Here you select the source DVD with a click on the arrow at the end of the Source DVD form and the location for the target ISO image. Most users can leave the remaining settings activated. They remove the DVD region code, FBI warnings and anti-piracy ads that cannot be skipped or fast-forwarded, CSS encryption and checks for Disney’s fake protection.

A click on Run initiates the process, a progress bar indicates the conversion progress. The conversion speed depends largely on the read speed of the DVD drive and a few additional factors like the computer utilization during the process.

The program stores the DVD into the selected target directory. Users can mount the ISO image directly to view it in a DVD-capable media player on the computer, or burn it again to disc to create a backup copy of the original DVD movie.

The second screen, accessible with a click on the ISO to DVD tab basically burns a movie DVD to a blank DVD disc.

BDlot DVD ISO Master is a handy program if you want to rip DVD movies to the ISO format. It is a DVD cloning software that creates 1:1 copies of DVD movies sans the restrictions and annoyances. Options to convert the DVD or save its Video_TS folder would have been handy, as would have been options to support the same operations for Blu-Ray movies. Lastly, an option to create a DVD copy and burn that copy back to disc would be handy as well.

We have covered alternatives in the past including DVDFab HD Encrypter which converts movies into Video_TS or Blu-Ray folders or Auto Gordian Knot which converts DVDs into Avi movies to save space.

Interested users can download BDlot DVD ISO Master from the developer website. Please note that you need to click on the Download link next to the program’s listing on the second page of the download process.

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

All you need to do is to put the DVD movie into the DVD drive of the computer and click on Load DVD in the program interface. It will load the DVD contents with the option to preview them. The program has pull down menus for selecting one of the available audio tracks and subtitles that will be included in the rip.

The only other customization option is to select the target size for the output file and one out of three encoding profiles (avi, video CD and super video CD).

A click on convert will start the ripping process and save the file to the computer’s hard drive. The only nuisance of the program was that it did automatically open a website with another DVD ripping tool by the same author as advertisement. A viable alternative without advertisement is the one-click dvd ripping tool Bitripper.