Please review my ripping methods ...

[jbrooks]

Hello,

My goals are very simple - all I want to do is back up my dvds to single ISO files on my file server, and I want to _make absolutely sure_ that the ISOs I create contain _every part of the DVD_ (all commentaries, menus, subtitles, etc. - EVERYTHING :)

I want to be able to rip the DVDs _once_ and never have to rip them again, and if I want to extract streams or mpegs or sound later, I will use the ISO I made, and just never touch the DVD again.

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So, I am using dvd decryptor, I am using ISO read mode, removing macrovision, and removing RC/E protection. I am not creating a MDS file.

So that's about it - the only other thing is that I am removing the two types of PUO (prohibited user operations) - so in that sense, the ISO is not an absolutely perfect replica of the DVD, since I have removed the prohibitions, but that's ok.

So - given the above procedure, am I correct that I am making a full, and perfect copy of the DVD, and that there is nothing that is on the DVD that I do not have in my .ISO file, and that I might as well just throw out the DVD, because I have absolutely everything on it in my .ISO ?

Any other suggestions ?

thanks!

[Kedirekin]

I'm not absolutely sure, but I think ISOs created by DVDDecrypter are a sector-by-sector copy of the original disk. It removes CSS and POUPs of course, but otherwise it's more-or-less an exact copy.

About the only thing I can think of that may be lost is the exact location of the layer transition (and I do mean 'may' - even that might be recorded).

[theReal]

I have never lost the tiniest part of a DVD using your settings (and I think, hope and believe I never will) :D