How to rip a dvd using windows? Can someone help me?

I have a dvd set of OL Zenidou OL銭道 starring the beautiful Kikukawa Rei
菊川怜 who you might have noticed in the Godzilla Final Wars movie. This was her first tv series. I would like to rip it and then make a torrent for people but I have no idea how to do this. Can anyone recommend a good site with some free software to rip it off the dvd?

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:21 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Use DVDShrink, it's freeware

http://www.dvdshrink.org

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Sorry, I do my ripping using Linux.

That said, if you find you cannot get the hang of it yourself (cannot retain quality at a reasonable size) you can PM me and I will do the rip for you and help seed the upload. Then we just have to hope somebody wants to sub it ;^)

Ah, you might want to try this, this is a Windows frontend for the Windows version of the encoding software I use:

http://mewig.sourceforge.net/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=1

Here is how I do it:

http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/wiki?Ripping_DVD_To_Avi

Though that example is not *exactly* right for this particualr purpose, but it's pretty close.

You can try that with the mencoder version for Windows and see what you get. See here for mplayer/mencoder for Windows:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html

DVDShrink is for copying, not ripping, isn't it?

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:25 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

DVDShrink is the first step, to rip the protection to your HDD and then use Vidomi itself. Vidomi is freeware and very user friendly for beginners:

http://www.vidomi.com/

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Easiest way to rip a dvd to avi files if you're new would probably be to use DVD Decrypter to rip the dvd and AutoGK to encode it. Go to the Guides section in Doom9 for more details. http://www.doom9.org/

I'd recomment using Subrip to pull the subs off of the dvd if you have any.

AutoGK: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64266

DVD Decrypter: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DVD_Decrypter.htm

subrip: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/subrip.html

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

There's no Windows tools that rip directly from DVD? It's much more convenient to be able to just specify the title ;^)

BTW, if it has subs, even if they are not english, go ahead and rip them because then you get the timing for free.

(@toad - go back to SARS and remove your post there!)

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Well, you could get freaky and try installing DVD43 on the system to handle removing any copy protection on the fly and use AutoGK by itsself, but I've always had better results ripping to the HD first. Then again, I've seen very few dvd's that couldn't use a little tweaking to maintain quality while compressing, especially if you go down to 350 megs or so. Less video noise=much better compression. But I think that's a topic beyond the scope of this one.

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

mencoder lets you do everything in a single step, as in my example. Though to rip the vobsubs does require an extra pass through mplayer, albeit a very, very fast step. I am only bringing this up because the rips I have done using mencoder seem to be much better than any that I have seen (for the size) available as raws anywhere (okay, I admit I am exaggerating a bit, I have seen plently of really sweet raws... but I have seen some surprisingly peak-clipped ones as well). I suspect because the denoising options in mencoder are better. But yes, it is sort of a baremetal tool, and a complete disaster for a newb.

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:04 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

not addressing technical issues--but this drama raws were uploaded here--did a search but the torrents are gone and only one torrent comment thread to confirm--but i grabbed them all and so must have others. no one ever subbed it though--so if this ever gets going, hopefully someone will--but then the point maybe that this series has been posted before.

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

@SHD - do you think your raws are from dvd sources?

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

@pokute: I have suse linux on my laptop to play with and am looking at moving over to the ubuntu distro for my server some time in the near future (debian, I believe). Know any good tutorials for Linux idiots for video-related stuff?

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

@aNToK - AutoGK doesn't appear to use lavc, it must be excruciatingly slow, no?

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

It takes an hour analyzing the source, though I could swear that it used to be a lot faster. As far as encoding itsself, each pass is about 20-30% faster than realtime, so I can't complain. As a simple solution if you don't want to play around and just let the thing run, it works pretty well. These days I usually use vdubmod for encoding, as I usually toss in a few avisynth filters anyway.

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Also see: http://www.transcoding.org