« previous next »
Pages:  [1]     Go Down

Author Topic: video DVD ripping / burning software etc  (Read 2378 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline fohat.digs

  • * Elevated Elder
  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 6533
  • Location: 35°55'N, 83°53'W
  • weird funny old guy
video DVD ripping / burning software etc
« on: Fri, 13 January 2012, 16:51:24 »
This is a very general question, and I am looking for opinions.

What ?

Members of this forum expressing personal subjective opinions ?

I have a variety of video materials, and I am looking for a good, compatible way to rip and store them long-term.

Having been through the drill with my huge music collection, I settled on buying/ripping/downloading/converting my music to .mp3 files of between 192-320 quality (depending on the source, my mood, etc). I assembled these into a directory structure of genre/artist/album/song and have 2 different removable/external hard drives for safekeeping.

Now I want to do something similar with my videos, which range from video recordings of my children (mostly .avi and .mov), to joke videos, to movies, YouTube downloads, whatever.

It appears to me that for now, MPEG-4 AVC is probably the best choice for long-term storage (if I pack these drives away and don't get them out for a decade or 2, I want to be able to read them on whatever the current computer/system happens to be).

Question 1: Do you mostly concur?

Question 2: What is the best free software to rip/convert whatever I have, to whatever I want to have?

Thanks in advance, Harry

PS - what is the best (free) way to download/save YouTube videos, anyway?
Logged
From the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 :

The Congress shall have Power

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

Offline 1uckyNumb3r7

  • Posts: 32
video DVD ripping / burning software etc
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 13 January 2012, 17:33:51 »
1. Not really. I always try and save my media in it's native format or a loseless format.

2. I think Handbrake might be what you are looking for. I used it for re-encoding my DVD collection at first, but then I just started saving the .ISO's so I didn't need it anymore http://handbrake.fr/

3. YouTube Downloader
Logged

Offline IvanIvanovich

  • Mr. Silk Underwear
  • Posts: 8199
  • Location: USA
video DVD ripping / burning software etc
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 13 January 2012, 21:46:34 »
I used to do handbrake, but have moved to freemake. It's a whatever format to whatever format transcoder and does a pretty good job and is a lot faster. The only thing, I strongly advise to manually set your desired bitrate to keep the file sizes down. Leaving it on auto resulted in some very large files, growing a 700mb avi to a 3gb mp4... but other than that it is pretty good software.
Logged

Offline SmallFry

  • ** Moderator Emeritus
  • Posts: 3887
  • Location: Wisconsin, USA
  • Leaving 6/15; returning 6/22 or so.
video DVD ripping / burning software etc
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 13 January 2012, 23:15:21 »
I do the Handbreak method, so +1 for that
Logged

Offline Malphas

  • Posts: 247
video DVD ripping / burning software etc
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 14 January 2012, 09:55:45 »
1. Not really.  To be honest this sounds like a pretty fruitless endeavour, having a large collection of lossy compressed video files from DVD source is going be so antiquated, in fact it already largely is.  Like having a huge VHS collection.  Home movies are different obviously, but I still wouldn't compress them, just keep them in whatever format they're already in.  You could convert them to a lossless format I suppose, but I doubt there's any point.

2. For actual commercial DVDs, I would just rip them to ISOs with no compression, if you really think they're worth archiving - after all they're just going to be released again in 1080p then probably 4320p at some point in the future anyway, so what's the point.  My preferred software for that is AnyDVD, but DVDFab HD Decrypter will do the same job, and is freeware.

Home movie stuff, leave as is.
Logged

Offline Lanx

  • Posts: 1915
video DVD ripping / burning software etc
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 14 January 2012, 13:23:24 »
don't you need anydvd for bypassing copyprotection? (idk, i haven't done any of this)
Logged

Offline reaper

  • ** Moderator Emeritus
  • Posts: 3076
video DVD ripping / burning software etc
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 14 January 2012, 14:02:52 »
Quote from: SmallFry;490062
I do the Handbreak method, so +1 for that

+2 for that.  =P
Logged
Att fly är livet, att dröja, döden.
Din Eli

Offline TheProfosist

  • Posts: 3671
  • Location: Wisconsin, USA
  • Custom Layouts Only!
video DVD ripping / burning software etc
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 15 January 2012, 04:09:49 »
Megui or grab a ton of cli tools your going to want something that can grab playlists and chapter for dvds use dvd decrypter ifo mode rip via chapter makesure you have iso splitting off then demux with eac3to. Handle audio with eac3to use avi synth + plugins/filters to x264 cli put into container using mkv merge.

Megui can handle dvds pretty well but it fails at bds.
Logged
Pages:  [1]     Go Up
« previous next »