im ripping my buffy the vampire slayer dvd's!

[rko2164]

well hello all i decided to rip my Buffy dvd's season 1 i tryed so many programs i came across useesoft dvd ripper this worked great i put the dvd in went to start i ticked the episodes. i chose the output format to mkv i fixed the mkv settings to h264 while its ripping the dvd plus converting the mkv file is 500mb is their anyway of shrinking this without the loss of quality i

[hech54]

wis their anyway of shrinking this without the loss of quality i

No.

[rko2164]

can you tell me why

[hech54]

1) The act of "Ripping" a DVD gives you an exact copy of the DVD.
2) What you are doing is converting or "compressing" the original down in size which WILL result in quality loss. Whoever told you otherwise is lying.

[Ai Haibara]

1) The act of "Ripping" a DVD gives you an exact copy of the DVD.

...and that would most likely be around 4.5 GB for a single-layer DVD, or over 9 GB for a dual-layer DVD, as I recall. rko2164, you're having the ripper convert the DVD to compressed video as (or after) it rips, which is already a reduction in quality. If you want smaller videos, is it possible to set the ripper to create smaller videos? (Of course, that'll still make the quality worse than the original DVD. Whether or not that's acceptable, is up to you.)