Re: Re: Windows home server

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I use DVDdecrypter.  It's been around for years, and the odd newer
disk
proves a little tricky, but there is another app called RipIt4Me (which
wraps dvddecrypter and another app) that can handle those ok.

Once ripped I pass them through DVD2One to extract just the main feature
and shrink it slightly so it can be backed up ona DVD-R.  If it's a disk
with multiple episodes, I use DVDShrink and save each out as its own
little DVD.

For HDDVD and BluRay there is BackupHDDVD and EVODemux which leave you
with the movie as a single .evo file.  This can be played in Windows
Media Player and MCE if you have the Sonic Scenarist codecs (and plenty
of disk space - HD movies are typically 15 to 20Gb for the main feature
video plus one 5.1 audio stream).

All these apps can be found with a quick Google.

HTH

Mal









Paul Bendall wrote:

> Mal,
>
> How do you go about ripping your DVD's to HDD? I am well acquainted
> with ripping CDs for Music and use FLAC for lossless quality. But
> completely new to ripping DVD's. What software do you use? What format
> do you rip to? Do you use compression? As this is OT maybe you could
> start a new thread?
>
> In the instance of streaming DVD's then RAID 5 is of benefit as a RAID
> 5 is good for read operations and still gives you some parity.
>
> Paul
>
>