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What is the best way of taking a DVD and ripping it to my harddrive? I have plenty of HD space (up near 1.5tb) that I could possibly be using, and when I go off to college I would much rather be able to just bring a PC instead of 100's of DVDs and CDs. Thanks in advance all.

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That usually isn't possible due to the RCE/CSS protection on the DVD... Thus, decoding that protection is considered illegal :(

 

CSS scrambles the data on the DVD in a random format according to a key, making it impossible to take out on your own...

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:withstupid:

 

Use a DVD ripping program to make .VOB files out of each movie. I personally use DVD Shrink and then use a program like PowerDVD to just load the .VOB files from the hard drive. I find it to be the easiest program to work with, especially if you don't care much for saving space/compression.

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i use dvdfab its great takes everything into a iso either you can do movie only or entire disc without downsizing to a 4.7gb disc which is awesome b/c i hate those programs that just cuts the quailty in half. than i use alchol 120% virtal drives to play them in power dvd seems to work fine but if each full movie is around 7gb it can take alot of space.

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Dvd Decrypter works great, then use dvd shrink to take away all the extra languages if you have a huge file and want to burn it to a blank dvd...

 

You need to read a little bit better. Thats not what he wants, he wants everything to be on his computer so he does not need disks at all.

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How do I encode it with something (say DivX, or H.264 or w/e...)?

 

If you rip the DVD into .VOB files then you can use AutoGK to convert it into a DivX file.

AutoGK is the easiest way to get from the DVD source to an mpeg-4 variant like DivX, XviD, H.264...

 

it's definitely a good way of making a movie jukebox from all your dvds... that's what i do... saves having to mess about with bringing 200 discs into the lounge...

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I have a quick question, does AutoGK suffer major audio/video sync problems ??

 

Call me a n00b :blush: but I actually purchased a program called FairUse for 15 bucks. Excellent program!!!

 

Oh snaps, I just noticed they jacked up the price to 20 bucks... :ph34r:

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