DVD Ripping

[Stuart]

I'm shortly going to publish a tutorial post on DVD Ripping, but wanted to add a link here for any follow up conversation.

What do you use - why?

Also - what need do you have for ripping DVDs - personally, professionally of for support reasons?

I use Handbrake and DVD43 on my PC and Handbrake on my Mac. The why is simple - one tool, multiple OSes and its free, extremely powerful and I think easy to use.

[paschott]

Most of my need to rip a DVD has been to convert it to something I could use on my own portable player. To that end, I've used a mixture of tools, including something by SPB Software. DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink, and whatever is recommended on the DVD Ripping forums currently as the encryption seems to change. I have not felt any need to worry about Blu-Ray at this time.

As far as Ministry is concerned, I have little need to rip a DVD unless I need to extract a piece of it for something we're allowed to show. However, that's not a concern at my current church. I'd be interested to know what uses people have for this in a church setting besides helping people learn to backup their own DVDs.

[Stuart]

As far as Ministry is concerned, I have little need to rip a DVD

In Ministry terms I've done a fair bit of ripping, but I'm not sure the term applies to VHS ....

Last year our Church celebrated it's 25th birthday and as part of it I was asked to produce four or five 5m video pieces that depicted different aspects of the Church over the previous 25yrs. I spent hours extracting PAL video from VHS tapes and I'm still amazed that a. we'd kept them and b. they were still readable.

I ended up with 4 x 5m films /montages that depicted
1. Speakers
2. The children / youth
3. The rest of us
4. Mike Warnke - a good and faithful friend to our Church and hugely funny man!

All of them covered the 25yrs and these four films took me >5mths of work in my spare time to produce but worth the effort in the end.

[Stuart]

little need to rip a DVD unless I need to extract a piece of it for something we're allowed to show.

This is what wing clips is for.

[josh.willits]

We used a trial version of Sly Soft Clove DVDMobile. We had some issues with EasyWorship opening and playing DVD's a while back. We used it to convert VOB files to AVI as a fix to show the video in EasyWorship. I've used DVDFab before, too, which has also worked well, and was recommended to be by a friend of mine who does a lot of video production work.

[Stuart]

Been a while since I tried Slysoft's offering - perhaps I should re-investigate.

As for DVDFab I've never heard of. Maybe I can find some time to investigate it 0- thanks for the pointer.