Comments on: How to rip DVDs to your hard drive

By: arlexia

arlexia — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:07:52 +0000

I am needing some help. I have dvdfad to rip my movies. But what i want to know is if I will be able to play them on my external hardrive that i plug in to my ps3.I cant quite figure out how to convert the ripped files to play on it. Any suggestions would be great thank u

By: Nobbygrub

Nobbygrub — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:42:53 +0000

Hi,
I am looking for a program where I can burn my DVD’s to my computer reasonably quickly, store them on computor during day and then at night download the whole lot to an external hard drive.
Any ideas?

By: Philippe Coles

Philippe Coles — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:38:34 +0000

I have a DVD collection of about 1500. I would like to copy them to a drive. I would also like to use Apple TV to play them back on my TV. Is there an efficient way of copying that many DVDs to the drive? Also, how do you get the movie info (tags) without having to manually enter the title, actors, etc., so that it is categorized within the Apple TV interface or any other interface such as FrontRow?

Thanks for the help.

By: Nympheel

Nympheel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:09:08 +0000

Dear Lance:

Thank you very much for your step-by-step tutorial!

I wonder how much time do you usually take to rip one DVD disc (say 4.7 GB) per your method. Would you kindly please share this experience with us?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:23:52 +0000

Hi.

I followed every step in this guide and used HandBrake. Whenever I go to play the DVD, it always comes out all pixelated. The audio is fine, but the video is terrible. Is there something I should be aware of to make the video clear?

Thanks!

By: joe S,

joe S, — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:16:35 +0000

I tried your link up top. It didn’t work. I’d like to take some of the movies I have with me. I just bought this computer and am only familiar with some of the new stuff.

What can you tell me?

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:50:43 +0000

Can I rip and shrink a six hour DVD with these programs?

By: Tayla

Tayla — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:42:48 +0000

I have a mac computer and it has handbrake on it. Whenever i use handbrake though the icons that are supposed 2 say start and source and etc are all gone so i cant encode my dvd movies how do i fix it?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:08:14 +0000

Hi I own alot of DVD’s of alot of series, and frankly I cant be bothered ripping them all one by one. Is there a way that one can do them simultaneously with the same software if they have multiple DVD drives?

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:57:33 +0000

This is cool. I never thought that my external hard drive was for backing up my files only. Anyway, I’m doing this now. Oh, and one more thing, if I format the hard drive, would the DVDs I ripped disappear, too?

By: mtz berto

mtz berto — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:02:07 +0000

what software do you recommended for storing music and videos on a PC?

By: eric carl

eric carl — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:38:13 +0000

Hi Kevin Wilson

Yes it’s very possible …. first get handbrake ( its free) use this to coppy and shrink your dvd in one step .I’ve been using MP4 format and puting all my movies (1121 in all ) on to a 2TB hard drive .. each movie is only about 1G .. now that you have your movie on your hard drive your going to need a media center.. cheap about $100 at besy buy .. i have a WD media center .it even has a remote to use with it . it hooks up to the tv via HDMI or any other cables that you would use to hook up a dvd player …

Thats it done hope it works for you . it does take time to rip all of them .. about 35min per movie but in the long run it’ll be nice to get rid of all the dvd’s taking up space … drop me a line if you need any help or want to trade movies.

By: Beck

Beck — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:01:54 +0000

Note that you can rips DVDs using VLC Media Player also. The programs you mentioned are good also. Keep up the great work!

By: Joni

Joni — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:54:04 +0000

I tried several ripping programs and had crazy trouble will all, EXCEPT for DVDFAB6. Easy and the copied DVD to DVD, they play on my laptop, DVD player and Xbox. No problems…Thanks for recommending it!

By: Kevin Wilson

Kevin Wilson — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:56:37 +0000

I would like to find some information….I want to burn my dvd collection (675 movies) to an external hard drive and then be able to play them back on my T.V. is this possible?
Thanks for all the help!!!