Best way to rip dvd videos

My hard drive crashed and I lost some of the edited avi files. I still have the original tapes and some of the raw captures on dvd data discs. But in order to reedit them, I need to rip some of my dvds since those have the videos in their final edited form. I'm not looking to edit the ripped video much, just mainly as a guide to match things up. And since they're from my dvd's, I don't have to worry about copy protection but I might want to rip copy protected video at some point later on.

What program (free if possible) would you reccomend? I've heard about something in a videohelp guide called I think dvd decryptor. Is that a good choice?

Yes, get DVD Decrypter. There are some newer protection schemes that it can't handle, but it's still an essential piece of software IMO.

i'm having issues with DVD decryptor and the SE discs, it just doesn't like them,

(i have the latest version i think)....and it starts ripping, but then dies out,

and never finishes...i end up using an older program called smartRipper which

works fine..

now after checking several of my rips.................all the star wars crawls are

completely messed up......they have several different languages interspersed,

and the sounds all messed up....everything before and after the crawl is

fine though.....................weird................ is there a way to fix that?

later

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Smartripper doesn't like some multi angle DVD's. DVD Decrypter works fine for the SE's. I have used it to rip mine. If you want to do a full rip then use DVD Decrypter and the multi angle will be fine and the crawl won't be messed up. But if you want the movie for editing purposes then rip the full DVD with DVD Decrypter then import the ripped DVD into DVDShrink, chose "re-author", select the main title and the angle you want, set the compression to "no compression" then chose the language & subtitles you want to keep and export the DVD. This will give you the main movie only with only the language crawl you want

thanks adywan,

i will try it out.................i haven't had to many dvd's with this issue before,

so that's what threw off the ripping...

later

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