DVD ripping program

Just looking for some opinions here. I need a program to rip my dvd's to my hdd.
Under the ADD/REMOVE APPLICATIONS there are 2 listed with 4 stars popularity. one is dvd::rip and the other is acidrip dvd ripper.

Im on ubuntu. anyone prefer either of these over the other.
Id like to rip them in good quality, but smaller file sizes than a dvd. cause i dont have a ton of hdd space.

Thanks

 

I have used ACIDRIP with great success. I mainly use DVDFAB PLATINUM in winblowz now though.

 

K9Copy is another one you might want to check out.

Here is a K9Copy review and here are more options/alternatives listed.
Cheers.

 

i am running ubuntu. and k9 says its for KDE. will it still work cause Ubuntu uses GNOME?

 

Yes. Most KDE apps only need the kdelibs library to be installed, (not the entire KDE environment), and they run just fine under other DEs, like Gnome. BTW, k9copy is the best DVD ripper under Linux. It works like the Windows programs AnyDVD/CloneDVD and DVDFAB, in that if you want, you can rip the DVDs to an ISO image on your HD and keep all the menus, audio tracks, etc. k9copy will also do transcoding of DVDs to single movie files as well.

The other apps you mention really only transcode DVDs. (Like transcoding a DVD movie to an AVI file). I found dvd::rip too complicated to use, and AcidRip too frustrating to use. AcidRip is basically a GUI frontend for the excellent command line tool, mencoder, which is part of the mplayer package. My frustration with it is that I could never get a decent video file completed because the mencoder commands that AcidRip supported were either out of date, or incorrect.

For my use, the best Gnome based DVD transcoder program I found is called OGMRip. It never failed to transcode, was very easy to use, and produced excellent video files.

Good Luck..

 

I remember there was one really good guide by XUSMarine (I think that is his name).

But the search does not work for me right now so search: DVD backup abd that should put you in the right place.

 

You can install Fab via Wine. It works fine, though the GUI is off a bit.

 

I use DVD Decrypter on WINE, don't ask me where I got the installer for dvd decrypter though ...

 

Thoggen, although very slow, is a solid app, and easy to use, if you just want to copy to the HDD.
You need to add one of the semi-legal packages from the repos to make it work. I don't remember the name of the package but it was easy.
I've installed k9copy and k3b to Ubuntu. It wasn't a big deal. I'm not anxious to clutter up a GNOME-based OS with KDE stuff, but in this case there weren't a ton of dependencies.