Trying to rip DVD's...... quality is not good.... sugggestions?

[True Colors]

Here is my situation. I have some new DVD's of an old sitcom show that I am trying to rip. The show is old(filmed in the 1970's) but the DVD's are brand new(I recently purchased these off of amazon.com).

Some of the images look great. However, I also get some occasional scenes where there are "splotchy" areas in the corners(green, red, purple, etc). It's weird because the splotchy areas come and go as the camera angle changes during the show.

I used handbrake(current major release and also the one before it). I also used DVD 43. I have tried this on two different computers. Both have pentium 4 single processors, 2 gigs of ram, and internal DVD drives. I tried to output to a few different file types(avi, mp4, m4v, etc) but that did not solve my problem.

Anyone ever encounter this type of problem before? Do you know of any alternate methods I could try to rip these files? I am willing to experiment if necessary but I would prefer not to spend any $$ if possible

Thanks,

TC

[victoriabears]

are the source discs clean, what burner are you using and what media? If they are copy protected you need to use a defeating software, lack of that could be the cause of the blotches.

You can "backup" dvd's with:-

http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm

sorry mate but you ask technical questions we need technical info, we are not clairvoyant

[hech54]

Also....and once again....a DVD "rip" is a perfect 1 to 1 copy of a DVD or Blu Ray disc. A "rip" involves
ZERO compression. What you are doing is converting that DVD to a "lossy" video format that will lessen the quality.

[Baldrick]

Try a different converter and see if it make any difference, use staxrip(avi,mp4,mkv) or autogk(avi).

And I assume the dvd looks fine when you play it in your computer?

[eskro]

theres alot of ways to rip a DVD these days... but i suggest you try this,,,

use AutoGK and if your episode is lets say 30 minutes


custom size (MB) choose --> 300MB
output resolution choose --> Fixed Width 640
output audio choose --> VBR mp3 Kbps 128
codec --> XviD


Sit back and relaxe,,,

[True Colors]

are the source discs clean, what burner are you using and what media? If they are copy protected you need to use a defeating software, lack of that could be the cause of the blotches.

You can "backup" dvd's with:-

http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm

sorry mate but you ask technical questions we need technical info, we are not clairvoyant

In fairness to me I did provide you with most of this information.

I told you that the disks were brand new and that I just ordered them from amazon. So yes, the source disks are "clean." They are fresh right out of the box.

I am not using a burner for this project nor do I have any media to burn anything to. I told you that I made output files. Not physical disks. I have no interest in producing extra physical DVD's or anything like that. These files are going onto my hard drive.

As far as the copy protection goes, yes, this product is copy protected. I thought I addressed that when I told you that I used DVD43 to unlock the protection.

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I will try those things and see what I can do.

TC

[Noahtuck]

theres alot of ways to rip a DVD these days... but i suggest you try this,,,

use AutoGK and if your episode is lets say 30 minutes


custom size (MB) choose --> 300MB
output resolution choose --> Fixed Width 640
output audio choose --> VBR mp3 Kbps 128
codec --> XviD


Sit back and relaxe,,,

That is not "ripping"...

Read what hech54 wrote.