A long time since I have copied a DVD film, and have forgotten which program I used! Any thoughts?
Something basic to copy a commercial DVD so that I can watch it direct from PC rather than faff about finding the DVD. No need for super high quality - just need to end up with a 720p avi or mp4 file, usually around 800MB. I already have Windows and VLC media players, which may suit?
Thanks.
makeMKV ?
Handbrake ?
Doesn't (at least didn't used to) do decryption
Done a couple with FormatFactory - it's on Softpedia.
That's a single layer DVD.
A single layer DVD holds about 4.7GB.
Chapters, by convention, are a gigabyte a piece.
Two hour Hollywood content uses dual layer DVD and holds 8.5GB or so. The disc has 9.4GB capacity, but it need not be filled right out to the end.
On the dual layer DVD, the "layer split" has to be placed so the two sides of the DVD are "relatively close in size". If you see odd sizes for the chapters, part of that is engineering the layer split.
When people rip Hollywood content (8.5GB), they re-code and either change CODEC or change bitrate in the encoder to further compress the movie. This then, allows a new DVD to be prepared using 4.7GB single-sided media.
*******At a bare minimum, the ripper uses DeCSS to remove the Content Scrambling System. Hollywood media has encryption, and DeCSS can remove it. Medias are protected with all sorts of other stuff. Maybe Casino Royale has a kind of Windows malware on it.
But for junk, like a DVD from the delete bin, just DeCSS is sufficient for those. I'm not a movie collector, and my "test disc" is Animal House, and that rips fine using just DeCSS in the selected tool.
This will give some names and things to research. Makemkv is mentioned in the first one. I may have tried that at some point, and it ripped the two "features" on my disc OK.
My video card has a nice encoder... if you don't care about quality, it goes quick as snot (11x real time). When someone asked the other day, "how to compress 1TB of noisy non-descript video", that's what I suggested. Video purists don't really like hardware encoded content all that much. They like CPU encoding (2-pass) better.
Paul
FFMPEG is better.
The GUI tools just get in the way.
If something has quirks, you need overrides to fix it.
I got NVENC working on FFMPEG the other day, on Ubuntu 2004, using the source in the tree and just recompiling with different options to ./configure. I've been trying to fix that for eons, and now it works. And NVENC under Linux is faster than NVENC under Windows, which was the reason I wanted to test that stuff. It still doesn't go as fast as the developer at NVidia said it would.
Paul
Thanks for all the suggestions. Handbrake is apparently 64 bit only, and I installed Format Factory which refused to run.
Been playing with VLC which works, although I had forgotten how long the whole process takes.
handbrake 1.3.3 is 32 bit available.
Thanks for that. I'm going round in circles, though. The link is described as x32-x64 yet whenever I download and try to install, an error message appears, telling me Handbrake is 64 bit only :-(
I give up! install Linux and wipe 32 bit windows from the universe!
Or send it to me and I'll rip it for ya
x86 32 bit
x64 \___ 64 bit x86_64 /
x86/x64 Both (and not standardized either, as a descriptor) Some softwares, when they mean both, just remove those numbers entirely.
*******Platform x64
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