Posted: 12/9/2010 5:31:49 AM EDT
| I bought my wife an iPod Touch for Christmas and would like to put some of her favorite DVDs on there for her. Can anyone recommend a good tool for doing this? I've researched some of the options out there, but I'd like to get input from any of you who may have experience. Thanks! |
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SlySoft Clone DVD Mobile is what I use. I have backed up 30 dvd's to my iPad so far. It will rip a regular dvd to almost any portable format. http://www.slysoft.com/en/purchase.html |
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Handbrake will work for a lot of DVDs, but may not work for all. Some of the DVD publishers attempt various tricks to make their disc "uncopyable." Sometimes it works, if you're using the free DVD rippers like Handbrake.
SlySoft AnyDVD has never failed to rip a DVD for me. I think what you want is their Clone DVD Mobile product. It's about $42 with 2 years of updates. The updates are necessary to get around new copy prevention tricks that DVD publishers try periodically. So you could start with Handbrake, and then buy Clone DVD Mobile when you come across a disc that Handbrake can't rip. It's sad that you have to go outside the US to find a company selling software to exercise your fair use rights, but that's the way it is for now. |
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Handbrake in not a ripper. Handbrake will only work on unencrypted DVDs. This is where AnyDVD or DVDFab Decrypter come in handy. First, use AnyDVD or DVDFab Decrypter to rip your DVD to your hard drive. Then point Handbrake to the ripped DVD and convert it to a format for your wife's Ipod touch. One more thing about AnyDVD. You can purchase a version of AnyDVD that will have updates for forever, but Slysoft is doing away with that option. However, you can still buy that version until the end of this year. I bought AnyDVD back in 2007 and that has been the best software purchase that I have ever made. Really worth the money.
Vulcan94 |
| this one works well and does a ton of things http://www.dvdfab.com/ |
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DVD fab is to get the disc files ripped down to the computer alone off the disc, hence get past the copy right protection.
From there, the files can have some blank spaces, or filler, and using FixTVS will clean that up. Then, you either break out Handbrake or DVD shrink to make the conversion to either format, or to bring the movie down from it's 8 something gig size, to less than 4.7 gigs so you can copy it on the cheap DVD-R 4.7 DVD's. Handbrake and even DVD shrink will not get past the copy right protection, and why you need a program like DVD fab to so that portion of the process. |
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VOBblanker will do the same thing as FixVTS, but it can also remove parts of the dvd that you don't want as well. Don't want the previews, get rid of them. Don't want the making of videos, get rid of them. This will free up space. That way DVD Shrink will have to do less compression and the resultant output will be of a higher quality. But if it is higher quality you want, I would use DVD Rebuilder. DVD Rebuilder takes longer that DVD Shrink but the output is of a higher quality. That is because DVD Rebuilder actually reencodes the DVD whereas DVD Shrink removes date to shrink the video.
Vulcan94 |