Comments on: How to rip DVDs to your hard drive

By: roxanne

roxanne — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:31:11 +0000

I’m stuck, I have used dvdfab & stored the dvd file on my external hard drive. When I connect the hard drive to my dvd player it asks to open the file which then shows all the titles. I select the main movie there is an error not video codec?

Can anyone help? I just want an easy way to transfer my dvd collection to my external hard drive & then play through my dvd player…….thanks

By: RichardL

RichardL — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:55:14 +0000

Is there a way to rip the Audio only from a DVD to Windows Media Player 11, running on Vista or XP?

By: shawn

shawn — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:24:04 +0000

i want to rip my own home video to my computer so i can edit it and my own family movies

By: adam fiveson

adam fiveson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:15:06 +0000

I’ve been using AnyDVD, DVD Shrink, Decrypt for some time now… taking my collection of about 4000 titles (I collect DVD’s) and putting them onto an array of 1.5TB hard drives for use on a Slingcatcher… essentially creating a jukebox for my collection.

I am on a PC… not a mac.

I’ve noticed there are certain DVD’s which will work with Decrypter, but not with Shrink and vise versa.

Now I’m facing a new issue… several of my commercial DVD’s don’t even show up at all… they will not mount… the drive (J:) stays untitled, and when I double click the disk letter, the message is “please insert disk”.

Is there a way for me to get windows to recognize these disks?

I am using a Lightscribe DVDMulti Recorder to mount the disks.

Thanks in advance for helping me here,

Adam

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:03:58 +0000

Is this software capable of ripping Blue Ray? If not, do you provide anything that does?

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:05:04 +0000

I am sorry – I think I missed something. I am new to the tar files. I finally got them downloaded, saved and unzipped, but how do I install them. It talks about installing on their web page, but I don’t know where I am supposed to put the coding. I did read that tar files could be installed on an XP op system. Am I wrong on this? Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks – H

By: BigP

BigP — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:56:50 +0000

I use clonedvd and Anydvd it’s flawless, works a dream..

By: Ernie

Ernie — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:50:07 +0000

Great info. Downloaded dvdfab and now i’m rippin and watching movies on my vista home media center pc. One question though, when i pull up the dvd library in media center i see the titles but the cover art is not there. Is there a way to get the cover art and dvd info to display in media center?

By: Gloria

Gloria — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:38:57 +0000

You make it sound pretty easy! Does this work for Region 2 DVDs as well? Or is there another way to do those?

By: RkyLeX

RkyLeX — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:55:37 +0000

Can’t make my xbox 360 to read and stream the video_ts folder for all my movies. It is on Windows Media Center, and xbox finds the folder but it shows like empty, what do i need to do?

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By: george

george — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:00:09 +0000

In your “Hardware For Ripping DVDs” section, you dont really talk about hardware for ripping DVDs at all.. You discuss about where to store ripped files – external file storage and NAS..

What about the DVD/CD drive and ripping software combination that you used?

It is difficult to find DVD/CD hardware and software combination which will give you an accurate rip.. Often I have tried to rip a CD and maybe only half the tracks get ripped onto the hard drive and some of those tracks dont work..

Do you have any advice about that?

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:35:25 +0000

How does DVD Play work with VLC? I downloaded both but there are no instructions for DVD Play? Also I wanted to use My Movies, but do not have Windows Media Center installed, is that my only option?

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:57:34 +0000

Thank you Lance. That’s exactly what I needed to know.

By: Lance

Lance — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:58:06 +0000

Laura, you have to chose “open directory” under the file menu of the VLV media player, than choose the Video_TS folder-that should bring up the DVD Menu (or previews if there are some on the disk). This is the “DVD Disc” experience you are looking for. Don’t open the folder containing the files! I am a mac guy so watching ripped movies on a PC is new to me . . . what a pain compared to the mac, and its built-in DVD player-None of this codecs BS. It is a lot less complicated. I rip my dvd to my macs HD using something called “mac the ripper” and I start watching them with the DVD Player that is superior in performance and emulation to anything I have seen on the PC side. Apple’s DVD player is very similar in user interface to the controls you have in a stand alone DVD player. Stuff just works on the mac side without hours spent online troubleshooting incompatibilities that you get here on the PC side. That said, PCs have many things going for them over the mac-customizability, for one, way superior game play!. I will always have both PCs and macs at home and the office-but it is true that the learning curb on the pc side is steep, and never ending. It is sad that pc folk are stuck w/ windows. The mac just works as intended with most of your time spent learning programs, not learning how to make the computer work. I spent two hours of my time today trouble shooting a “codec” problem on my pc instead of organizing my movie collection ( and transferring my rips from a mac external harddrive). This just doesnt happen with my macs.