What is the best blu-ray and dvd ripper software?

[Baldrick]

anydvd just rips and copies the entire dvd. No quality loss.

If you want to convert/shrink use another software. Like DVDRebuilder to shrink to a smaller DVD or Handbrake if you want to make a small mp4 or mkv file.

[steptoe]

There is no 'best' settings, you can either choose between ripping to an 'image' or ripping the entire disc so that it 'should' play as if you were playing from the original disc

The default settings should be enough to rip almost anything. Almost .... because new copy protections are found daily, and the software is automatically updated very shortly after they have found a new protection and 'fixed' a way to rip it

If the source disc is poor quality, then the output will be as it rips exactly what the disc structure is. Your average blu-ray could quite easily go upto 50GB and a DVD may go upto about 9GB

The difference is simply that the 'image' is literally that, its a single file that is an exact copy of the disc and the other rips all the disc to a folder on your computer so that other software can access it. But most decent conversion software should be able to read an 'image' and treat it as a disc


You then need to run it through other software to convert that film/series to something a lot smaller. The full blu-ray rip of Prometheus is about 44GB. The main movie is about 36GB but can easily be compressed to an MKV file of about 7-8GB and still maintain high quality. But be prepared for a very long wait as its a huge amount of work to achieve this using a converter such as Vidcoder or BDRB. Both of which are 100% free and achieve very high quality results .... patience really is a virtue when using these pieces of software

BDRB also has the added ability of compressing a full blu-ray disc and squeezing it to fit on a DVD so that it plays as a blu-ray but using DVD media. It doesn't mean it will play in a DVD player as it won't, it just means you can use DVD-R instead of blu-ray media and still play it in your blu-ray player