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Ripping DvDs
Arrath
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First, if this veers towards illegal territory, mods please delete this.
Okay, I've got a NAS box over in the corner (up and running thanks to these forums) from which I can stream my music to any device in the house. I would like to do the same with my movie collection. So my question to you is, what program should I use to rip them? Preferably in a format that Xbox 360's can play.
I've been fumbling around with VLC player for a while now, and I just finally got it to spit out a video file that would play on my computer. Problem is, the audio was a good 10 seconds out of sync. So I'm turning to you guys.
Okay, I've got a NAS box over in the corner (up and running thanks to these forums) from which I can stream my music to any device in the house. I would like to do the same with my movie collection. So my question to you is, what program should I use to rip them? Preferably in a format that Xbox 360's can play.
I've been fumbling around with VLC player for a while now, and I just finally got it to spit out a video file that would play on my computer. Problem is, the audio was a good 10 seconds out of sync. So I'm turning to you guys.
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I'd tried making an image of the disc with MagicDisc, both in UIF and ISO, both would play the splash screens and company logos, then seemingly reach the end of the video without reaching the dvd menu.
I'm trying handbrake now.
Especially if you're in Linux.
Or on a Mac.
Really, on Windows too.
Initially I tried to rip an entire dvd with Handbrake, which it did. The sound worked, but the video was distorted, still encrypted I guess. I made sure Handbrake was pointing towards the correct location for VLC, at which point it just started crashing whenever I tried to start the process or preview. So I did the uninstall/restart/install/restart dance.
With Archer S1D1, it only 'saw' 5 of the 23 or so titles. And, again, didn't spit out usable files.
I just used VLC to stream title 4 from the Archer disc, which was episode one. The resulting file would play in VLC but not anything else, WMP, Zune, Xbox, etc. It was fine in VLC though, sound wasn't off, framerate wasn't choppy. So I ran that file through Handbrake, and it now works in everything.
I still want to go bash my head into a wall.
CSS encryption is way easier to deal with in Linux. I'll be dead honest and say that Handbrake alone is the reason I still keep a few gig of my hard drive dedicated to a Linux partition...I'll just boot into it, rip the DVD, boot back out. If I'm doing episodes, I'll just queue them up to go overnight.
EDIT: I know it's a pain in the ass, but it's a known pain in the ass. Hell, you can just buy a 4GB thumb drive down at Best Buy for $12, and install Ubuntu to it and boot off that (just mount your NTFS partition as a place to save the completed rips).
On another note, Handbrake is the first program I've seen that maxed out my i7.
Rip the discs that you own and then use Handbrake to convert them over. I use .mp4 (.m4v) so that the files will play on my PS3 & other boxes since the .mkv container has very limited support.
Ah, forgot that there was the free bit of ****** that would just strip the CSS.
Yeah, that works.
And in Handbrake, if you just choose the "Regular" profile, that'll produce a .m4v that should play just fine on your Xbox.
It's strange that handbrake is giving you that issue.
You are the second person who has just started down this path having weird issues I have heard about this week.
Honestly I have been ripping videos for various formats since 2003 and Handbrake has been the best solution. For decrypting on windows if you aren't overly opposed to shelling out cash I would get anydvd and anydvd hd (if you have a bluray drive) as your decrypter. If you are re-compressing a VLC stream quality is probably impacted by the double-compress.
I'll tinker with this some more and consider moving to anydvd.
Basically what's the advantage to doing it in linux instead of win7.
Out of curiosity, why not just Handbrake with VLC installed? cost is free. DvD Fab cost money correct?
No, I believe there's a portion of DF that's just the decryption bit, and it's free.
And from what I understand, doing it with VLC installed isn't quite as seamless (unlike on OSX where it really is).
If you're going to be using it often, a Linux partition (or, better, a bootable Linux USB device with some persistence, via Lili) might be worthwhile, because the Linux version of Handbrake is (in my opinion) quite a bit better. The Windows version really is the bastard child of the group.
EDIT: Though you'll wind up with the same end results...there's no difference in output, just in interface.
The free portion of DVD FAB Decrypts the disc and rips it to the hard drive. Then you can just fire up Hand brake.
VLC has very limited hardware acceleration, it just eats up CPU cycles. When you're converting video you don't want that. Combign that with trying to convert the files with the disc as the source. Unless you have a beefy system just rip it the harddrive to save yourself the time.
That's how it is on the Mac.
I will admit on windows I have never tried it that way because I use AnyDVD (HD) when I had to.
I have since quit doing any encoding on Windows once they released MakeMKV to let me rip blurays under osx.
Question: What kind of encoding speeds in fps are you guys getting by doing the rip to hard drive then handbrake out of curiosity? Curious to see if Handbrake caught up with the OSX version - it used to be dog slow but I know it got much better much quicker with the .9x releases.
This is not, in fact, how it works on Windows. Which is why I generally recommend doing it in Linux. To read the disc directly you need something like AnyDVD; to my knowledge VLC won't work, and I don't know of any other free option that allows "seamless" rips like that.
No idea....fast. Way, way over 100fps on an i5. I don't know about the Mac version (only Mac I ran it on was a G4) but there's little difference between the Linux and Windows versions, speed-wise.
Also, as for speed, doing it in handbrake this way lets me encode a 42 minute TV show in about 8 minutes with an i7 920 that is slightly overclocked. The most recent versions of Handbrake have finally gone full multi threaded and it's one of the few "real world" applications I've ever seen that is able to pin all 8 threads to 100%.
This thread is starting to irritate me with the people chiming in without reading first. Especially the ones who don't use windows so don't know about the software differences & limitations.
I use it for all my Blu-Rays and DVDs.
I apologize I don't use windows anymore, I was just trying to be nice and offer up what I thought would be a possibility. If you really want to know how to do it - which I have tested 1920 times as of today - you want the following setups. I just never offer it up first because the internet for some reason doesn't like the solutions offered below because they cost money.
Windows.
1. AnyDVD , AnyDVD HD (I never suggest this combo because people immediately bitch about the price and offer up some half ass decryptor/encoder package that is pure shit)
2. Handbrake for DVDs
3. RipBot x264 for BluRays
Mac.
1. Handbrake 64bit , VLC 64bit for DVDs
2. MakeMKV for BluRay decryption to .mkv files, use Handbrake for encoding - Once again people bitch about the price but it's the only bluray decryptor available for Mac.
3. Vidalin for tagging
There. Done. For encoding for apple products, these are the solutions.
If you want to rip-then encode DVDs on windows, I suggest the following workflow:
1. Buy and Install everything above.
2. Find DVDShrink. It's getting harder, it's older and in the graveyard of software.
3. Set the maximum medium size to some stupid number like 500gb... just bigger then 10gb.
4. Rip the movie to a folder, repeat.
5. Batch in handbrake (IF windows handbrake supports queing which it did)
You can batch rip bluray using AnyDVD HD tools that come with the install, but I have never found a machine that can (rip then encode) quicker then (encode straight from the disc). The only real benefit is once again the queing, but you will lose out in overall speed of the process.
On Mac you almost should que blurays since you have to rip first anyway.
Handbrake can do approximately 60 movies in a row without getting flaky from a single que on windows last time I checked.
Though it doesn't have blu-ray subtitles yet. I use VidCoder for blu-rays without subtitles and RipBot 264 for those with subtitles. It takes way longer for ripbot to scan them since that program is just gluing a bunch of other programs together and needs to extract all the video and audio streams before it can do anything, while VidCoder/HandBrake just has everything in one DLL.
Handbrake recently got audio gain adjustments (changing audio volume) checked in and I've got that added. I'm going to make a few more improvements and try to get a new version out in a week or so.
This looks awesome. I'll be checking this out when I get back home.