Want to burn a couple of films ive got to DVD. Not bothered about menus etc as its just the films I want saving due to the original discs being on their last legs scratch wise!!

Not to be used for Piracy I hope.
But DVDshrink is great and will save as either ISO or video file.

With the advent of fast broadband I find it’s quicker to download the CD/DVD illegally as a bit torrent and save to HD / DVD etc than to actually run ripping SW then burning SW to make a copy of a legitimate DVD.

Another vote for DVD Shrink. Select re-author and it will extract the film file on its own no menus trailers extras etc

Doesn’t work with some copy-protected DVDs but otherwise most excellent

Well I presume they’ll be protected as they’re original dvd’s. I really couldn’t be arsed to be selling hooky dvd’s trust me!!

DVD decrypter is ace. Can be used in conjunction with DVD shrink for er shrinking purposes.

Is that still going? I remember switching to DVD43 from DVD Decrypter because the latter had gone pop, and that must’ve been five years ago at least. (Not that I’ve ripped a DVD in forever now though, so who knows.)

Ive not used it for a bit, but I have used it since after it was “withdrawn” – since the bundled codecs still worked I think.

Handbrake in conjunction with DVD43 (the latter for removing the copy protection)……….. apparently.

ConvertXtoDVD is the dogs!

it does everything with a few clicks.

Where’s the best place to download any of the above??

Handbrake does the job for me.

Good guide for using Handbrake with 64 bit Windows

Handbrake Windows 7 + 8 64-Bit DVD Ripping

Please don’t use DVDshrink. Even back in 2003/4 DVDshrink was considered a poor quality tool that did a quick and dirty job. DVDshrink releases online were usually “nuked” on IRC/newsgroups.

I’m well out of touch with this, but I recall the the standard was to use multi-pass CCE for best quality, although it did take a while. On a modern PC, it wouldn’t take long.

edit – google found this: http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/big3-scenaid.htm