Quickest Way to Rip My DVD's?

[Rjupiter]

Basically I got a crap load of dvd's a no place to keep them. I want to get rid of them but would like to back some of the ones I like onto my HD. Does anyone have a quick easy way to do this?

[aedipuss]

buy and install anydvd. open the dvd you want to save. copy the audio and video ts folders off the dvd into a folder named for the movie. done.

[Krispy Kritter]

Of course if you get rid of the originals, you are then breaking the copyright/fair use law.

If you really need to save space, consider putting them into binders/cases. You can put the disc in one slip and cut the cover to fit into the adjacent slip (or not use the covers at all and store twice as many discs).

[Rjupiter]

well how stupid is that that I have to keep the crappy dvd's that I bought if I want to rip them, then whats the point of ripping?

I mean there are a lot tv shows I have that I don't have dvd's for because they A. never released or B. copied off something like tivo , so you can busted for that too?

besides I wanted to give them to someone in my fam, not store them in perpetuate.

[noki]

Rip to Divx format (mp4) to your HDD. Quality will suffer a bit though, but certainly watchable.

[tinker]

Yes, you can get busted for almost anything these days.
If your DVD's are 2-3 years old try DVD Shrink, DVD Decrypter or if you find it RipIt4Me (the best), all free.
AnyDVD is good, but you have to pay, around $70 US, 20% off till March 19.
Actually I just clicked, and RipIt is on this site.

[jman98]

The law on copyright is somewhat vague in the USA and ill defined. A court would have to decide if getting rid of originals is really breaking the law or not. A strong argument could be made that it is not (there are legal precedents for this), but Hollyweird would certainly argue that ANY copying for ANY reason at all violates their copyright. To date Hollyweird has not sued any individual for personal ripping of discs they own.

Rjupiter - Hysteria will do you no good. We are only telling you that in theory you could be in trouble, but again maybe not. For all their posturing, the MPAA has only chosen to go after downloaders as that action is illegal. They are not real inclined to go after someone who rips something they bought for fear of losing and setting a legal precedent that such behavior is OK as that could potentially have negative consequences for their ability to go after people who are downloading things that they haven't bought. The odds are high that nothing will happen to you, but can we say with 100% that under no circumstances at all nothing will happen to you? No we cannot. But the odds are highly in your favor. I cannot conceive of any reason that the MPAA would want to target you for copying something that you bought and using that copy for yourself only, but can I give you a 100% guarantee on that? Nope. But I would say that the odds of you being in trouble for that would probably be less 1 in 10 million.

[neumannu47]

The law on copyright is somewhat vague in the USA and ill defined. A court would have to decide if getting rid of originals is really breaking the law or not.

As a copyright lawyer, I respectfully disagree with your statement. The copyright law in the US is very clear. It is also clear that copyright enforcement is inconsistent because of the level of damages (copying home DVDs for personal use) and the ability of the infringer to pay those damages (who has $150,000 per violation laying around the house?)

When the RIAA started their law suits for uploading, a lot of people tried to argue that the laws were not clear, but those arguments failed. Any copyright attorney knew they would fail, although very few people, including the RIAA, knew who the suits would play out in the court of public opinion.

[Rjupiter]

Yes, you can get busted for almost anything these days.
If your DVD's are 2-3 years old try DVD Shrink, DVD Decrypter or if you find it RipIt4Me (the best), all free.
AnyDVD is good, but you have to pay, around $70 US, 20% off till March 19.
Actually I just clicked, and RipIt is on this site.

I found RipIt and downloaded it, it easy but it also compresses the video somewhat, up 65% with the assumption that it going to be burned on to a 1 layer DVD. Is there any program that will not do this, compress it that much or let me choose? Also I am not sure what the point of ripit is as it needs DVD Decrypter in order to work in fact DVD Decrypter does all the work and I already had that program, so color me confused.


Also to comment on what other people have said I am not hysterical or anything I just think it is kind of a stupid law. I have no intentions of uploading or sharing my crap with other people, I have better stuff to do, it is mainly for that fact that I live in a micro sized place and right now my dvd's are sitting under my bed cause I don't have the room for them and all their bulky packaging. Why don't the DVD people think about that when making these things, save a tree and cut down on the needless packaging. And I have a slew of new HD's so I got the space and I spent the bulk of my time in front of my computer anyway.... its practical from my pov.


I think I play it safe and take the advice and just keep the disks and throw out all the packing crap.

[tinker]

I am not sure what you are doing, but RipIt will not compress anything.
You will get complete DVD, unless you choose "Movie Only" option.

[Rjupiter]

I am not sure what you are doing, but RipIt will not compress anything.
You will get complete DVD, unless you choose "Movie Only" option.

Actually yes it does try and compress the dvd once it or should I dvd decrypter has done ripped it, it tries to launch DVD Shrink which I don't have.

And while it rips the DVD fine and fast I am not to keen on the video quality of them, they seem a bit grainy to me.
So I am not sure if that is the program or what and I don't want to rip all my dvd and have them this quality.

[bendixG15]

Suggest you spend more time reading ...

This is free and it does the job..
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic347910.html

[manono]

Actually yes it does try and compress the dvd

Don't be absurd. It's a decrypter. It gives you the files exactly as on the DVD, minus the copy protection. Yes, it'll launch DVD Shrink afterwards. So what? That's mostly as a test to see if what it decrypted will open OK in Shrink. Even if you had DVD Shrink installed it still wouldn't have shrunk the files. You'd have to set up DVD Shrink for transcoding and then tell it to do so.

And while it rips the DVD fine and fast I am not to keen on the video quality of them, they seem a bit grainy to me.

Anything you don't like about the decrypted files was exactly like that in the source DVD.

[tinker]

You do not have to use Shrink at all. You can disable it so it will not even come up.
Once RipIt is done, close and open folder with the movie name you ripped, all the files are there, Not Compressed
You use Shrink only if you want to fit it on 4.7GB DVD and remove some parts from it, like different languages, extras and so on, otherwise you will have to use dual layer DVD to burn.
And like manono say, what you see for quality had to be on DVD already.

[Clevo89]

Wow.

DVD's take up little space. You are going to need a huge external drive just to keep all the copies. Imagine if you had a stack of VHS instead!

Keep the DVD's, find some storage space somewhere and save yourself some time and hassle.

[Krispy Kritter]

Any regular CD cases will work. Such as these: http://supermediastore.com/cd-dvd-wallet-wallets-424-discs-cd-holders-cd-storages-orga...12424-red.html

That would be 424 movies in a pretty small package, or 212 movies if you also keep the covers (part of the cover anyway)...as I noted above.

[kush]

If the only reason you want to rip is due to shelf space (and not for an easily accessible/discless HTPC setup or something), I'd take KK's advice above, and buy a binder and transfer your discs and if wanted the sleeves/notes. [edit] That way you are still legal in every way, while cutting down on the majority of bulk.
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The one linked above is a pretty sweet deal too. $17, free ground shipping. I paid at least $5-10 more overall as I recall for 2x200ish folders (that aren't as well made as those look) a while back.

Look at it another way - take one (or two) of those puppies, fill them up, and you have a built-in barbell/weight lifting system!

Oh, and re: copywrong law in this country. Yes, there's lots of things that I don't agree with, plenty that seems a bit iffy and unclear (of course we're dealing w/ ~30 year old laws here on much of it), but on the aspect of Fair-Use it's pretty cut and dry. If you want to legally be able to copy anything, you MUST own the original (just don't DARE break encryption [and thuis violate the DMCA] in the process :winkwinknudgenudgeknowwhatimsayingguvnah. Throw away the original and you may not keep the copy... Not that it stops anyone really , nor are you likely to get a jackbooted beat down if you do that, but sometimes it's better to be safe than sorry. Besides, what if you in the future want to rip to XVID or something, and your HDDs crap out on you? You then have no backup plan.