Any good free dvd rippers / converters ?

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Hey can anyone tell me if you know about a good dvd ripper or converter so i can get it onto my hd with out just coping and pasting. I would like it in one file like a mpeg or avi. But it would be better to get as good quality as possible ?
 
1) To make a backup of a DVD to another DVD...
Install this program first... it will remove the copy protection and macrovision while you decrypt...
http://www.dvd43.com/
When you have that installed, then use DVD Decrypter to rip the DVD to your hard drive...
http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/
Once you have it ripped to your hard drive, use DVD shrink to make the image smaller and turn it into an ISO file that I can fit onto one DVD... Note: you have to select ISO image as the target file from the drop down menu.
http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/
Once you have the ISO image you can use this program to burn it back to a DVD...
http://www.imgburn.com/

2) To Rip a DVD to an AVI file...
The free version of this program can rip any DVD to a 700 Mb AVI (XVid) File...
http://www.fairusewizard.com/

3) To turn video files back into a DVD...
http://www.dvdflick.net/
 
Lol. Thats a huge load of files. When i rip it will it still be all those files. It has like a seperate file for sound and another one for each scene of video. Its not just 1 file like a avi or mpeg files. U get wat i'm saying ?
 
Ghost02 said:
Lol. Thats a huge load of files. When i rip it will it still be all those files. It has like a seperate file for sound and another one for each scene of video. Its not just 1 file like a avi or mpeg files. U get wat i'm saying ?
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ok, if you just want to do it "one click" ... the only program you need is FairUseWizard. Download it and install it and run it. Just accept all the default settings. Don't change anything.

Insert the DVD and it will rip you one single 700 Mb AVI file straight from the DVD. The more powerful your computer the faster it will go, but can take an hour per DVD.
 
Ghost02 said:
What type of quality will that be ?
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Good enough to watch on a Standard TV as if it were DVD.

Don't know about HDTV cos I don't own one.

If you want higher quality you can spring for the registered version of FairUseWizard, that lets you encode over 700Mb (the bigger the file size the better the quality - you can play around with the settings)... but once you see the quality I think you will be suitably impressed. There is no visible degradation. It uses Divx compression very well.
 
Its not for me to put it on a dvd and watch it on my tv. Its to watch on a 22" screen that i'll be getting and to play on mp4 player
 
Ghost02 said:
Its not for me to put it on a dvd and watch it on my tv. Its to watch on a 22" screen that i'll be getting and to play on mp4 player
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That's how I watch mine... rip them to my hard drive as a 700 Mb AVI file and then copy to my Mvix player which plays MP4/Divx AVI files and watch them on my 22" Analog TV. As I said visually you will not detect any difference between then AVI files and a normal DVD.

FairUseWizard rips them to AVI files.
 
In fact, I have even used DVDFlick afterwards to burn those AVI files back to a DVD and there was still no degradation of quality.

Now stop asking questions and just go do it :p Trust me... it is what you want! :D
 
antowan said:
dvdfab decryptor
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Hmmm i tryed DVD Decrypter + DVD43 + dvdfab products & ended up settling with the combination of AnyDvd + 1clickDVDcopyPro
This will only get you a unencypted/uncompressed copy of Video_TS to your HDD but it works pretty good
(Not free tho)
Struggled to find a decent program to convert that file to DivX + keep some quality...downloading this Fairuse program now for a look
 
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Tun@ said:
Hmmm i tryed DVD Decrypter + DVD43 + dvdfab products & ended up settling with the combination of AnyDvd + 1clickDVDcopyPro
This will only get you a unencypted copy of Video_TS to your HDD but it works pretty good
(Not free tho)
Struggled to find a decent program to convert that file to DivX + keep some quality...downloading this Fairuse program now for a look
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I had a dvd of someone last week - gave FairUse Wizard a try for the first time. Within a half an hour or so, I had my 698mb AVI file with excellent quality. I will never, ever use any other ripper again.
 
HavocXphere said:
Fair Use Wizard 2 with H264 setting.
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For me i'm going to need to create an iso off my VideoTS files to use this Fairplay.Thats no problem but as the full verson has no trial.
What size file are you getting in the finish off say a 4.5Gb movie using those settings?
That H264 setting will still give out surround sound?
I need to also use DivX, my player don't support Xvid
 
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Just select the XviD 4 codec settings for your quality and then in the program, click on the option that allows you to choose your output file size. You can type in 700mb. Simple.
 
Tun@ said:
For me i'm going to need to create an iso off my VideoTS files to use this Fairplay.Thats no problem but as the full verson has no trial.
What size file are you getting in the finish off say a 4.5Gb movie using those settings?
That H264 setting will still give out surround sound?
I need to also use DivX, my player don't support Xvid
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It has enough options to do just about anything. Doesn't do CSS encryption though. For that you need DVDDecrypter plus maybe Daemon tools.

To create an iso from VideoTS you can use CloneDVD2 I think...assuming you have it/can get it...all legally of course.
 
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