DVD Backup or Ripping

[Kornman00]

So I'm wanting to take all my DVDs and either rip the content (hopefully in an automated process, that includes the 'extra content' that usually acompanies DVD), or just back them up (hopefully not in a way that requires me to create a full 4.7 iso for each disc)

Any suggestions from your personal experiences? I'm willing to shell some money out if the software is just -that- good.

[Zeph]

depends on how you define extra content and automated.

Extra content means not automated.

Automated means .iso.

[Kornman00]

Extra content. You know. Outtakes, etc. Shit you don't get with Netflix or the joke they call itunes.

Automated. Like, I pop in the DVD, tell it to rip all the video to .avi or .mkv (which supports subtiltes).

[Amit]

If I'm not mistaken, all the special features videos and stuff are the same as the film itself, so the content will be rippable. I know some programs that will rip the video no problem provided you go through and select which files exactly you want ripped (you can preview them so you know which is which). Of course you can always set it to rip everything on the disc. Based on this article (http://lifehacker.com/380702/five-best-dvd-ripping-tools) the best one for you would probably be MakeMKV (http://makemkv.com/). I've never used it before, though, so I have no idea how large the files will be.

[t3h m00kz]

http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/

bypasses protection

[Zeph]

If I'm not mistaken, all the special features videos and stuff are the same as the film itself, so the content will be rippable. I know some programs that will rip the video no problem provided you go through and select which files exactly you want ripped (you can preview them so you know which is which). Of course you can always set it to rip everything on the disc. Based on this article (http://lifehacker.com/380702/five-best-dvd-ripping-tools) the best one for you would probably be MakeMKV (http://makemkv.com/). I've never used it before, though, so I have no idea how large the files will be.

Yeah, they're on the disk just the same, but intelligently organizing them with subtitles and making a queue for encoding is not automatic. It'd be all or nothing on whether you want the pre-movie trailers, FBI warnings, and THISMOVIEDOTCOM special feature scenes with automation.

[Patrickssj6]

I always use AnyDVD HD for ripping and then Handbrake (free) for converting (into H.264/MKV). You can select the tracks you want to convert (including extras). Been doing this for years with DVDs/BluRays.

[Rainbow Dash]

OGMRip on Linux lets you rip dvd tracks to just about any format you want, with loads of compression options, so if that's an option, I'd suggest it.

[Kornman00]

Yeah, they're on the disk just the same, but intelligently organizing them with subtitles and making a queue for encoding is not automatic. It'd be all or nothing on whether you want the pre-movie trailers, FBI warnings, and THISMOVIEDOTCOM special feature scenes with automation.
Except you're wrong. MakeMKV does exactly what you said, automatically. It's not all or nothing. You can select a minimum time (default is 2mins), and if a clip is below that (FBI warnings), it won't even bother listing it for your approval. After that, you can select each title's (from the queue) audio and subtitle channels you want, which always default to your chosen language.

Takes about 15mins to process a typical DVD so far. Only 'complaint' I have with MKV is that there are no encoding options, so the video is pretty much the same size as it was on the DVD. However, right now I don't care to decrypt to the HDD first, *then* encode to whatever file. I'll worry about a different encoding at a later date.

So Amit wins. For actually taking the time to search for solutions instead of throwing his hands up in the air with 'that's all impossibru'.

[Masterz1337]

I use handbreak primarily for this on my mac, but I'm pretty sure they have a PC version too.

[t3h m00kz]

mac AND pc?

impossibru!!!

[Zeph]

Except you're wrong. MakeMKV does exactly what you said, automatically. It's not all or nothing. You can select a minimum time (default is 2mins), and if a clip is below that (FBI warnings), it won't even bother listing it for your approval. After that, you can select each title's (from the queue) audio and subtitle channels you want, which always default to your chosen language.

Takes about 15mins to process a typical DVD so far. Only 'complaint' I have with MKV is that there are no encoding options, so the video is pretty much the same size as it was on the DVD. However, right now I don't care to decrypt to the HDD first, *then* encode to whatever file. I'll worry about a different encoding at a later date.

So Amit wins. For actually taking the time to search for solutions instead of throwing his hands up in the air with 'that's all impossibru'.

fuck off

You set a minimum time and you lose everything, including special features that are under that time such as deleted scenes.
Our precious Serenity has deleted scenes shorter than an FBI warning.
If you want them, but not the FBI warning you have to do more than insert disk push buton.

MKV is only a container. It's not a compression.

[Zeph]

Except you're wrong. MakeMKV does exactly what you said, automatically. It's not all or nothing. You can select a minimum time (default is 2mins), and if a clip is below that (FBI warnings), it won't even bother listing it for your approval. After that, you can select each title's (from the queue) audio and subtitle channels you want, which always default to your chosen language.

Takes about 15mins to process a typical DVD so far. Only 'complaint' I have with MKV is that there are no encoding options, so the video is pretty much the same size as it was on the DVD. However, right now I don't care to decrypt to the HDD first, *then* encode to whatever file. I'll worry about a different encoding at a later date.

So Amit wins. For actually taking the time to search for solutions instead of throwing his hands up in the air with 'that's all impossibru'.

fuck off

You set a minimum time and you lose everything, including special features that are under that time such as deleted scenes.
Our precious Serenity has deleted scenes shorter than an FBI warning.
If you want them, but not the FBI warning you have to do more than insert disk push buton.

MKV is only a container. It's not a compression.

[Kornman00]

No, you fuck off zeph. Nobody likes a double poster.

You set a minimum time and you lose somethings, not everything.

And I was talking about MakeMKV.

No go be unproductive someplace else.

[Zeph]

Oh noes I missed a comma.
You also don't seem to understand what "all" is in terms of things on a DVD.

No, if a title you have selected for either the backup or the conversion with MakeMKV into a new container is below that threshold it is dropped and you won't have a checkbox to check.
I'm not saying if a chapter inside your DVD is short the whole thing doesn't get added since the chapters are ultimately markers that have no impact on the video file itself.

You ask a broad question ('extra content') and you get a broad answer.
The stuff on a DVD is indexed. These indexed pieces are considered titles and the player will play them progressively from the lowest number first unless told to go elsewhere.

If you want all of it, you can easily mash button and get all of it in a container like an ISO automatically.

If you don't want all of it, you can go through selecting what you what (not talking about time thresholds here since that's a horrible way to build an index of what's on the disk) and organizing the order you want it in and the names you want on chapters/etc (MakeMKV doesn't do this). The thing you're using (MakeMKV in this case) isn't smart enough to say, "oh this is a FBI warning I shouldn't index it," or, "hmm this looks like it's a 30 second deleted scene. It's below the threshold but it's a deleted scene so I'll add it to the list."

With MakeMKV the 120 second thing is just a condition when it builds an index based on what it finds on the disk. When you push button for extracting the videos off the disk each title goes to its own container. If it's below the "120 seconds" it would never reach that stage. The idea is to keep it low so scripted titles and quick transitions don't make it to that index but not high enough that it cuts out actual content.

[Kornman00]

tl;dr

[t3h m00kz]

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[t3h m00kz]

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[Amit]

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