Ripping a DVD w/o a DVD Drive

[jewishpornstar69]

Is there anyway of Ripping a DVD with having a DVD drive or a DVD Burner? This may be a stupid question but I just thought I'd give it a shot.

[dark_breaka]

no

[sych0]

no

[tgpo]

It can't be done because you need a DVD drive to read the dvd for decoding.

[poopyhead]

different lasers

[Craig Tucker]

The answer is yes ! Read the question carefully

Craig

[Dave B]

You can capture the output from a DVD player using a capture card but this is not ripping.

[Craig Tucker]

You hav'nt read the question carefully, granted I am being a bit flippant but the question was :-

Is there anyway of Ripping a DVD with having a DVD drive or a DVD Burner?

Craig

[Dave B]

But to be equally flippant, with is the incorrect preposition when used with having so it is unclear as to what original the poster meant. :P

I've got too much time on my hands...

[CloneAD]

lol, don't ya just luv forums

[sych0]

Dave B: Wouldn't he run into macrovision problems? I've tried it before, and only got a green square...

[Craig Tucker]

You can run into macrovision problems when capturing a DVD via an analogue capture card, but not when ripping.

[Dave B]

As Craig states, macrovision can indeed be a problem with analogue captures. It does however seem to be specific with particular players and/or capture cards.

I have captured macrovision protected sources with my PCTV capture card and never had a problem. I know that ATI capture cards can cause problems.

[poopyhead]

if you just wanna have DVD backup....good dvd-roms are cheaper than good cap cards (16x dvd-rom lite-on for $37 shipped)

encoding from a capped source is never gonna be as good as encoding from the dvd source directly (digital vs. analog)