[dba-Tech] DVD ripper for Windows 8

Hi Peter et al

I managed to check out DVD Shrink but I couldn't play back the converted files. It seems aimed at making DVD copies which I don't care that much about.
Also, it is dormant:

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Since development of DVD Shrink has been stopped in 2005 it cannot circumvent current copy protections schemes which may manifest in these errors/error messages: 

• Movie playback starts in between or at the end and/or chapters do not playback in order 
• Invalid File Structure 
• Invalid Navigation Structure 
• Out of memory 
• Programming error - Exception occurred 
• Parameter Incorrect 
• Data Redundancy Check Error (CRC Error) 
• The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error 
 
To remove such protections do a complete backup of such media to your HDD with (use Google): 

• DVDFab HD Decrypter (free trial) 
• AnyDVD (free trial) 

and then use Shrink to encode it as usual. 
</quote>

So you have to go to your pocket if you wish to be up to date.

/gustav
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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk>
Sendt: 15. september 2014 10:52
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] DVD ripper for Windows 8

Hi Peter

Yes, it is as if the same engine is skinned in 47 varieties - all with a Start button down, right - and offered by a myriad of web sites. One version is free and useless, and the paid version costs about €/$ 40.00.

However, at least one seems to be genuine and capable, Magic DVD Ripper:

    http://www.magicdvdripper.com/

There is no free version but it will run five times for free. I managed quite easily to rip "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", so it works.
It can rip most copy-protected DVDs. Not really my business, I just wish to have on-disk copies of my movie DVDs for easy playback on units not having a DVD player like Surface Pro.

I haven't tested DVD Shrink:

    http://www.dvdshrink.org/what_en.php

which is free, but seems not to be able to decrypt an encrypted movie DVD.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Peter Brawley
Sendt: 14. september 2014 21:00
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] DVD ripper for Windows 8

On 2014-09-14 11:16 AM, Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi all
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> Can anyone recommend a good DVD ripper for Windows 8 to store rip and store protected DVD movies as high-quality video files optimised for Windows?
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> It doesn't have to be free.

Google for dvdshrink32setup, be careful where you download it---as with much such software there are lots of sociopathic predators piggybacking their toxic junk on it.

PB