How can I Rip DVDs to DVDR

[Brotherman]

How can I Rip DVDs to DVDR. what software do I need

[montythedog]

You start by reading the How To section on the left and then doing a forum search, rather than letting everyone do the work for you.

[Cheesemeister2000]

Easy, by spending more than 1 second to look at this site index on the left.

HINT : DVD RIP - DVD-Video to VCD, SVCS, DVD

Cheesemeister2000

[Will Hay]

You start by reading the How To section on the left and then doing a forum search, rather than letting everyone do the work for you.

A more pragmatic approach sometimes elicits a more favourable response, and doesn't put off the more niave (let's not automatically assume lazy shall we?) what is perhaps one of the best forums on the net.
Brotherman,
I use four programs at the minute (and don't understand a bleedin' thing about how or why they work):
1) CladDVDXP - This rips the files from the dvd (essesntially called VOB files) to your hard drive (takes around twenty mins for a 2 hour movie)
2) DVD2AVI - This does some bloody thing with the VOB files (takes around ten mins for a 2 hour movie)
3) TMPGEnc Plus - This encodes the two files (ac3 audio and d2v video produced by DVD2AVI) into an mpeg file (on my system a 2 hour movie takes around seven hours)
4) Ulead Movie Factory - This enables me to add a menu page with chapters, background pics and music and also to burn to a blank dvdr
There are many other programmes available including one called DVD2DVDR which I'm trying to get my head round - I've heard many good things and it appears to do it all for you (rather than the first three processes which I do individually).
As the first post quite rightly suggests, go do some reading on this very site (the guides are excellent but download the software and do an actual dvd to dvdr as you read it - don't read it first, if you're anything like me you'll drop into a coma at around page three).
Some of the more experienced people on the forum (myself excluded), involved in backing up dvd look forward to your not-so-niave next question
Will Hay

[Skorpio]

I dont understand why this process has to be so difficult. I have wasted plenty of dvd'rs trying to get the screen and sound to match. I guess what my question is what format of the movie is best for dvd riping? What i want is the format where i can just unrar to hard drive then use nero to to put on dvd. I have tried divx dvd rip but the damn sound gets all messed up SVCD dvd rip but picture never fits to much space on the top left and right of the screen.

[Doggiedaddy]

Nothing worth doing is every easy.


This is only for DVD9's that can not be reduced to a workable 4.7 (4.3 GB by ripping just the main movie or all of it if size willing, if so It is just a straight rip and burn with (DVDDecrypter), another good freeware program, or whatever program you prefer.
I have had great success with this method on DVD9to5. It is not all freeware but I have spent many nights and countless time on a lot of software and found this method flawless, if followed precisely, on each attempt. You have to decide for your self what works for you time, cost quality,ect. I have made many, many copy's of my DVD's and no costers since I started using this process. None of this is my software nor do I have any affiliation with the software providers I just know it makes great DVD's and it is all still available unlike most of the guides I tried that get you half way through the process and then you find out some of the software or other necessary component does not exist any more or costs an arm and a leg.

Not free but cheap

SmartRipper
DVD2AVI
TMPGEnc
Dazzle DVD Complete

http://www.dvd9to5.com

[ninja_pimp]

easy, use dvd dycrpyter or smart ripper and extract the dvd files onto your hdd,
from there use can use dvd2avi to create a project file and an audio. the audio part never works like it should for me so i have to use AC3 to decode the audio
once you have audio and a .d2v file, import these into TMPGenc and encode the mpeg file, from there you use spruce up, and finally recordnow max to burn the m2v file to dvd-r

[Will Hay]

I was walked through a mehod last night involving Smartripper and Maestro which was very easy. I'm at work now and the dvd is burning (Prassi) as I type, although I've yet to iron out some problems.
I've been creating vcd's flawlessly for months now, and would advocate the CladDVD (or smartripper), DVD2AVI and TMPGEnc as it's sooooo easy.
Don't be put off by the 'go read a guide, stop asking stupid questions (that will take you an age to search for), some people can't appreciate some of us need that little extra help, and some of the giudes are a little too hard going.
By all means read the guides, but one simple premise...
...you only get out what you put in.
This doesn't just mean the quality of dvd, but also if you're a lazy git then you're not gonna' get it done for you by others.
Good luck.
Will