TV Show Ripping

[elister]

Ive got this "BBC" show that a "Friend" wants me to make a copy in exchange for some movies that I cant find anywhere. Im using DVD Shrink, but its not shrinking the files small enough. Each disc has 6 episodes at about 1.2 gig, which is well over 7 gigs total. Even at the highest compression (level 10) the total file size is still too large to fit on a DVD-R.

I tried to give DVD One a try, but its not free, and nagged me about it being encrypted material.

Right now, my best bet is to copy each episode with DVD Decryptor and encode it one by one with DVD2SVCD then merge everything with SVCD2DVDMPG+ (which I registered). Still not sure on the batch encoding with DVD2SVCD. I even have two 2.2 Ghz AMD systems I bought just to handle large tasks like this, it will be fast encoding, but its still going to take alot of time.

I have a bunch of BBC series on DVD, and my "Friend" wants not just one, but three series, so this is going to take a long time to rip and encode. Is there a faster way to do this? Is there a better tool that rips DVDs simular to DVD Shrink (which I absolutely love).

Any ideas? Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge

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/ Moderator snowmoon

[Dennis1968]

Caution from experience, if the DVD is NTSC you can you any DVD-9 to DVD-5 program like DVDXCopy Xpress, DVD95 Copy, Clone DVD etc to rip episode DVDs. IF the DVD is PAL Region 2, Region 4, split the DVD. The compression on PAL DVD with more than 4 hours of video will be worst than a VCD.

[snowmoon]

Copying DVD's for a friend does not fall within "fair use" as defined and supported by this forum.

I'm sorry we just cannot condone illegal activity.