Can anybody recommend any free DVD ripping software for Windows that works? I want to be able to rip to an avi or other single file format playable by VLC for example.
Handbrake looks like it may do the job as the DVDs I want to rip aren’t copy protected. If I wanted to rip any of my copy protected DVDs what should I use?
Correction, my DVD is copy protected. Handbrake doesn’t see the chapters containing the film even with dvd43 installed, although it does rip the first visible chapters OK. Going to try dvdshrink unless anyone knows the solution to the above?
Been doing the same on and off over the past few weeks since I got a Nexus 7 tablet! Suspect I may get an external USB Blu-Ray player so I can start on a few of them but not sure if the software mentioned in this thread will do Blu-Ray discs!
Any bored developers out there, can I request a one button piece of software that rips a DVD to a single mkv file please as the above process is all a bit faffy. Oh, and it needs to be free. Thanks 😀
Personally, i prefer use handbrake or ffmpeg to rip DVDs to avi, both are open source. but they cant decrypt commercial DVDs. so make sure all your dvds are home-made and legal to rip.
I stumped up the cash and bought WinX DVD ripper platinum. If you like them on Facebook you get a 50% off code. Think it eventually cost me about £17. Worth it in my opinion as it decrypts and rips in one go. Plus there are loads of output formats, audio and video qualities, etc you can set.
“illegal” is a misleading word for it, apologies. Copying a copyrighted work, e.g. a DVD, is a copyright infringement even if you bought the disc in the first place.
are you likely to get caught and taken to court over making small scale copies at home? very unlikely.
I thought making personal copies for backup was now allowed under the latest piracy laws? as a trade of against some of the more draconian measures also implemented, or are they still at the discussion stage?
That does not allow one to make additional copies for use on different devices.
Actually I thought that was included as well, to be honest I remember them discussing the law changes ages ago but can’t recall heering the final implementation.
ps, I got your email, I can’t find those tabs for the tent, I fear I threw them away as I never intended to use them, but will have a proper look in my cellar at weekend where many such items go to die.
has the copright designs and patents act 1988 been updated then, because according to the most recent copy i can find making a copy, unless for one of the permitted exceptions, is an infringement.
Well there isn’t a hope that I am going to buy a digital copy of a film I already own just so I can watch it on my computer (that doesn’t have a DVD drive on it).
Nice to see that Prometheus packaged up a digital download with the Bluray disk I bought though….
Couldn’t you legally store the DVD on another device (as per backup best practice) which happens to be a tablet? Then legally watch it to confirm its integrity?
If you already own the DVD why not just download the divx/avi version from piratebay and save yourself the hassle?
I had considered that but:
1 – I don’t want to get malware
2 – I replace ‘conversion’ hassle with ‘find the right film in the right format and try to download it’ hassle
3 – I don’t want my girls to be 3/4 the way in to Mary Poppins (on the plane to LA) to find it has suddenly changed to Pop It In Mary
If it’s ‘technically’ illegal to change the format of a film you own to one that’s not on a semi-defunct format because you bought the license, not the DVD, surely it’s also illegal to sell second hand DVDs (previously ripped or not) due to same licensing regulations. Pretty much any film I’ve watched has had some bumpf about not being for resale etc in the same paragraph about not being for public display or to be copied.
