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Rip movie from DVD, Convert to MP4

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Ive been trying to rip the movies from my DVDs, and i want 2 copies. One for my laptop, which i want to have quality equal to the DVDs, and i want another copy for my iPod.

I bought 123CopyDVDGold. The video quality remains good. But it puts a green line running down the right side of the video, which is very distracting. It also dramatically reduces the volume of the movie. I had my WMP at 100% and laptop volume at 100%. I have to put my ear up to the speaker to hear it.

I tried Total Movie Converter and Total Video Converter, and both rip the DVD, but turn the video into quality equal to crap. And it shrinks the video as well.

I heard Windows Movie Maker can do it, but it didnt come with my laptop, and i have to download the whole "Essentials" package to get it.

Can anyone give me advise on what software will rip the DVD, and allow me to create a laptop version, and a mobile phone version, without video or sound distortion?
 
I looked into it. It doesnt rip DVDs. It only converts movies to other formats, which i have that software. I need something that rips DVDs correctly, ive been looking off and on for a few months and still have found nothing. Everything ive found either degrades the video quality, or renders the audio to crap.
 
Yeah, I use handbreak for this. Ripped an episode of the Office and converted it to Evo quality when I first got my phone.

Handbreak > Source > DVD

that's how you select that you want to use a DVD disk. You can also use video files, VIDEO_TS folders, and I wanna say I used a backup image once... but I could be wrong with that.
 
I downloaded Handbreak, and tried ripping a DVD 4 times. Each time it came out looking like satellite TV during a real bad thunderstorm. The picture is blurred and choppy, shows the same frame for a few seconds sometimes, and the audio is very choppy. I tried different video codecs, and large size file. Is there a certain setup you have to use for it to come out right?
 
If you are having problems getting Handbreak to work, you could use that other program you have to make the original copy, this'll likely come out in a VIDEO_TS folder. Then there will be a bunch of files. Then you could use Handbreak to convert these files in a proper setting for your devices.

RE: Quality
Under VIDEO in handbreak, what are your settings for Quality?

Also might want to look into ffmpeg and vlc. Both are powerful tools. VLC is a media player, that has saving/streaming/converting options that I've used in the past to rip audio from live concerts.
 
Rip the DVD using DVDFab > Main Movie (DVDFab demo is free and fully featured for one month)

Transcode the resulting video_TS folder using Handbrake > High Profile preset

If it's a full length movie, this will take a while to transcode unless you have a quad-core or better. Takes about an hour to transcode the movie title of a DVD to h.264 inside an .mkv container with my core i5 media PC.
 
I tried DVDFab and it works great. But it costs $45 and I only get the ripper. Free version puts a watermark on the video.

I got Total Movie Converter working well. It's free and is working good.

I will give Handbreak another try.
 
javasirc said:
I tried DVDFab and it works great. But it costs $45 and I only get the ripper. Free version puts a watermark on the video.

I got Total Movie Converter working well. It's free and is working good.

I will give Handbreak another try.
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I've never seen a water mark on the video when using DVDcopy. I've never tried the ripper and I use DVDFab all the time.

True it's not free, but the demo lasts 30 days.
 
I havnt had any problems with DVDFab yet. I might drop the $45 and buy it. My main concern is all i get is the ripper. I dont get the DVD copy, or Video Converter unless i pay more money.

I tried Handbrake a few more times with different video outputs, and they are still coming out screwed up.

Total Movie Converter crashes a lot and has trouble converting the right tracks. Sometimes it will rip the "legal copyright" clip or the "lion roaring" clip and tell me its finished.

I think im going to rip some more DVDs with DVDFab just to make sure its doing everything fine. Ill probably buy it. Im tired of searching for a dvd ripping software when i already found one that works. DVDFab is very easy to use, and it does rip to different formats such as iPod, MP4, AVI, and lets me change the volume.
 
There's also AnyDVD. I've never used it personally but I've heard many positive things about it.

If you're using Linux, there's also the free K9Copy that works pretty well on most discs (except those with really tricky encryption).
 
^ I've actually have very good luck with linux lately. Like, all but one movie, and I can't find anything that will work on that particular disc.

I'd definitely try booting a linux distro from a usb and trying that. Works great for me.
 
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