DVD to HDD?

[sam]

im in the process of building a new rig for the purpose of an entertainment system.IE store dvd movies and audio cd for personal play back .NOT P2P! i allready have lots of dvd's/cd's that i would like to consolidate on to a HDD

i want to know how to save the dvd movies and cd's to my hdd's and what software i would need to do this sucessfully

THANKS IN ADVANCE

[phenious]

You can copy DVDs to your HDD with DVDShrink. It is free and a search on google will point you to it. You can copy the whole DVD with menus and all or just the movie. I would recomend using compression so you dont kill your hdd. You can compress up to 20% without noticing unless you are anal and stand reeeal close and stare or something... I bet you could get away with 30~40% as well.

-: phenious :-

[Droppyale]

I agree with phenious..

also check out www.dvdrhelp.com

lots of guides...

[muno]

As it's entertainment purposes only, I'd get some image writing software and image the entire dvd/cds. Then you can just mount them to d-tools/alcohol and playback as they originally were.
It's pretty fast too (compared to re-encoding the entire stream).
-M

[phenious]

... to be honest I think it would be faster if you just ripped the VOBs to your HDD with no compression... no re-encoding there... Also... ive never tried that... how would the image software handle the CSS encryption and such? I dont have a clue... Id have to try... anybody else know?

-: phenious :-

[Krum]

Best one I've found is DVDDecryptor. I'ts free, removes the CSS protection and even lets you change the region if you need to. You can write the DVD to your hard drive as a folder of VOB files, or save it in ISO mode to burn it to disk or play from a virtual drive (daemon tools). Simple as heck to use, one click and you've got it in about 10 minutes. Find it here: Http://www.dvddecrypter.com