Few questions about Ripping DVDs?

Question

I'm not sure it's exactly legal to make a back up copy on your PC, as I always end up losing my DVDs. However, is it legal to rip DVDs to your PC? (And when I say DVDs, I mean films, like Star Wars, or James Bond, or Lord of the Rings).

Secondly, one of my friends said he did it, with something called DVD Ripper Wizard, and it worked fine - Except a few chapters came out in different languages and with commentaries. Why is this? Will it happen all the time?

Finally - According to him, he said they can take a LOT of memory. I have a lot, but I don't want my PC with 5 movies, and hardly any other memory left. Is there a way to compress them into smaller files?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I believe that ripping your DVD to your hard drive for backup purposes is legal. It's just not legal to copy the DVD and give or sell it to someone else.

Ripping a DVD does use RAM and CPU, but only when it's being ripped. It usually takes up about 8GB of hard drive space. You can compress the files using something like WinRAR, or you can use a program called DVD Shrink to allow the files to be compressed by about 50%. This allows them to fit onto DVD +-R media so you can burn a backup copy.

I've never used DVD Ripper Wizard, just DVD Shrink and DVD Crypt, and I've never had a problem with language or commentaries. Maybe there was something funky with your friend's disc.

Answer 2

takes lots of memory, like 6-8 gigs.

The language thing shouldn't be an issue, if you do the setup right. The "wizard" part generally means he let the comptuer choose which audio line to put with which video, instead of making that choice himself.

You can compress them to mpegs and such, but it takes tons of time, like I'd expect to be out of use of the computer for 8 hrs or more.

You will have to find or buy software to do it, I got a movie maker software from fry's, because I couldn't find any decent shareware/freeware.

Answer 3

Try searching something called DVDShrink on the Internet. Neat little program. Possibly the best out there.

A DVD is abt 4.438G of usable space per disk. So basically, that's what you must allocate on the harddisk per DVD disk (could be less; or more if its a DVD9.).

Use DIVX to compress you DVD movie.

Answer 4

hi, Josh. while it includes ripping, conversion, it continuously comes with high quality loss. this is via fact, this methodology desires to decode and encode the unique DVD. in case you want to tear DVD to computing gadget and burn to different dics later, you may rip it to AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4, etc. that maximum DVD burners helps. dvd+r or dvd-r are the two okay to burn, yet i've got heard that dvd-r has a greater advantageous compatibility. And endure in innovations, a competent media is fairly substantial to burn DVD. wish that facilitates.