How can I rip DVDs to my computer?
By namd3r
@namd3r (395)
Canada
January 9, 2007 12:53pm CST
I am wondering what the easiest way to copy DVDs onto my computer is. I have some movies (that I own), but I just want more convenient copies of them, not to distribute in any way, just to watch. Any suggestions of programs or ways that I can do this?
1 response
@smacksman (6053)
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9 Jan 07
First you need to de-crypt them to get rid of copyright protection and zone encryption.
For this use freeware DVD Decrypter. You will have to hunt around to find it though because it was bought out by a commercial company and taken off most of the download sites. An old version will still work fine for most DVDs.
After decrypting, you will need DVD Shrink (also freeware) which compresses a dual layer commercial DVD onto a regular 4.7Gb DVD blank. Shrink also can be configured to remove things you dont want on your copy like 10 different languages, etc.
After Shrink has done its job you tell it to back up and burn a DVD using DVD Encrypter again.
Having a DVD reader drive and another DVD-RW drive helps but it can be done with one DVD-RW drive ok.
