A DVD ripper can come in handy in quite a few situations. One that immediately springs to mind is to enable the transfer of a DVD video to another device that is not supporting playback from DVDs. Another reason might be to put a lot of movies on a media PC or gaming system to be able to watch them without having to put DVDs in and out of the drives. Then there are situations where it does not make sense to use DVDs. This can be on a holiday trip with kids or a flight to Australia. The risk that the DVDs get damaged or lost can be avoided by ripping them to a computer or other device.
DVD rippers come in many forms and sizes. Three aspects are more important than others when evaluation DVD rippers.
- The DVD ripper should be able to handle copy-protected DVDs
- The DVD ripper should offer popular output formats and settings
- The DVD ripper should be free
There are obviously other criteria that should be analyzed like the ease of use or the impact on the computer system. WinX DVD Ripper is a free DVD ripper that meets most of these criteria. It can rip most (if not all) DVDs as it supports ripping copy-protected DVDs (like CSS protection or Sony ArccOS) out of the box. It supports all region codes and offers to rip the DVD movies into various popular formats including avi, mp4, flv or mpeg.
It actually takes only a few clicks to rip a DVD with WinX DVD Ripper. All it actually takes is to click on the DVD Disc button to pick a DVD Movie from one of the computer’s DVD drives. The DVD ripper will automatically display all tracks of the DVD in its interface with the first track being automatically selected for the ripping process. A click on Start would initiate the process.
The user can make changes to the configuration. It is for example possible to switch the output format, resolution, audio settings and quality or output folder. Everything can be managed from the same window which makes the application feel less complicated to the user.
The DVD ripping process takes time, it can generally be said that it takes between 0.5 to 1 second to rip one second of the DVD movie to the computer system. This figures can vary depending on the speed of the computer system.
WinX DVD Ripper can be downloaded from the developer’s website. It supports most Microsoft operating systems including Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
via DotTech
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I also (really) like, from the same company, the also free, program WinX Video Converter 4.1 which let you convert AVI, WMV, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPEG and much more formats. Really give it a ferry good look over is my hopefully more than humble enough advice to you.
I looked at this product on their website but am concerned about the quality of a ripped DVD based on this statement below where they say that image quality would be better with their paid offering.
Has anyone tried the free product yet? How is the quality of the ripped DVD?
1. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum
WinX DVD Ripper Platinum, advanced version of WinX DVD Ripper, could rip and convert diverse DVDs to nearly all popular video formats, such as AVI/MP4/MPEG/ iPod/ iPhone/ Mobile 3GP/PSP/ PDA/ Zune. With definition encoding engine inside, WinX DVD Ripper Platinum offers better image quality.
(From bottom of page at:
http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-ripper/ )
Jojo I have uploaded two screenshots of a avi that I have ripped with the tool with the default settings.
http://www.ghacks.net/dump/dvdrip1.jpg
http://www.ghacks.net/dump/dvdrip2.jpg
Martin – But I have no frame of reference to compare your uploads to the original.
In your opinion, are they degraded from the original?
Jojo you are right. Here is a screenshot from the DVD and the rip. The rip’s quality is not as crisp as the original but it is possible to increase the quality of the rip by raising the Kbps in video quality and checking the use high quality engine checkbox.
http://www.ghacks.net/dump/1920_rip.jpg
http://www.ghacks.net/dump/1920_dvd.jpg
OK. Thanks…
Thanks for sharing this great software with us.
Just now I download this free DVD ripping software for a try. Just as you said, it convert my DVDs without any quality loss. Thanks Martin.