DVD ripping questions and advice

sometimes, when i burn a movie, the last 2 or 3 chapters skip, freeze, and become unreadable. has anyone else experienced this? i don't think this has anything to do with level of compression, because i have burnt some compressed movies without a hitch, and i have burnt one uncompressed movie that had the same issue (though i removed all the menus and extras and just burnt the movie itself). i don't think it has to do with scratches, because i have had the same problem with unscratched discs.

i'm using dvdshrink to rip the movies. i have used both dvd decrypter and nero to burn the movies, and both have given me discs with and without the problem.

i have used tdk dvd-r+ for everything.

my laptop is pretty new. bought it in september.

any ideas?

I only use imgburn for burning now, but I think that within the 1 gig of crap that nero installs in your system is something to test the quality of your burn. I think it is called Nero CDSpeed of something. I don't know if they are skipping playing on your computer or a standalone. If it is your standalone maybe setting the booktype to dvd-rom may help.

they skip on my computer's dvd player. on my standalone (my ps2), it doesn't even skip when it gets to the end, it just says the disc is unreadable.

i'll try imgburn though

same problem with imgburn. does that mean i have a shitty dvd drive? could it be dvdshrink?

SO FUCKING FRUSTRATING

Try clonedvd or something else.

Any advice on which ripping software to use on a three-year-old Macbook running Tiger?

Handbrake: http://handbrake.fr/

[You'll also need to install VLC into your Applications folder because handbrake uses a componenent of it to decrypt DVDs, even if you don't use the VLC player yourself: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/]

Thanks!

second handbrake

Any advice on which ripping software to use on a PC? I know fuckall about DVD ripping, and I want to learn.

handbreak looks pretty annoying and open sourcey - anyone tried any of the commercial products out there

I swear by DVDdecrypter, if you're on a PC. But I keep reading/being told Handbrake is excellent; have you tried it?

DVDdecrypter and DVDShrink have given me problems the past few years so now I'm using DVD Fab 5 and haven't run into anything it can't crack.

What kind of blank DVD-R brands should I use?

is there a better (free) program than WMP for cutting dvd's? limiting me to 150 mins playing time and taking ages to rip is breaking my heart, and some advice would be much appreciated.

ice cr?m do you want to rip or compress

ive used handbrake, works great

Depends what you want to do, and are you on a Mac? If you're just ripping the DVD to a watchable file, Handbrake does the job great. If you want the full iso with menus and commentary tracks and everything, Fairmount is your ticket on Mac - it just allows you to copy the DVD files directly, decrypting it as you copy.

I used to use Popcorn to compress DL DVDs to a single layer DVD disc - but you had to use MTR to get it off the disc in the first place. not sure what's in vogue now - if you google 'rip different' I think you can find a forum where mac nerds geek out about how to maximize their movie stealing efficiency

hey turns out my dvd drive is kinda broken - as in will not relinquish a disc once inserted - thx 4 the advice tho dudes

the new dvd drives in their laptops are awful, you can't use VLC or whatever to circumvent region lock anymore. but if you get the matsushita you can flash it to rpc firmware or whatever (if you run windows that is)

my twin system of DVD Shrink and Burnaware serves me very well.

I've just started using Handbrake because I have tons of backed up DVDs on my hard-drive that I don't really care about the bonus features so I wanted to convert them to mkv. It's doing great and the quality is astounding, but for some reason when I queue up a batch it stores cache files on my C:\ for each DVD, and doesn't get rid of them! I run out of disk space after converting just one or two movies.

Does anyone else have experience with this or know where the cache files are stored?

It seems like they are stored in Documents & Settings/My Username. I turned on "show hidden files & folders" and see nothing...yet each DVD seems to make the folder grow 20+ GB!!

Nevermind, fixed it. Here's what i did:

Open any explorer window and click on Tools -> Folder Options -> View. Scroll down and tick "Show all hidden files..." and uncheck "Hide protected operating system files..."

Went into documents & settings\etc. all the way to application data then to handbrake, where one of the folders held a log file that was 50 GB! I deleted it (while encoding a video) to no ill effect!