DVD Ripping Nightmare
Whenever I purchase a DVD I make a backup copy for personal use (let’s hear it for fair use laws). Unfortunately I found myself unable to successfully rip Kung Fu Panda and Star Wars: The Clone Wars using Mac The Ripper (V2.6.6 – 3.0). Seems that SW: TCW was mastered with intentionally bad sectors, while KFP appeared to suffer from similar woes.
Frustrated after making several DVD coasters, I finally resorted to powering up the PC laptop and firing up the latest version of DVDFab Platinum. Ripped and burned these two DVDs with no further issues.
Let me tell ya, DVDFab is the way you want to go if you’re limited to software options for the PC. DVDFab will both rip and burn your data in one step.
In my experience, there’s a couple of things to note when using DVDFab:
- Selecting “DVD9″ in the Quality dropdown menu will require a dual-layer DVD disk. Instead, select “DVD5″
- To remove subtitles, uncheck everything in the “Subpicture” column. Why they don’t identify this as “subtitles” I couldn’t tell you.
- To save space, uncheck all unrequired selections in the “Audio” column. Every little bit saved adds more space for the movie.
That’s it. Now just sit back, pick up a good book, and wait for the burn to complete. May I suggest How To Talk Dirty And Influence People?
Can’t believe you are using Mac the Ripper these days. The guy that develops that is a creep and an a-hole. MakeMKV will rip both DVD an BR. I also use HandBrake. I don’t burn back to DVD or BR disc. I save to MKV and put on hard drive as backup. No quality lost and retains 5.1. Everything for home theater is run from PLEX in the basement.
I’ve since moved on to using Popcorn. Does a great job, creates a very compact file that looks fantastic on the iPod. Mac the Ripper is great, but Handbrakes takes quite a while to do its business. I’m loving me my Popcorn!