Comments on: Hackit: Ripping DVDs

By: A N Consumer

A N Consumer — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:14:36 +0000

Hi,

Here at consumer central, home of normal consumers and the less geeky, we have simplicity itself:

A HP media Smart server.
Several TB of hard drives
MyMovies 3 server software (a simple add-in)
AnyDVDHD (installed with MyMovies3)
Slim Server (Now a logitech product)
An external USB BlueRay Drive.
An ASRock HDMI/NVidia ION enabled “NetTop”
Windows 7 Ultimate
PowerDVD 9 Ultra (HD enabled)
Windows Media Center
A slimp3 audio player

Now say hello to scalable, protected, networked storage all round the house.
All your DVD’s/BlueRays/CDs available anywhere in the house. Fabulous user interface, auto updated movie info, multi room music, perfect HD pictures and great sound, no messing with settings, everything is automatic just feed it the discs.

Job done, actual discs now reside in the loft not in the house, films can be watched on the plasma, projector, kitchen tv, den pc etc.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:33:48 +0000

I use DVD Decrypter to rip any dvd, then if I’m burning to a physical disc, I’ll use DVD Shrink, then burn using DVD Decrypter. But I almost never burn DVD’s. Too much work involved, plus, my laptop is almost always hooked up to my big screen. I usually go the way of encoding the DVD into an avi file via AutoGK.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:58:21 +0000

My first thought on reading that people use a DVD player hooked up to a writer was “that’s odd, why don’t they just use a computer?”

Thinking about it, though, that’s exactly how we’ve thought about it for years. VCRs were used exactly like this for years – if it works, why fix it? Most laypeople are more bothered about copying their disks for backup or friends, anyway.

By: richard rivet

richard rivet — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:50:54 +0000

juan is this you from ottawa

richard rivet

By: hello

hello — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:05:07 +0000

omg. thiz is so haaxors. deeveedee rippin is so illigulz. i cunt believe u to put thiz on the paig! wuy shuld i brak laws?

dumbass whiners. read up on copyright laws dipshits.

By: pistolpete3521

pistolpete3521 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:42:10 +0000

DVDShrink, is the best IMO. Clone DVD is too unstable and is nowhere near as usable as DVDShricnk, + it is much less memory intensive. If you aren’t going to burn them, like me. Rip them with no compression on the movie and some on extras, etc. to save space and retain viewing quality.

By: DCMAWTF

DCMAWTF — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:25:44 +0000

@29:

All decryption of DVD’s is illegal. Digital Millennium Copyright Act made sure of that. Even if you own the movie, decrypting it, even for “fair use” & otherwise legal reasons is against the law and punsishable by law.

By: PaulJ

PaulJ — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:08:23 +0000

No love for VLC?

http://lifehacker.com/software/dvds/rip-dvds-with-vlc-230349.php

By: Your wife\'s secret lover

Your wife\'s secret lover — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:10:51 +0000

"oh my god!! This is not about hacking!! Why are you putting this on hackaday??"

All the whiny bitches can STFU

I use Mac the Ripper for the ripping chores and Popcorn for the Burning, and Turbo.264 for the transoding.

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:08:11 +0000

for Linux, k9copy is excellent. makes DVD9 to DVD5 copies, retaining everything including menus and stuff.

By: MindHacker

MindHacker — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:42:19 +0000

Dvd decrypter -> Gordian Knot -> Xvid

It's so much more convenient to have all my movies on a single harddrive. Doom9.org is a wonderful resource, and will teach you everything you need to know, and everything you want to know if you want to get into the ins and outs of dvd encryption schemes.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:23:04 +0000

For all those wondering why you’d want to rip a DVD, I do it so I can have something to watch on my iPod during long flights. It’s smaller than the rental DVD players or a laptop, when the movie’s over, I can listen to music, and the small screen size…well, let’s just say that space on the plane is pretty limited, so I’m holding the iPod pretty close anyway.

By: mikey g

mikey g — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:42:04 +0000

lol @ coax cables

By: Korvost

Korvost — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:25:28 +0000

I use DVD Decrypter + AutoGK, gets a movie down to 700/1400 MB, Ã la scene standard. :P

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:04:15 +0000

Since the article states most people ‘rip’ DVD’s by connecting a DVD player to a DVD recorder that is in fact a hardware ‘hack’ isn’t it?
Also since people might very well be doing that massively so they have a backup or if it’s a HD recorder more easily accessible they probably do it with legally purchased DVD’s.

Also hackaday had a deluge of hardware projects lately and every one of them would take several days to do yourself minimum, so all those “I want hardware hacks” people should be busy making stuff. and not see this small article.