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I have been using Slysofts CloneDVD2 for a while now for ripping my movies to ISO. The reason I do this is to keep the menu options and other special features of the movie, which I love. However there is the downfall of the larger ISO files instead of compressing to Divx or other formats to make the movies smaller. Usually with CloneDVD2 I get the ISO files down to about 4-6gb each and the quality is still not as great if I just put the regular dvd in. I have also used AnyDVD to just rip the full image to my hard drive and it works great... but again I have to worry about the ISO taking up 8+ gb of space. I have a 1tb drive at the moment and space is really not a big deal....(i know that sounds contradicting) I can always add another TB and be ok..
My question is... what is the best way to rip these regular old dvds to play on my 1080p setup? I havent gotten around to ripping Blueray just yet. Id like to perfect my DVD ripping before I get into the blueray thing.
Thanks for your help.
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This format is also readable in XBMC with no problems
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2010-01-25, 06:11
(This post was last modified: 2010-01-25, 06:14 by Balthazar2k4.)
Another option would be to recompress the movie with a something like RipBot264. This can reduce the file size substantially with little quality degradation (depending on settings). I do recommend a quad core machine as a minimum as H264 encoding is very intensive and can be time consuming. On my i7 920 @ 4.2 it takes about 30 minutes at CRF 18.
EDIT: I missed the part about keeping extras and what not. That is a catch-22. If you want to keep everything AND keep the quality, use MakeMKV, but keep in mind there is NO compression involved so an 8gb disc is about and 8gb MKV (if you keep all of the languages).
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Thumbs up for Handbrake an excellent tool to compress to mkv or mp4 file and keep the quality. Its not the fastest due to all theencoding but works like a charm.
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I'll vote for a 2 software solution -
AnyDvd to set to copy files to drive
DVD Shrink to reduce size and remove languages etc that you don't want.
I don't shrink any of my DVDs as drive space is cheap. A 1:1 copy will always be superior to a compressed copy and while I appreciate Handbrake, my choice would remain with keeping the original Movie TS folder structure or create one large VOB file which can be played sans all the menus.
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