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Title: Playing DVDs
Post by: porthacking on January 28, 2013, 03:27:10 am

Hi All,

I have just ripped my entire CD collection.
I would like to rip all of my DVDs so I can access everything through MC. I think it is a great program.
I want all of the DVDs to play exactly as though I had put them in a DVD player. I have a family member who is hearing impaired, so I need access to all of the subtitles etc. I have another who likes all of the extra features.

What is the best way to do this?
I don't want to add any lossy compression and I don't really care about the size of the files.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Title: Re: Playing DVDs
Post by: Mr ChriZ on January 28, 2013, 03:53:50 am

MC has a certain amount of ripping capability for DVD's built in.
If MC can't rip them then I tend to use dvd fab hd decrypter - which is free.
I use both of them to basically just grab an exact copy of the content including DVD Menu's, adverts, etc as VOB files.
I don't use compression.  It's fairly quick taking in the region of 15-20 minutes to rip a disk on my 7 year old machine.

MC imports them and neatly shows each movie as one file.  I then use Media Centers tools to grab posters for each movie.

It does take a fair amount of space usually around 5-7gb but space continues to get cheaper!
I've got around 300 discs stored this way.

Title: Re: Playing DVDs
Post by: porthacking on February 09, 2013, 07:58:58 pm

Hi,

Thanks for your reply, this is really helpful!!

So to clarify, use MC or DVD Fab HD decrypter to rip. This leaves everything intact as a single file and MC can grad posters
from the net somewhere?
MC or DVD Fab leave it as a .vob? Is there any settings I need to be aware of?

Thanks again for your help.

Scott