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    RIP my DvD's to my HD, What software?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Silarous, Jan 11, 2010.

  1. Silarous

    Silarous Notebook Consultant

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    I have a HUGE collection of DVD's and I would like to store them all on a server to access from my PS3. What software should I use to be able to do this? I have AnyDvD to help with encryption, I'm just not sure what is the best software to pull the movie off the disk and turn it into a file that is readable by the PS3. Thanks!
     
    Silarous, Jan 11, 2010
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  2. BlackRussian

    BlackRussian Notebook Deity

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    DVDShrink it's old but freeware and still works, plus your have AnyDVD installed. Also look at DVD Decrypter..
     
    BlackRussian, Jan 11, 2010
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  3. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    I can vouch for dvdshrink. I have been using it for a few years now and it works great!
     
    Thaenatos, Jan 11, 2010
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  4. Joel

    Joel coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee

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    How about CloneDVD, thats what I use and its great!
     
    Joel, Jan 11, 2010
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  5. Selenium

    Selenium Notebook Evangelist

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    FairUse Wizard is good.
     
    Selenium, Jan 11, 2010
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  6. surfasb

    surfasb Titles Shmm-itles

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    Meh, DVDFab is the way to go.
     
    surfasb, Jan 12, 2010
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  7. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Check your local laws if personal backups are allowed to be on the safe side.

    If you have to bypass copy protection this may be illegal even if personal backups are allowed.

    (Copy Protection: Some DVDs you can for example copy via Windows Explorer, others you can't, or if you can half your picture is green...)
     
    DetlevCM, Jan 13, 2010
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  8. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    The easy way would be to just mux the video and the audio "uncompressed" to a .mkv container with MakeMKV.
    Its just that PS3 wont playback .mkv files. :(

    But if you want to safe space and not image quality (not much at least) you could try encoding the video to H.264 and the audio to MPEG-4 ACC and put it in a .mp4 container.
    I recommend something like StaxRip or HandBrake (easiest). :)
     
    DEagleson, Jan 13, 2010
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  9. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Unfortunately this is a US based site, and the DMCA disallows distribution of "cracking" type tools. I've gotta kill the thread since we aren't supposed to talk about things like that here.
     
    Pitabred, Jan 13, 2010
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