Many people ever perplex with how to backup copying righted DVD, and many of our readers asked us via e-mail if we know any free tools which work on Windows Vista that can be used to rip DVD for playback on PMP (portable media players). Therefore, we decided to test some DVD ripper software and then make a tutorial on how to use the best tool we could find. In this article I will give you a step by step guide about how to rip dvd to standard video with handbrake and rip dvd to high definition video with Wondershare DVD Ripper.
Part 1: How to Rip DVD to Standard Video with Handbrake?
HandBrake is a freeware application that can convert movies and rip DVD including VIDEO_TS folders, DVD images, real DVDs. It can convert them to standard video like MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM.
You can download the application from Handbrake.fr. Download the latest version for Windows Vista (select the GUI download link) and install it. Now launch Handbrake and let's see how we can rip DVD movies (West Wing) to .M4V for playback on iPod Touch.
When you launch Handbrake, click on the 'Source' button from the menu bar, to select the files that you want to convert. As you can see, you have two choices: a video file or an DVD/VIDEO_TS folder. Choose what you prefer and then browse to the desired video file.
Now click on the Browse button and choose a destination folder for the new video and type its file name. Next, select the output settings for the video file. This can be done from the presets panel on the right. Simply click on the 'iPhone & iPod Touch' option and all the output settings will be set in automatically. Finally, click the Start button, found near Source. Handbrake will begin the encoding process and a command window will open with details about the process. And the following performance screen shot is from testing on Windows Vista 32 Pentium 4 single core. It seems that the HandBrake occupies too many CPU threads. If you use a dual core processor, the conversion speed will be much faster.
When the process ends the window disappears. For the DVD file is very large - over 4 GB, so it takes me near 9 hours to finish the conversion. And the operation seems to a little difficult for most of new users, it needs too many user define settings.
Part 2: How to Rip DVD to High Definition video with Wondershare DVD Ripper?
Many people complain that the video quality is not as clean as the original DVD after they ripped DVD to standard video. For an ordinary DVD movie is often 7-8 GB in size, if we convert them to standard video formats the size would be hundreds of MB, so we have to face the problem that the code compress process would destroy most of unimportant data and the video quality get bad. Then what can we do to resolve this issue? The answer is to rip DVD to High Definition video formats , for these HD videos are often bigger than standard video and decrease the video damage. So the HD video seems to be lossless compared with the original DVD.
To finish the task, we need a tool to help us. The tool we use is Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum, which can rip DVD to High definition video formats such as MKV, HD AVI, HD MP4, HD WMV, HD MOV, HD ASF, HD VOB etc. This program is very easy-to-use, just a few click to finish the conversion without any learn curve.
You can download the software at the below link: Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum , and install the application.Once you launch the Wondershare DVD Ripper, you can click "Add" to load Real DVD or DVD-like source such as DVD folder, ISO files, IFO files. Here we add a real DVD from DVD Rom.
After you add the DVD, you can edit the video effect by clicking "Edit" from the menu bar, this software video editing function is very powerful and utilitarian which includes video crop, video effect adjust, video trim and watermark edit.
Next, select the output video format, this software supports various video formats, almost any video formats you can name, and it supports many PMPs such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, Creative Zen etc. Here we select HD MP4 as output format.
The last step, click the "start" button to start the conversion. Then you can get a cup of coffee and come back later to check if the conversion is finished. Furthermore, this DVD Ripper offers the option to automatically shut down the computer when the conversion completed.
The original DVD file is near 5 GB, the conversion test on Windows vista 32 Pentium 4 single core system and it works very fast, which takes about 1 hours. And below is this DVD ripper performance screen.
If you use a dual core processor I imagine you would be very happy with the speed of the conversions.
Attention:
Before you begin to use these software, you need to pay attention below items:
1. Understand copyright laws in your country before ripping any copyrighted DVDs.
2. Understand that in the US the laws are unclear and conflicting, you might be able to rip a copy of copyrighted material for your own use under the concept of Fair Use. However, circumventing DRM may be illegal in and of itself, regardless of ownership of the IP or intent after disabling the DRM method. Read up on the DMCA and then contact your congressman!
3. Do not promote or partake in piracy. Although there is some dubiety over whether it is legal to copy DVDs for your own use, making copyrighted DVDs available in the public realm is against the law.
