DVD Movies

[JoelM]

Hi,
I have a ton of DVD movies. I would like to rip all of these to put on a hard drive. I don't need high quality, just decent to stream to different rooms in my house or copy to my laptop hard drive when I travel.
I have tried a couple of different programs and even purchase 2 but it still seems like it takes at least an hour for each movie.
What have you found that may work faster? It would be nice if there was even just a hardware box that I could put the disc in and have it automatically do it.
It seems like there should be a way to do a movie in about 15min but I can't find it.
Thanks

 

[Diggs]

Me thinks you don't understand the huge encoding process a rip requires. It's not a copy. A rip is a total re-engineering of the digital master.

 

[sapphirescales]

Magic DVD ripper is great. It does most DVD's in under 20 minutes. It takes longer if you're ripping them to a low quality AVI file, but if you're just going to MPEG then it's very fast.

 

[Diggs]

Magic DVD ripper is great. It does most DVD's in under 20 minutes. It takes longer if you're ripping them to a low quality AVI file, but if you're just going to MPEG then it's very fast.

Ripping is hugely hardware dependent and I know @sapphirescales is never short on horsepower.

 

[sapphirescales]

Ripping is hugely hardware dependent and I know @sapphirescales is never short on horsepower.

True, true. However I've been using Magic DVD Ripper since 2007. It took about 40 minutes on a P4 HT 3.4Ghz with 4GB of RAM. I'm sure the OP has better hardware than that.

 

[Kreivan]

I've always had luck with makeMKV, it backups most of my movies in less than twenty minutes. This is on a system with an A6-5400k with 4 gig of RAM. Also having a good optical drive helps with speed.

 

[GTP]

Is "ripping" DVD's legal where you are?

 

[Diggs]

Is "ripping" DVD's legal where you are?

Ripping for personal backup, storage and use is acceptable.

 

[sapphirescales]

Is "ripping" DVD's legal where you are?

Ripping is only illegal if you then distribute the file illegally. There's no law saying that you can't back up your DVD. I don't think you're allowed to resell the DVD after you rip it though. Not that it's an issue. After I rip something, I throw the disk away in the trash.

 

[kwisher]

If you have a spare PC and copious storage space then this is how I did my DVD collection. First you will need to make a disk copy of each DVD to a ISO file. Then using HandBrake, you can que up the rips from the ISO image files and just walk away. Yes, this requires an extra step for the disk copy but the ripping process can then be automated and not require you to wait for the longer ripping process. ISO creation of the disk takes less time than the ripping. Plus, if you have plenty of storage, the ISO can be saved as another form of backup.

 

[MichaelBits]

I use MakeMKV to rip DVD's. Then use Handbrake to convert to MP4.

 

[Blues]

I like others use MakeMKV for the initial rip, quick but it is full sized, then Handbrake or some other encoding software to shrink it down. I recently found and am looking into an application called MKVShrink, or something like that, which is a simplified program for compressing and encoding.

 

[JoelM]

Interesting. I had not thought about doing it in 2 steps via a que. I'll look into that. Thanks.

 

[HCHTech]

Not that it's an issue. After I rip something, I throw the disk away in the trash.

Wow - I don't trust my backup that much! When I ripped my 12,000 CD collection to digital, I just couldn't bring myself to toss the disks. I bought a dozen 4" binders with CD pages, I think there are 6 on each side of each "page". The dividers are just right to put the liner pages in with the CD. The whole think zips up so no light intrudes and the mechanical stress of the weight of the pages is minimized. That was about 14 years ago now, and they are all still in my storeroom. Every once in a while, I'll go pull one for one reason or another - I don't expect I'll ever get rid of them. Sentimental value and all that.

 

[HCHTech]

If you have a spare PC and copious storage space then this is how I did my DVD collection.

That's what I did for my CD project as well - I burned out two optical drives over that summer...they just aren't made for continuous work