I've been using smartripper for about 4 years now. It's a fantastic program, i like the fact it rips the movie into 1 easy vob in the original master's quality. But recently i've been looking for a program that rips the whole dvd, including menu's, special features etc...... Anyone got a good one they use? If so what's your method for burning after aswell? Thanks in advance.
pryme_H Thanks very much! I've just used this now i can't believe how quick it's ripping! Maybe even faster than smartripper. So i've been on this site for about 6 hours & already 2 of my many questions have been answered. Thanks again!
Me again, now i have the DVD folder with VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS inside, the audio_ts is empty?!?!? Is that suppose to be? Now how do i burn this onto another blank dvd? Using smartripper i made 1 vob file, then i justed stuck that in nero 8 & wait for a couple of mins then burn it.
Sorry my bad, i didn't realise you still use dvdfab to burn it as well, i can't believe all these years i've been backing them up using smartripper & nero losing all the menu's & extras, I'm an ediot. LOL. I'll try this in acouple of days, i don't have any blank dvd's & off i go to ebay......... Thanks again pryme_H.
The audio folder is always empty, I've never found one that had data on it. When I get the 2 folders after ripping with dvdfab, I process those folders through dvdshrink 3.2. And I always backup(save as) to ISO. The ISO can be burned with nero or imgburn etc. I just prefer dvdshrink3.2 editing engine to finalize the finished dvd.
Thanks jony218, i might do that, i must admit using dvdfab for ripping & burning seems a lot easier. & thanks for the input on the AUDIO_TS folder, i was worried i was doing something wrong.
Hi Will DVDFab convert the dual layer dvd's onto a single?, if what is there anything that will?, Thanks
No it doesn't. What you can do, however, is use DVD Shrink for this purpose. It is encouraged to rip just the main movie to minimize/eliminate compression when files are transposed to DVD Shrink.
If you use DVDFab Platinum, you just rip the dvd in DVD-5 settings, you can't miss it, it's quite clear on the screen, it will take the quality down accordingly to fit on DVD-5 to a tee. Personally i can't even notice the quality difference, trust me i've burned about 18 DVD's this week, using this method, you don't lose a thing, menu's, extras, all episodes of a series DVD, Everything. DVDFab Platinum what a great program, kicks the s**t out of smartripper, rips quicker aswell, i suppose it depends on dvdr-drive & rest of pc but when i do a rip & burn it takes under 15 minutes in total to rip & then burn to another disc!
