What is the highest quality DVD ripper?

[Yggdrasil]

I prefer DVD Decrypter myself, since I not only store the VOB files, but the entire DVD themselves at times on my hard drives. It's more flexible for ME than Smart Ripper or that cladDVD thing was. Really cool to rip a DVD straight from your hard drive to your hard drive.

My name is Yggdrasil, and I am an anime storage system. 8)

[koronoru]

[The ripping method doesn't determine the quality.

Why does everyone seem to think it does?

Yeah, software's important, but to get maximum quality from your DVD rips, you have to colour around the outside edge of the disc with a purple magic marker. It has to be purple - you may have heard "green", but that's for CDs, and DVDs use a different wavelength of laser. The ink absorbs reflected laser light and reduces bitwise jitter in the output signal, so the flux capacitor doesn't have to work as hard and you get better quantizer coefficients.

[trythil]

[The ripping method doesn't determine the quality.

Why does everyone seem to think it does?

Yeah, software's important, but to get maximum quality from your DVD rips, you have to colour around the outside edge of the disc with a purple magic marker. It has to be purple - you may have heard "green", but that's for CDs, and DVDs use a different wavelength of laser. The ink absorbs reflected laser light and reduces bitwise jitter in the output signal, so the flux capacitor doesn't have to work as hard and you get better quantizer coefficients.

It should also be noted that DVD ripping works best when you divide the DVD into small chunks with (say) an x-acto knife and let the drive work on it one piece at a time, since the laser can analyze smaller pieces with a greater degree of precision. This, in fact, is where the term "ripping" came from; it's just that most people became complacent and lazy after they decided to put up with substandard results from "ripping" whole discs.

If you think I'm serious, you're a freaking idiot, and need to learn about sarcasm. This disclaimer shouldn't be necessary, but some people are dumb / humorless enough to not see this as humorous.

[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

[The ripping method doesn't determine the quality.

Why does everyone seem to think it does?

Yeah, software's important, but to get maximum quality from your DVD rips, you have to colour around the outside edge of the disc with a purple magic marker. It has to be purple - you may have heard "green", but that's for CDs, and DVDs use a different wavelength of laser. The ink absorbs reflected laser light and reduces bitwise jitter in the output signal, so the flux capacitor doesn't have to work as hard and you get better quantizer coefficients.

It should also be noted that DVD ripping works best when you divide the DVD into small chunks with (say) an x-acto knife and let the drive work on it one piece at a time, since the laser can analyze smaller pieces with a greater degree of precision. This, in fact, is where the term "ripping" came from; it's just that most people became complacent and lazy after they decided to put up with substandard results from "ripping" whole discs.

If you think I'm serious, you're a freaking idiot, and need to learn about sarcasm. This disclaimer shouldn't be necessary, but some people are dumb / humorless enough to not see this as humorous.

Ahh...so THATS what I need to do to get good results and become a 1337 video editor?? Ok then.

*retrieves stanley knife from cupboard and begins "ripping" his DVDs and CDs*

Serioualy though, who are you taking the piss out of? Not me I hope.... If so I'd at least like to know why. And to all the people who took this and the preceeding posts seriously...sucks to be you@@!!!!

[koronoru]

[Serioualy though, who are you taking the piss out of? Not me I hope.... If so I'd at least like to know why. And to all the people who took this and the preceeding posts seriously...sucks to be you@@!!!!

The same people you were complaining about - those who think different software will produce different quality of output. DVD ripping is supposed to be a lossless process; if the ripping software is correct at all, then it should produce the same quality of output as any other ripping software. There are differences between rippers, but the differences are in how easy they are to use, or what features they support, not the quality of the output.

In fairness: some people incorrectly say "rip" when they mean "rip and re-encode"; in that case, you'll see differences depending on how you do the re-encode step.

[asrrin29]

wow, thanks for all the eplies, but I took your advice and usd the guides. What I meant in my original pst was actuall rippers that do everything for you, from compressing to putting it into avi format. boy have my eyes been shut! now I am using smartripper and anisynth to edit and it is working wonders! I never ealized you could do that kind of thing.

[kearlywi]

ss5, Thats gotta be the one of the best avatars I've ever seen, ROFL!

Arnold: AUGH!