The best part of all this is that from now on you are all configured. Once you are back to the main screen, hit ‘start’ and you can just leave the program to do its thing. Once this is done, click ‘Ok’ 5 – Rip the DVD Note: The frame resolution varies on each DVD. This creates a 2 GB file per movie and takes an average of 3 hours for a 90 minute movie.Ĭhanging the encoding method to 1-pass and altering the audio format will cut that time down quite significantly.

I want my movies to be really good quality rips so I set everything quite high. Of course the settings are all about personal preference. Then simply make sure everything in that box matches everything in the screenshot below. When your disc has been scanned in, make sure that ‘generic’ is set on the profile section at the bottom and click on ‘edit’ (just above the start button). This is the hardest part but it is still very easy. 4 – Set the configuration you wish to use Note: When you first insert a DVD it will ask you to select a region, and if you only ever use DVD’s from one region you can ask it not to show this again. If you are ripping a TV Series or something else, you can manually select other tracks. Once you have selected the correct profile, insert your DVD and it will immediately scan it and select the title it believes is the movie (I’ve ripped about 60 films with DVDRip so far and it only got it wrong on T2: Ultimate Edition) this is usually the longest track on the Disc. The one we are interested in is ‘DVD-to-Mobile -> Generic’. When you first open DVDFab you will notice it has a lot of options on the side. You can download the free trial from 2 - Open DVDFab Here is how you do it: 1 - Download and install DVDFab After much hunting on the internet I came across DVDFab, which can silently rip encrypted DVD’s and allows you to rip your DVD in as little as 2 clicks (and one of those is opening the program). I enjoyed using Handbrake but that didn’t work very well with movies which used encryption. I’ve found that a lot of solutions in the past do DVD ripping very well but are often convoluted processes that take quite a lot of tweaking to get right. I should point out that DVDFab is not free software however it is very reasonably priced and even comes with a very generous unlimited trial which lasts for 30 days if I remember correctly.

I didn’t really see why in this day-and-age ripping a movie to your hard drive should take more than a few clicks. I often hear praise for software applications such as HandBrake and DVDShrink, but after using them myself in the past I found myself wanting a simpler solution.

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