Best way to rip/archive DVDs?

We have quite a collection of DVDs, but our DVD player broke recently.
We got hold of a multimedia server, so what we plan to do is rip 'em all to that and have it set up so that it can be accessed wirelessly throughout the house. Then we can watch all our DVDs anywhere, including on the TV by connecting a laptop to it via HDMI...

At least that's in theory. What's the best way to rip the DVDs? I want it to be as easy as possible, for the non tech-savvy members of the family. (Which means no ripping as .isos and mounting them with a virtual DVD drive )
I want as good quality as possible, as good/better a picture than a DVD player would output on our 42" Plasma.


tl;dr
Best way to rip DVDs in best quality?

 

DVD Decrypter & Nero

 

Go to www.doom9.org and read

But if you don't do that, use DVD Decrypter to rip the DVD's and DVD Shrink if you want to shrink the files down to fit on a single DVD.

DVD Decrypter is very easy too. Just install, pop in a movie while the program is open and wait until it reads the disc, and click "decrypt." I don't think you really have to do anything else.

 

Slysofts AnyDVD is a good piece of software.

 

DVD43 is free and does the same job as AnyDVD. I use DVD43 as the decrypter and remove protection and Nero Recode to shrink and burn the DVD. Steps: start DVD43 and it removes the protection, start Nero Recode, analyse disc, choose if you want to remove dvd features and copy! Unlinke DVD decrypter, DVD43 is on-the-fly decoder so no need to mount anything or rip as .iso.

 

Search Google for a program called "handbrake". It uses all free software to do it's transcoding

Note to other mods who might thing this is against the rules: There's no law against making personal copies (fair use). We could get into interpretations of the DMCA, but no one agrees on how it works, so I'd say we should leave this up as long as it's helpful to people

 

Thanks guys.
As it is I've used DVDFab to extract the Video_TS folder and I've just been using VLCs open directory option to play it. If any of these work out easier I'll swap.

 

Eh, if you meant: rip the dvd in VIDEO_TS format, and if you have a lot of hard drive space, can't you just copy paste the folder from the DVD drive?

 

I've heard that AutoGK is good for creating high quality AVI files.

 

If you just want to have all the movies (and no menus, etc) then the best way is Handbrake + dvd43. Use dvd43 to remove protection, then handbrake to rip the movie. It supports a few of the common container formats and codecs, so check to see which one your media center supports and go from there.

 

RipIt4Me works with dvddecrypter, shrink and imgburn. At one time you could get them all off one page, but that seems to have stopped development, so you need to download the others first. It's one click op (more like three).

You should check it out..

 

You could give fairusewizard a try. http://www.fairusewizard.com/lang_en/

 

i used to use dvddecryptor, but found there are a number of movies it will not rip due to updated encryption profiles on the discs that the outdated/unupdated dvddecryptor wont hack.

i found that Anydvd can decypher the discs i had trouble with when using dvddecryptor. but you need another peice of software to rip the image, anydvd will just decode the disc and allow other regions to play on your machine.

one thing of note would be anydvd doesn't work with panasonic/matush. optical drives.

 

Lifehacker had some nice write-ups about this.

http://lifehacker.com/355281/dvd-rip-automates-one+click-dvd-ripping

http://lifehacker.com/5046778/rip-full-dvds-to-your-hard-drive-without-the-nasty-drm

I'd like to do this eventually and also get a Blu-ray and do the same with that. What I am thinking is I want to build a massive storage server and then be able to stream any movie to my TV without having to shuffle through discs. However, I'd like to be able to rip right to ISO, but nothing seems to be able to do this.

 

What I had originally wanted was something to do a one click rip into divx or avi, but that's a lot harder than I had envisioned.
There's a lot of different alternatives here...

I think, as VLC can play the directory I rip, if the server works with that that's what I'll stick with. Then all we have to do is open VLC, click open directory and navigate to the film in question's main folder. My family don't even need to know that there's video/audio files inside. It's also full quality, and we'll get at least 60 films on that server.
It also has support for a usb harddrive, so by the time we've filled it, we can get a TB HDD for <€120

 

If you like VLC, then you should rip your movies to ISO. VLC can open ISO files directly and using ISOs means only one file per movie. Click on the title, and there she goes.

 

How do you go right to ISO or is there an easy way to create an ISO using the ripped folders? I'd rather have single files as they are easier to manage.

 

DVD Shrink can output to ISO, ImgBurn can build ISOs, DVD Fab HD Decrypter can rip directly to ISO. If you use Shrink you have the option of getting rid of stuff like extra languages and subtitles, if you want.

 

Good to know, I haven't used these programs in years and never needed that function. Now I just need to complete my storage server.