DVD

[Byte 2.0]

I want to experiment with DVD's.

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Just for testing, not to do anything illegal, I want to know how to rip a DVD. I know there are some programs on the net that can do this, but the ones I have tried were to complex. I am hoping to find one program that i can download that has everything included that I need.

Please answer by means of a Priate message.

Reason being, my degree is in TV and Radio Production and It is still a hobby of mine. I am currently getting some software to edit video and audio on my PC, and if I can Rip DVD to my PC, It will give me another source to use. Thank you.

[archie]

My knowledge of DVD is nil and I assume that a DVD could not be copied with a regular CD burner.

I would hope that some of the replies would be posted here to be shared with the others.

[cobra]

Tom's hardware had an article on doing it. It seemed pretty simple, converted it to mpeg. Search on Tom's I can't find the link

[Byte 2.0]

That is out of the area I want. I don't want to burn DVD's to Cd. I want to just capture the audio and video.

That would be easier, then hooking a VCR up to my computer.

I just want to make movie files on my computer.

I am not interest in copying DVD's. Besides DVD copiers I hear are available on the market now.


That is more what I am looking for to convert to mpeg or something. Thanks.

[Edited by byte on 03-03-2001 at 11:16 PM]

[archie]

http://www4.tomshardware.com/video/00q3/000913/

[madthumbs]

Clad is very simple, it can extract just the movie or all files. They will be vob files that can play in PowerDVD under file mode just like from cd.

[audiyoda]

Time is the big problem here as is CPU power. Ripping a complete DVD to a .vob then to a MPEG 4 takes a cnsiderable amount of time. With my system, I can get it done in about 8 hours using a T-Bird 1G (oc'ed to 1.4) and 512M of RAM. If you've got anything below a 800Meg Duron, forget about it -- it's going to take all day if not two days of your CPU running at 100%. Celeron owners should forget about it altogether -- Both MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 need more beef than those CPU's can offer.

Once you've got the DVD ripped to a .vob file, it has to be re-encoded to MPEG 4 -- this is another 4-6 hour job on my system. At that point, you can start editing the MPEG 4 file -- higher end video editors like Premiere, Vegas and Media Studio can handle MPEG layer 4 with little problem. Although the shear size of the file makes editing a very long process until you've got the edits down ot managable sizes.

The question is, do you want to go to that extent to get one or two scenes from a DVD? Another new twist is recent copy protection encriptions have been damn good on DVD's -- making the ripping process considerably longer than it took even 4 months ago.

-Craig