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DVD to HDD?

post #1 of 14
11/26/06 at 8:01pm
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Can anyone offer me some useful programs, preferably freeware (I am a cheap bastard), for copying DVD's I own to my hard drive? I have a bunch of trips coming up and my tablet pc doesn't have an optical drive, so rather than going crazy reading pdf's on my flights I wanted to load some movies up and pass a few hours that way, and I am all ready weighed down with carry-on luggage so the thought of taking a portable dvd player with me makes my skin crawl. Thanks for the help.
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post #2 of 14
11/26/06 at 8:18pm
RipIt4Me.
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post #3 of 14
11/26/06 at 9:16pm
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Originally Posted by olyteddy
RipIt4Me.

You the man, it's working like a charm.
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post #4 of 14
11/28/06 at 6:36am
DVD Shrink works well too, and it removes region coding and CSS too, I believe.

EDIT: Hmm, this Ripit4me seems like it may be better than DVD Shrink
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post #5 of 14
11/28/06 at 11:09am
RipIt is a shell that uses Shrink, DeCrypter and a couple of other progs.
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post #6 of 14
12/6/06 at 9:02pm
Thanks Oly! I hadn't run across that. I believe it will make life a little easier.
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post #7 of 14
12/6/06 at 9:14pm
sweet!, thanks! going to try this out =D

does it sacrifice the picture quality @ all?
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post #8 of 14
12/6/06 at 10:29pm
I can't speak from experience, but if it is utilizing shrink, then technically yes, it probably is (although perhaps unnoticeable). Compressing the video is one of the ways shrink gets the size down (and of course stripping features out).
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post #9 of 14
12/7/06 at 12:15pm
If you are going only to the HD, you don't have to use shrink. But you can use it if you want to burn the movie to a single layer DVD.
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post #10 of 14
12/7/06 at 10:33pm
And now for your next word in DVD to HD: AutoGK. It will automatically transmogrify those MPEG2 DVD files to much more compact MPEG4 files. Longer battery life on your laptop (smaller files = less HD activity to play them)...
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post #11 of 14
12/16/06 at 1:53pm
For simplicity's sake, DVD Decrypter is best for just a raw rip of the DVD to a hard drive. Very quick and painless, but it will take up around 8.5GB of hard drive storage per DVD. You can use

DVD Shrink can pretty much half that down to 4.5GB but you do loose some quality, noticeable on a large screen, but not so bad on a 17" LCD.

AutoGk (Auto Gordian Knot) is an amazing program. I use it to shrink 8.5GB movies down to 400MB for playback on my Axim x51V PDA via a 512MB SD Card. It is a rather complicated little program though, so beware of brain fry.
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post #12 of 14
12/19/06 at 1:36am
The problem with using decrypter alone is it hasn't been updated forever. RipIt4Me gets upgraded practically every time a new DVD is released. And RipIt4Me is really just a shell that runs DeCrypter by feeding it the right commands.
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post #13 of 14
12/21/06 at 4:30pm
If Ripit4me is just a shell that feeds decrypter settings, and decrypter hasn't been updated in a long time (thanks Sony for sueing the guy) then how could it be better than just using decrypter?
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post #14 of 14
12/22/06 at 2:26am
RI4ME generates a 'Protected Sector List' that tells decrypter what not to look at. It also fixes the menu structure, if needed. Bad Sectors and Menus are commonly used as copy protection, and can cause DeCrypter to choke.
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