Racist DVD ripping? Or am I just too lazy to make up a witty title?

[jessybxx]

Yesterday, Yama called me a racist.
And I completely agreed.
Why? Well, we were talking about dubs and original versions.
And when it comes to those, it almost makes me happy to be called that.
Totally.
That's also why I will certainly not be joining mum and her sister to watch "Borat" next week. Because it will be the dubbed version.
And since ti looks like there's no way to watch the original or subbed version, waiting half a year to get the DVD seems to be the only option *theatrical sigh*

Something else:
Does anyone have some experience with ripping full movies from DVDs?
What program(s) is/are good? How long does it take?, etc.
Background: My V DVD is not running evenly and might get destroved at some point, damaging the drive as well.
I noticed it when my laptop was vibrating awfully much while playing it. I even compared it to one of the House ones to make sure. Call it geeky thoroughness if you wish.
Anyhow.
So I, in order to save my precious favourite film, I have to rip it.
There. The not quite self-proclaimed Queen Of Geeks is once in a lifetime asking for help.
Scary, huh?
However, if there's no answer, I shall research and find out about the stuff myself.
But I thought I might try the lazy way first ^_~

Comments

[rdyfrde.livejournal.com]

I use Apollo DVD copy:

http://www.xtodvd.com/

It lets me a make copies of anything including copy-write protected DVDs. It also allows you to rip copies to your computer. Though you will need a player that plays VOB files since that's what it rips as. The copying usually only takes between 10-15 minutes depending on the speed of your DVD drive.

[foxhare.livejournal.com]

I use a huge suite of different software to get the best results for me, but as I am a downloader mostly (being in Japan and all, not having a lot of access to English DVDs), the above suggestion would probably be better. If you don't have a player (other than your PC)that can read VOB files, though, i suggest you use "SmartRipper" to rip the vob files, TMPG to convert them to MPGs, VirtualDub to convert those MPGs to DivX or xVid or whatever, then any DVD creator to make your own menu-driven DVD. (of course, if you're just copying dvds straight over, I'm sure there are better options).

Good luck!

[jessybxx.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[jessybxx.livejournal.com]

So it basically does the same things as my good old DVD Decrypter.
Well, I guess ripping to VOB files is good enough.
Thanks anyway :)

[mirmingi.livejournal.com]

I rip the movies with DVD Decrypter, and burn it with Shrink, or with Nero, or with InstantCopy..
works perfectly for me... but I don't have this big of a screen, so can't say if the quality is worse or not...

as long as it works it's fine for me

[jessybxx.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK. Might try one of those.
*ROFLS at the name Shrink* No, my DVD writer does NOT have psychological problems XDDD