DVD ripper recommendations?

I really need some recommendations on what DVD ripping software I should be using. I’m working on project right now (a project that’s been in the works for longer than I’d like to admit) and the DVD ripping software I’ve been using isn’t cutting it. I’ve used MakeMKV at first, which seems to rip blu-rays near perfectly, but presents video stuttering issues when ripping DVDs, so it’s just didn’t work out. After MakeMKV fell through, I started using Handbrake’s disk ripper only to find that it created jagged edges on the lines and gives the audio a harsh ‘glassy’ quality with ‘S’ sounds, even when I set the audio to a reasonably high bitrate.

I’m about a year into the project’s current incarnation, edited together about 22 hours worth of content, but I’m willing to jettison all that work (again…) if I can make it better from a video/audio quality standpoint. Obviously, I want the output files to be near perfect recreations of what’s on the disk. Also obviously, I would like to spend the least amount to get this software if possible. It should also probably go without saying that the ripper should bypass copy-protection. The disks I am ripping are very much protected, so that feature is a must.

If anyone can help, I’d be very grateful.

Oh wow, I forgot all about DVD Decrypter. It’s no longer being supported, so that’s probably why I couldn’t find it in searches earlier. But it seems to be working great, so awesome! Thanks for reminding me that this exists. Now, I just have 24 more disks to rip (for the 3rd time), then replace my old rips with the new ones in my projects and hopefully I should be golden!

This project has been an enormous pain. I spent basically all of 2022 squashing technical issue after technical issue. I was hoping to be at least halfway done by now, but now this may help me to get back to actually editing. So again, thank you very much!

Oh, just a few trims to that third act showdown. I find it important to the catharsis of Tinky-Winky’s character at this point.

lol, nah. What I’m making is a manga accurate cut of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, a project that’s been a long time coming. I don’t know if it’s weird to care this much about the visual and audio fidelity of such an old anime like this, but I put so much time and effort into it, I want it to be as perfect as possible by the end of it all.

As is, more or less. My editor seems to work well with the VOBs as they are. Although, I will likely have to alter the first batch of rips slightly just so the files match up with the edits I’ve already made on the first 11 volumes of the project, which will be accomplished through the editor itself. But yeah, the rips I’m making through Mode>IFO seem to work adequately well for the project.

Apologies if I misunderstand some of this technical stuff, I’m not super well-versed.

Now I shall convey how little I understand.

I felt falsely secure earlier with the first portion of the VOB files seeming to work perfectly in my editor, only to find the other portions of the VOB not working the same way. I know VOB files are not your average user-friendly files and I guess I don’t really know the first thing about using them correctly. Loading them into the editor nor attempting to use Handbrake to convert to a different format is yielding no results. Any recommendations on how I should proceed?

Hey, big shout-out here to WXM for all the help he’s been willing to lend me. You put me back on track for my project in a big way, so thank you very much!!

I’ve been using AnyDVD HD. Ripped as folders to my computer and not ISO. I’d rather use IMGBurn to make the ISO again, and burn to disc. THEN that ISO I mount to computer, Windows 10 has built-in ISO mounter, and then use HandBrake sometimes, but not all the time.
I haven’t used DVD Decrypter in ages.

Thanks for the comment. I’ll keep that one in mind in the future.