Best Way to copy DVDs to Laptop/iPad

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I had used Handbrake in the past, but is there any better alternatives? I remember once it messed up the chapters on The Gruffalo! Seen
Aimersoft DVD Ripper for $40, any feedback on that or similar? Needs to work on Mac.
 
Cheers, don't want to start using apps, just want to copy film to MacBook and then drag to iTunes. May we'll give handbrake another go, just wanted to see if anything better.
 
No. It's not in apple's interest to make it easy. Usr handbrake....
 
How long does a typical DVD take? Tried one and it seems to hang on 0.1% encoding?
 
I've just bought winxdvd DVD Ripper Platinum (from www.winxdvd.com), currently on offer for £29 (at $ to £ conversion). I've tried numerous bits of software as I just want my DVD collection on my NAS, to watch on the big TV in the lounge via Apple TV, and via our smart TV in our bedroom that talks directly to the NAS.

I used Aimersoft, then I bought iSoft DVD ripper, and had constant problems with both. The never recorded the sound tracks properly, no amount of fiddling could save the 5.1 sound track. Both programmes were very slow to rip (pretty much real time), the file sizes produced were unfathomably random (main title only for feature film would end up between 1.5-9GB for a comparable length film), and both programmes were crashy.

Fast forward a year, and I've bought the winxdvd programme. It's very easy to use, it's producing files consistently 1.5-2GB, the 5.1 sound track is perfect and so is the picture quality. It has loads of presets built in to optimise it for the viewing media (i.e. you don't necessarily need the same thing for an ipad as you do for an HD TV, etc). It's taking around 45 minutes to rip a 2 hour film, at high quality settings, on a fairly low spec dual core Windows 7 laptop.

I will add I did loads of reading on the free software like Handbrake, but ultimately I'm not at all interested in he workings of computer programmes and other geekery, and found the process you had to go through to emulate the software I've bought tedious, convoluted and unreliable. For the sake of £29, I'm very pleased.
 
Because Handbrake doesn't rip copy protected DVD's. Various websites say it can with the addition of adding dll media player files, etc, etc, or using another piece of software like DVDDecrypter first, I've tried it, can't make it work and frankly I can't be arsed. The package I've bought works beautifully, rips anything and comes with lifetime updates as media protection progresses. It's near enough the one click solution I wanted, and at £30 its cheap enough.
 
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DVDFab gets my vote
 
Shine On said:
Because Handbrake doesn't rip copy protected DVD's. Various websites say it can with the addition of adding dll media player files, etc, etc, or using another piece of software like DVDDecrypter first, I've tried it, can't make it work and frankly I can't be arsed. The package I've bought works beautifully, rips anything and comes with lifetime updates as media protection progresses. It's near enough the one click solution I wanted, and at £30 its cheap enough.
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I don't recall ever having that problem, unless they changed something recently.

That said I haven't used handbrake for a while as I use Mkv and the app I mentioned earlier.
 
DVD Decryptor to rip DVD

Handbrake to encode
 
neil_g said:
I don't recall ever having that problem, unless they changed something recently.

That said I haven't used handbrake for a while as I use Mkv and the app I mentioned earlier.
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On it's own handbrake can no longer rip copy protected DVDs. It will however if you install VLC as handbrake can then use ibdvdcss package that comes with VLC
At least that's how it was a year and a half ago when I last ripped a DVD

Actually here's some more current info: http://www.macworld.com/article/1157590/how_to_rip_dvd_handbrake.html
 
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