RE: DVD ripper

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's what I've been using... I've got the latest version 6.0.2.2
(fully
paid & registered copy) and I've been using it for several years. Up
'till
now it has handled everything I've thrown at it.

I recently lost a disk array with some of my DVD rips on, so I dragged the
big-box-o-DVDs down from the loft to set about re-ripping the ones I wanted
back. I've come across a couple that it absolutely will not rip: Monty
Python's Meaning of Life, and South Park the imaginationland. If I so much
as have either of these discs in the drive DVDFab will crash within seconds
of trying to open them, and as soon as I close the DVDFab error message
window, the PC bluescreens instantly - I've done this on two separate Win7
boxes. On an XP box, as soon as DVDFab starts to read the disc, it just
instantly disappears without even throwing an error.

I've been looking around for something else I can try to use to rip these,
but so far every so-called free trial has been crippled in a way that makes
it useless, i.e. will only rip a small part of the DVD, or stamps a
watermark on it... I found one or two that had a time-limit as the only
restriction, but none of these ripped to VIDEO_TS folders with VOB files
in,
or to ISO files... :-(

So, all I need is something other than DVDFab, which will rip a DVD to VOB
files, which will rip the whole movie rather than just 10 minutes of it,
and
which won't plaster it with watermarks. I don't care if the restriction is
that it will only rip 5 discs, or that it will only run for a week... I
only
have 2 discs to rip anyway (that I know of so far).

I've been recommended DVDShrink, but I've just spent 10 minutes going round
their endless hell of circular links trying to find the deliberately
obfuscated download location via the forums - that just reminded me of the
*STUPID* arsing about I had to do to get XBMC downloaded, so I gave up
PDQ...

TIA

Paul G.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
John Benfield
Sent: 13 October 2009 16:20
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] DVD ripper

Personally I use DVDfab (http://dvdfab.com/free.htm) handles
everything so
far.


2009/10/13 Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>:
> Anyone recommend a quick & easy DVD ripper, one that is either
free, or
has a trial period?...
>
> I have the (paid for) software that I normally use, but I've just come
across a couple of DVD's in my collection that it absolutely will not
rip...
- I've tried on no less than 3 separate machines; two Windows 7 boxes,
& 1
XP Pro. These discs consistently make both Win7 boxes blue screen, and the
XP one just craps out the software. It's completely repeatable, as soon as
I
put in one of the "troublesome" discs, I get one of the
aforementioned
problems... I've ripped dozens of other DVDs in the last day or two (and
hundreds over the last couple of years) with no problem, so I'm fairly sure
it's an issue with the software I use not liking something about these
discs, so I want to try something else...
>
> TIA
>
> Paul G.


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