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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:20 pm
by GORDON
Now that I actually have a media streamer, I need to start archiving the disks I have legally purchased and wish to rip for frequent viewing on my own equipment.
So who rips stuff? What do you use?
Don't just say "doom9.org" because every method they talk about involves 4 different programs and 6 steps. There HAS to be an easier way to do this. I am willing to pay for a good program.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:53 pm
by GORDON
Ok, so I still can't find a "just push the button to rip the movie."
I loaded/ran "AnyDVD." SUpposed to be "the best." It made a folder called "Video_TS" and in that folder were just a whole bunch of different files.
Now what do I do with it?
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:25 pm
by GORDON
I am starting to think the 29 steps in doom9 actaully is the easiest path...
I guess I have the MPAA to thank for the obfuscation?
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:49 pm
by GORDON
This is ridiculous.
A magnitude easier to just download someone else's copy.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:23 pm
by Malcolm
You married to Winblows or are you willing to entertain *nix alternatives?
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:32 pm
by GORDON
Well yeah Linux is great but you still haven't simplified this process. I'm DL'ing what I want right now, and THAT is easy.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:10 pm
by Malcolm
From what I've heard second-hand, Winblows is ... difficult when it comes to this sort of shyte. Every vid that's ever been burned to CD/DVD/Blu-ray for me has been done on some version of Linux.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:08 pm
by Cakedaddy
On doom9.org, there is dvdfab. dvdfab even has a DVD to PS3 option. Along with to AVI and many others.
I'm surprised you didn't notice it.
DVDFab HD Decrypter - simple ripper that's always updated to handle copy protection by disc corruption mechanisms.
It's not free. But, you said you're willing to pay. But, it's free for a little while. So, if you just get to it and rip them all, then, you're set. Each PC you load it on will of course have it's own trial period.
Until DVDfab 6 came out, turning my movies into an AVI for my wife's Arcos was a 5 step process that would run over night. DVDfab 6 put it all into one utility, but, it's expensive. I did a handfull of movies for her and then it expired.
Oh, and I love the "Remove annoying PGC's...." option.
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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:44 pm
by GORDON
I will look into it tomorrow.
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:00 pm
by GORDON
Cakedaddy wrote:DVDFab HD Decrypter - simple ripper that's always updated to handle copy protection by disc corruption mechanisms.
It's not free. But, you said you're willing to pay. But, it's free for a little while. So, if you just get to it and rip them all, then, you're set. Each PC you load it on will of course have it's own trial period.
Until DVDfab 6 came out, turning my movies into an AVI for my wife's Arcos was a 5 step process that would run over night. DVDfab 6 put it all into one utility, but, it's expensive. I did a handfull of movies for her and then it expired.
Oh, and I love the "Remove annoying PGC's...." option.
So you say YOU have used this, and have been able to make perfect rips onto a hard drive? I don't know what an Arcos is.
Plus I will require some tech support, it sounds like you have done this more than I. If you say it works I will just buy the whole package for 20% off.
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:52 pm
by Cakedaddy
Download it. Push some buttons, and see what comes out. It's really easy. You'll be able to guess your way to what you want. But, you can try all of it before you buy it so you know it will work for you.
An Archos is a media player. It's like an MP3 player for movies. 7" screen and a big hard drive for movie storage. So, I would rip the movie into an AVI (that I would move to my laptop for veiwing) and then the Archos software would move it to her device. She likes subtitles, so I ripped hers with subtitles included. I wanna say you could control the compression as well. I'd make the movies about 700MB in size. On a 7" screen, you pretty much don't notice the resolution loss. They even looked pretty good on the 17" laptop screen. Point is, you can fit a whole lotta movies on a smaller harddrive.
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:04 pm
by GORDON
Just loaded the demo and have started pushing buttons.
The plethora of flavors is a little confusing. If I get the BD-copy one... I can't make a copy to my mobile, because I don't have the mobile-copy version?
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:07 pm
by GORDON
I put in one of my Buffy the Vampire Slayer disks to see how it does pulling out a single episode. This program scanned it.
"This disk contains CSS protection, this version of DVDFab cannot copy it."
Not really impressed, this is an old disk. Because it is the demo version? How the hell do I test it if it wont do anything?
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:12 pm
by GORDON
Whoa, out of the blue after I closed it, it asked me if I wanted to upgrade to the CSS version.
K.
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:06 pm
by GORDON
Wow, attempt #1 to make an .mkv file looks and sounds like shit on a 61" TV. And I can't seem to find any new options.
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:26 pm
by GORDON
Ok, new question:
It looks like with this program it is easy to rip the DVDs into AUDIO_TS and a VIDEO_TS folders... I've seen that lots as part of the ripping process... I just don't know what to do with them at that point. The folders I made of this one episode are almost 2gb big, which is weird because it is one episode of a DVD with 4 episodes on it.
Here's what I'd like to do: Make a 720P version of this 50 minute TV episode, from the DVD. Before you say NOT POSSIBLE, I DL'd a 720P version of Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog, and it was only released on DVD. So SOMEONE managed to do it, and it looks and sounds perfect. That's what I want. This 293MB .mkv file I just made of this episode looks and sounds approximately like VHS quality.
The 751MB .mkv file of Dr. Horrible, which is about 40 minutes long, is perfect.
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:39 am
by Cakedaddy
What is .mkv?
I've only done avi and dvd to dvd. The AUDIO and VIDEO folders are copies of what's on the DVD.
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:01 am
by Cakedaddy
I dunno. Quickly looking at the options, I don't see a 720P, 1080i, etc type option. You can set the frame size. You can check/uncheck a 'deinterlacing' option. You can set a bunch of bandwidth options. I don't know enough about 720P to know which options make 720P.
I knew the screen size of the Arcos (like 720 x 480 or something). I would then look at the original aspect ratio for the video. Find the clostest match in the list that was no wider or taller than the Arcos resolution. That kept the aspect ratio correct and wasn't any bigger/smaller than the video player's capabilities.
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:42 am
by TheCatt
Cakedaddy wrote:What is .mkv?
I've only done avi and dvd to dvd. The AUDIO and VIDEO folders are copies of what's on the DVD.
MKV is a container filetype for holding audio and video. It's all the rage among the illegal ripping crowd.
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 4:16 pm
by Cakedaddy
Because you made me look. . . I'm working on some more conversions for the Archos. My VERY expired version of DVDfab still works too. Not sure what expires. . . Anyway, as a refresher to how I did it (I don't remember the details), I hit the Archos forums to see what was the easiest way for our device. Many people were talking about FairUse Wizard. So, I'm trying this now. Seem similar to DVDfab in capabilities. Has a BOB Deinterlace options (anything to do with the i or p in res numbers? Dunno.) But, I'm trying FU (as they call it) to make my AVIs. The free version has a file size limit of 700MB, which works for me (remember, I compress pretty heavy cause of the 7" screen). The full version allows more features and bigger files. One feature I liked was that you could pick when it starts and stops. So, I could skip all the open credits (if there's nothing happening) and keep the closing credits out as well to make the movie a bit smaller. You can also tell it when the closing credits start, if you want to keep them, but it increased the compression rate cause quality is less important, thus, saving space. It did more stuff too. But, so did DVDfab. Not sure what it all means.
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