ripping dvds to my external hard drive

Hococop

This might get asked alot but i was was wondering how can i burn my dvd's onto my external hard drive? is there a software or a dvd burner i have to buy?

Voodu Child

Burning is when you write data to a CD/DVD.

You mean rip your DVDs?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74357454

Hococop

Voodu Child wrote: »

Burning is when you write data to a CD/DVD.

You mean rip your DVDs?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74357454

sorry your right rip is what i meant to say

Hococop

hey i downloaded dvdfab and i have 2 questions:

1) when i used the dvd ripper function it says i have a only a 30 day trial for the ripper software,

2) it takes around an hour to ripp the dvd, and was wondering if it usually takes that long or am i doing something wrong

Voodu Child

Hococop wrote: »

hey i downloaded dvdfab and i have 2 questions:

1) when i used the dvd ripper function it says i have a only a 30 day trial for the ripper software,

2) it takes around an hour to ripp the dvd, and was wondering if it usually takes that long or am i doing something wrong

The basic ripper (which they call 'DVD Copy' doesnt expire. You have a 30 day trial for the other functions (converting for iPods etc) but the ripper (under 'DVD Copy) works forever. Ive been using it for years.

It should take about 10 mins to rip a DVD depending on your optical drive speed. BluRay ripping will take much longer because of the amount of data involved.

If it is taking longer it means you are probably doing some conversion at the same time. Check the tab down the bottom, make sure Quality is set to 100%

yoyo

Many DVD drives have a 'feature' called RipLock. If a DVD with CSS protection is detected the max speed the DVD vburner will read the disc at is around 1 or 2x (speed). This is fine for watching a movie but painfully slow for ripping. My advice is check out RPC1 Portal to see if someone has produced a hacked firmware for your particular drive. This may also add many other benefits such as region free etc.
DVDFabDecrpyter is free. This will rip the DVD and remove all protections. You can then use a different encoding problem to go from DVD Video (VOB files) to Xvid, MKV or whichever format you choose. If you want to burn a dual layer DVD to a single layer one, then download DVD Shrink, open folder>point it to the path DVDFabDecrypter dumped the disc and let it re-encode the video to fit the single layer disc.


Nick

Hococop

Voodu Child wrote: »

The basic ripper (which they call 'DVD Copy' doesnt expire. You have a 30 day trial for the other functions (converting for iPods etc) but the ripper (under 'DVD Copy) works forever. Ive been using it for years.

It should take about 10 mins to rip a DVD depending on your optical drive speed. BluRay ripping will take much longer because of the amount of data involved.

If it is taking longer it means you are probably doing some conversion at the same time. Check the tab down the bottom, make sure Quality is set to 100%

cheers man i clicked dvd copy then main movie in the tab and it copied it in less than 10 min, but one more question (hopefully will be the final one)

when the movie copied it was split into 4 parts rather than one full movie is this normal?

Voodu Child

Hococop wrote: »

cheers man i clicked dvd copy then main movie in the tab and it copied it in less than 10 min, but one more question (hopefully will be the final one)

when the movie copied it was split into 4 parts rather than one full movie is this normal?

You've two options:
-Full disc (everything incl menus, extra features, etc)
-Main Movie (lets you pick just the main movie, discard unwanted language tracks etc)

Either way you end up with a VIDEO_TS folder and a AUDIO_TS folder.

The AUDIO_TS folder is always empty, you can discard it. The VIDEO_TS folder has a bunch of .VOB files, .IFO and .BUP inside.

Thats normal, they are all part of the DVD structure. Any decent media player should be able to understand them and play the movie correctly. For example if you have VLC installed you can just right-click the whole video_ts folder and select 'play with VLC' and it starts playing as though it was a DVD.

danger_mouse_tm

You can use a program called http://handbrake.fr/details.php to convert it to a smaller file format. That WILL take some time depending on the power of your computer.