How do I put a DVD movie on my HD?

[Bruiser]

I hear people talking about ripping DVD to the hard drive then burning to the blank DVD. I am gonna get a DVD burner in the next few weeks, but, for now I want to learn how to rip the DVD onto the HD so I can start right when I get the burner.

Thanks

[Tommyknocker]

Click here.

[Vejita-sama]

Let me add that there are two (General) ways to rip a DVD. Rip the files or rip an image. I perfer to rip an image and then mount it with Daemon Tools. Why? I can rip several discs and mount them as necessary.

[gmatov]

Vejita,
Please explain, "rip an image". Do you mean as in disk copy, copy image to? (File Name) And then you manipulate the image as if you were ripping the disk. I have never tried that, I generally rip the files to a given folder. I can see an advantage, and if that is the case, thanks. If, not, what is?

[Cyrax9]

I'm not sure if this works on all DVD's, but I heard that some Disc's allow you just to copy the files to the HDD, just like Audio or VIdeo Cd's do, but they're sill encrypted (in other words you can open/burn them ro convert them yet) if you have a Ripping program, after you copy the files ot the HDD you can "Rip" it to whatever format you'd like and the burn it without ever having to put a strain on your Disc itself.
IF anyone has done this and has had sucess let me know I don't like the idea of ripping a DVD to the HDD if I can copy the files and rip the copys for burning, better for the Disc and probably safer too.

[overloaded_ide]

Cyrax9

You totally lost me? Whats the difference between copying files from the disk to the drive, or ripping the files from the disk to the drive? Isn't that the same thing basically? You just remove whatever your removing durring the rip instead of copying what you don't want

I mean it would seem to me it's all the same amount of data being read from the DVD either way, just in ripping you don't actually save subtitles or protection schemes you told the program your ripping with to toss out.

If we are talking about comercail disks, I would not think either way is gonna hurt them any.

Still a newbie myself, so if I'm wrong whats better doing one over the other and why?

So far I would preffer ripping from disk instead of coping then ripping because you only ripping data once as you are doing the copy and thus saves time over copy then rip.

Currantly though ripping is not my fortay, I am more backing up VHS at this time. Though I have a ton of $20 dvd's I plan to backup soon too.

[Denvers Dawgs]

Get either DvdDecrypter, Smart Ripper, or another decrypter program you can find in this forum.

[JL]

What format can DVD2One encode to? I assume "encode" you mean encode the .VOB files into an mpeg or avi. Can DVD2One encode all .VOBs from a DVD into one file? i.e. usually there are 5-8 .VOB files after I decrypt with DVDDecrypter, but FlaskMPEG.60 will only convert one .VOB at a time (unless someone knows how to compile them all!).

I need a program that will take .VOB files (all of them) and render them into one, extremely high-quality MPEG2 file (720x480, same as .VOBs). I have been using Flask.60 (.78 bugged out on me), but it is diliriously slow when converting to MPEG2 (to the tune of 31 hours for 1:37:00 movie!).

Bottom line: What can DVD2One do better than Flask.60 in this case, or is it better?
Thanks a ton, please respond!!
--JIM--

[g_shocker182]

My fav is DVD Decrypter for the first process of putting DVD files onto my computer

[Denvers Dawgs]

Perhaps encode was the wrong word to use. Dvd2One will shrink ALL the files (VOB inluded) that you decypted, to fit onto 1 dvd+r/r/rw/+rw.

[g_shocker182]

So will DVD Shrink