Ripping DVD's

[Adamm0621]

So I'm trying to put all of my DVD's on to an external hard drive and the whole process is driving me nuts.  I've got three computers ripping DVD's right now and this is still going to take forever.

[Monster Dave]

I'll check on the software that my friend uses. He likes it a lot and it doesn't take very long to burn.

[JEFF_H]

I like DVD Shrink

[Monster Dave]

Here's what my friend says he likes and considers very reliable:

http://www.dvdfab.com/  

[derby]

the ripping itself shouldn't take too long at all... it's the re-encoding/transcoding to other formats that takes massive cpu cycles.

[zarn02]

the ripping itself shouldn't take too long at all... it's the re-encoding/transcoding to other formats that takes massive cpu cycles.

Yup.

Ripping takes very little time compared to the million billion years you spend waiting for it to become an avi, or whatever.

[LoneStar]

Handbrake is the best for the money ... it's free!  Easy to use with one-click presets.  Frequently updated (new release today).  Has a command line version for those who like to script (like me).  Multi-threaded (runs fast on my 8-core mac pro).  windoze, mac, and linux ubuntu versions.

It's a winner!

www.handbrake.com  [ooops!  corrected.  thanks.]

http://handbrake.fr/

[Le Pirate]

Handbrake is the best for the money ... it's free!  Easy to use with one-click presets.  Frequently updated (new release today).  Has a command line version for those who like to script (like me).  Multi-threaded (runs fast on my 8-core mac pro).  windoze, mac, and linux ubuntu versions.

It's a winner!

www.handbrake.com

+1

I love handbrake

[Monster Dave]

Ah, but alas it won't do Blu-ray.

[superjohn]

Handbrake is the best for the money ... it's free!  Easy to use with one-click presets.  Frequently updated (new release today).  Has a command line version for those who like to script (like me).  Multi-threaded (runs fast on my 8-core mac pro).  windoze, mac, and linux ubuntu versions.

It's a winner!

www.handbrake.com

Is that link right? All I see is one of those annoying pages with ads for other pages that go to ads for still other pages.

[derby]

Is that link right? All I see is one of those annoying pages with ads for other pages that go to ads for still other pages.

nope:

http://handbrake.fr/

[derby]

Ah, but alas it won't do Blu-ray.

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/handbrake_adds_blu-ray_support/

[darylbowden]

Not that I support this (officially at least), but it's probably far quicker to torrent them in mkv format than to sit there and try and rip them.  If you use a good private tracker, and have a decent connection, a 2-hr mkv-formatted movie takes about 20 min to d/l.

[LoneStar]

Ah, but alas it won't do Blu-ray.

it does not de-crypt blu-ray.  but the latest release added some support for handling blu-ray.

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/04/handbrake-video-conversion-tool-adds-blu-ray-support-more-device-presets/

[Monster Dave]

i use handbrake to convert my massive DVD collection to use on my media player in the same way we once coverted our massive CD collections to MP3.  perfectly legal when used this way.