dvd ripping

[maxone71]

should you ripp dvd to hard drive first or ripp right from dvdrom?

l8r.

[hech54]

A "DVD Rip" is an exact copy of the disc with NO compression(despite what little geeks call what they place on torrent sites).
Converting a DVD to video file is always faster from the HDD.

[Hoser Rob]

I always rip from dvd to hdd. Usually with DVDfab HD decrypter. It works quite well. Set output to DVD-9 so it won't do any encoding/compression. Its encoding sucks.

Then I use handbrake or vidcoder (which is handbrake with a different GUI) to encode to mp4 or mkv. The latter if I want the subs. mkv will embed them within the output file.

Yes, it's faster to do it this way even though there's another step. The decrypting doesn't take much power. Separating the encoding (which does take power) from the optical drive speeds really things up. Optical drives are by far the slowest thing on your computer.

[jman98]

should you ripp dvd to hard drive first or ripp right from dvdrom?

You've been around here a long time to not understand what "rip" means.
https://www.videohelp.com/glossary?R#Rip

rip != convert