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Had a brief look online with no conclusive answers but i'm wanting to transfer all my dvd's to my pc. I understand that I need ripping software but have no idea which is best?
Anyone does this already that can advise me?
depends if you just want to rip them or rip and re-encode to a smaller file.
For the first one, makemkv will take a DVD or bluray, allow you to choose the audio/subtitle languages and then turn it into a .mkv file. This will be approx 4gb for a DVD. MPC Classic, VLC, XBMC, Boxee etc will all play this back perfectly.
Alternatively you run makemkv as above, then run Handbrake on the produced file to compress it. In my opinion you get perfect quality (i.e. I cannot tell the difference side-by-side) at about 1.4 GB. This this corresponds to about 20 or 21 on the 'quality' slider.
Handbrake again
Though if you don't have a powerful PC, it will take forever to rip a DVD! My 2.66GHz Core2Quad with all processor cores maxed out still takes about 25 minutes to rip a 2 hour DVD!
mboy
really???? Sod that then....thought it was quicker than that
+1 handbrake and VLC (im a mac user)
Doesn't handbrake just rip to apple formats?
I tried using handbrake last night.......didnt understand what was happening at all
Handbrake rips to lots of different formats - you can select the format and compression level / encoding quality.
I use DVD Catalyst to rip to my Xoom. Seems very good in that it works! 🙂
Captain......how do you find your Xoom??
been looking at tablets a lot lately and reviews have said that its a goodun.
Very impressed to date. There are a fair few threads about tablets worth looking for where [s]all the i-Pad acolytes will froth away madly about how on earth would you consider buying anything else? Are you mad? Apple are lovely and perfect and Steve Jobs is like teh god to me etc[/s] there are all sorts of opinions. 🙂
Suffice to say, it's very well made, works perfectly for everything I want it to and I like it. Cover is a bit clunky, but that's more of an aesthetic issue than an operational one.
Handbrake + DVD43 if necessary.
Handbrake will save into a variety of formats.
My 2.66GHz Core2Quad with all processor cores maxed out still takes about 25 minutes to rip a 2 hour DVD!
I look at around 10-11 hours to do the same thing...
I use makemkv which can rip a DVD in a few minutes as it doesn't have to do any transcoding. Can't remember how long exactly but I think on my machine it's typically about 15 minutes, probably limited by the read speed of my DVD drive. Handbrake has to transcode so takes forever; it's only of use to me if I want to watch it on a mobile device. Also as you've noticed the interface leaves something to be desired.
mboy
really???? Sod that then....thought it was quicker than that
Yeah, though not the latest, mine is still by all accounts a pretty powerful computer. If you blew a load of money on a top notch core i7 desktop and overclocked it too, you might get that figure down to 10-12 minutes, but that'll be on a machine that is as powerful as a consumer can currently buy/build.
I look at around 10-11 hours to do the same thing...
Nice! What machine you got? An old Pentium or a Celeron on a laptop perhaps?
Can't remember how long exactly but I think on my machine it's typically about 15 minutes, probably limited by the read speed of my DVD drive.
Doubtful as DVD drives read at up to 24x speed, meaning theoretically it can process 2 hours worth of information in under 6 minutes. OK they'll never actually achieve a constant peak speed, but I suspect the bottleneck is still somewhere else in your system.
I have no idea what processor is in it as I tend to find my computers in bins!