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Rip DVD for view in Windows Media Center
Whats the easiest way to rip a DVD to my hard drive so I can watch it through Windows Media Center?
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11-14-2008, 07:33 AM
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DVD Fab Decrypter (free!!)
alongside... DVD Shrink (free!!) Rips them down to your harddrive, removes encoding, and DVD Shrink will make the files a bit smaller without really changing the quality. DVD Fab can also only rip down the movie itself, not the extras/menus/credits/crap that clogs up the disk.
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11-14-2008, 07:43 AM
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Anything VLC can play it can transcode to a different format... ffmpeg can also do it, as can mplayer. Win32 versions available of all of them... and all free (in cost) and Free (as in speech)
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11-14-2008, 07:47 AM
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How long does it take to rip a typical DVD? Minutes? Hours?
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11-14-2008, 07:54 AM
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Minutes. Probably 15 minutes to rip a complete dual layer DVD (7, 8 gigs). Takes about 45 minutes to shrink it and burn it to a blank DL disk using Nero. Naturally, these times may vary based on computing power, by my lil' old 3 year old desktop pulls times like that.
If you have a big HD or external drive, you can archive the movies shrunk down to, oh, say 4GB each and just store them all. Each program has a 10 minute learning curve.
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11-14-2008, 08:06 AM
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I like mpeg streamclip from squared5.com
Free and works really well. Use it for a lot of my conversion tasks.
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