ripping a DVD video?

[G M Strickland]

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I'm using Vista HP on my Acer Aspire 5100 laptop.

I have a store-bought guitar instructional DVD that I want to rip to
my hard drive (I have lots of free space). How do I do this - is
there a freeware that will rip a DVD to hard drive like you can with
an audio CD? Then how would I play my video after ripping?

Thanks,
G M

 

[Mark]

http://www.magicdvdripper.com/

I use their copier and it works extremely well.

 

[G M Strickland]

http://www.magicdvdripper.com/

I use their copier and it works extremely well.








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Ok I tried it and it seems to do the trick!

Thanks for the lead.

 

[G M Strickland]

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http://www.magicdvdripper.com/

I use their copier and it works extremely well.

Ok I tried it and it seems to do the trick!

Thanks for the lead.

G M

 

[oldman]

Tried the trials of these programs but unless i am doing something
wrong they do not replicate all of the files on the original DVD.
Seems like they generate a VCD or SVCD not a true DVD.

Am i missing something.

 

[Adam Albright]

Tried the trials of these programs but unless i am doing something
wrong they do not replicate all of the files on the original DVD.
Seems like they generate a VCD or SVCD not a true DVD.

Am i missing something.

Ignoring Digital Rights Management and copyright issues, you're
probably using the wrong software. Explain what exactly you're trying
to do and what software you used to attempt it. Without knowing that,
anybody is just guessing what your problems might be.

Your typical DVD contains VOB, ISO, BUP and IFO files in a TS video
folder. While there is an audio folder, that generally should remain
empty.

While the following site is for making home brew DVDs of your own
movies it does explain the process in simple English and shows DVD
structure. Maybe you'll find it useful.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1635

 

[oldman]

I would like to take a single or double layered DVD and convert it to
a single layered DVD. The programs I have used on an Xp system were
Ripit4Me, DVD Decrypter, VOBFix, DVD Shrink and finally a burning
program. It turns out that Ripit4Me and DVD Decrypter will not work
under Vista. For Ripit4me Vista says there is no DVD in the drive
and/or the drive is locked.

If one starts with DVD Decrypter the process fails when the job is
done and you try to close the program. DVD Shrink work fine as it did
in the Xp world.

Though there are programs out there that seem to work fine the end
product without additional processing is either a VCD or SVCD not a
standard DVD with all of its files in the Video_TS folder with the
Audio_TS folder empty.

Today, I tried something new but again it seems Vista created
problems. My new process was to create the DVD folders on the Vista
box and run Ripit4Me from the Xp box writing the extracted files to
the DVD folder on the Vista box. This failed. At the beginning of
the extraction a message appeared on the screen saying that there was
insufficient space on the drive on the Vista box. As it turns out
there was 200+ GB free space. I let the process begin. After the
extraction started the Vista box rebooted itself.

I do not understand why I got the message not enough space and why the
rebooted.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Adam Albright]

I would like to take a single or double layered DVD and convert it to
a single layered DVD.

I'll assume you know you can't take a fully filled out double layer
DVD which holds over 8 GBs of data and put it on a single layer DVD
that at best hold 4.7 GB WITHOUT recompressing the files, which at
that level wouldn't make a lot of sense due to the quality hit
involved. Two issues. You can't recompress VOB files without first
converting them back to MPEG-2 compliant streams. If all you are
attempting to do is copy what is on a DVD and make more copies of it,
excluding DRM and copyright issues, all you need is one of any number
of DVD copy utilities. You don't need two DVD burners. For example
Roxio's Easy Media 9 will take a source DVD, copy it entirely to your
hard drive as temporary files then burn a new DVD from that.

It sounds like you are trying to make copies of copyright protected
media which I'm not going to help anyone with.