good but not as fast as something else".


I am not trying to be difficult but I have noticed that most people in the forum will just shoot somebody down and send a bagging reply instead of telling them what they did wrong then, in the spirit of an open forum, answer the question, or at least give an opinion even, as in my case its starts like "Now I cant tell you what is best but I use XYZ and I found....."

Regards
Dalamar

[Ookami]

@Dalamar

Even you've tried, your second posting doesn't say much about what you really want?

DVD -> DVD-5?

What do you want to do?
Do you have time/or not?
What is more important speed or quality?
Do you have the money to buy several expensive products?
How many blank discs you want to use?
etc. etc. etc.

Only, after you've answered these questions (and maybe some more), someone can really try to answer you.

Cheers,

Mijo.

P.s.: Don't trust Kitiara! ;)

[markrb]

If you read up in the DVD Forums you will see that currently there seems to be at least 4 ways to do what you ask. The discussions are many and at times a bit heated. Read these posts for yourself and see if you can come up with something to try yourself. If you have a look at those threads each way has it's drawbacks and benifits and nobody can tell you what is the best for you since only you can decide what is the most important to you.

Currently the major ways are as follows and in no particular order.
The comments in the brackets are only my opinion based on what I have read on the forum.

InstantCopy (fast, good quality)
DVD2One (fastest, lowest quality of the ways listed here)
Manual with CCE (Slowest and most hands on, best quality)
Manual, but using DVD2SVCD for much of it. (Second slowest, slightly less hands on, best quality)

Personally I do the last 2 ways myself, but I plan to try InstantCopy soon.

Mark

[Dalamar]

Thanks for the good advice. I Admit I was a little light on the details but im interested in re-mastering DVD content from a DVD-9 dual layer down to a single DVD eg strip out additional language, Angles and any other extra that dont have much interest. I would like to keep the menus and hand pick special features up to the magic DVD size limit.

Also the standard, remove the warnings and make it region free etc. Ifo edit seems to do these things, but speed isnt as important to me as quality. InstantCopy sounds good but ive noticed lots of problems on the forum? As for the hard slog manual process im use to that trying to get the best picture and sount from VCD, but I prefere kicking it off overnight and checking it in the morning.

Cheers
Dalamar

[Justinus]

And it depends on where you're gonna play that DVD. If you want to play through DVD player, you have to use either CCE or TMPGEnc in order to make a standard-complaint DVD.

If you want to play through DVD ROM in your PC, you better use DivX or Xvid to make your own format (no need for standard since PC can play anything you throw in). Though there's only one DVD player can play DivX at the moment, hopefully there'd be more coming out soon this year. For this method, you can play through a TV-Out if you want but need to keep a resolution standard a bit otherwise the playback movie might look nice.