Comments on: Rip DVD’s to AVI Files

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:35:23 +0000

dvd43 is the best software to decode a dvd and its free. It just doesnt work with 64bit vista

By: bitRipper is a Dead Simple Solution for DVD Ripping - Softsaurus.org

bitRipper is a Dead Simple Solution for DVD Ripping - Softsaurus.org — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:39:18 +0000

[...] There’s little else to say, except that it seems to work—I’m currently backing up a DVD from the default settings, and it claims it will finish at 8:30 a.m. (EST) or so, having started at 7:50 a.m. Speed demons can debate whether that’s my drive or a standard run time, but everyone else can appreciate bitRipper’s no-nonsense utility. It’s free to download for Windows systems only. bitRipper [via CyberNet] [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:32:54 +0000

The movie I tried it on is a little bit older, and so it didn’t have any troubles with ripping it. As Pierre pointed out this may not be able to decode the latest security mechanisms though.

By: MHealy

MHealy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:58:14 +0000

I tried BitRipper but found that a program called Handbrake which is free open-source available from handbrake.fr performed much better, cutting a lot of time off my ripping and putting out excellent rips.

I even have a post on it here: [hack7mc.com]

By: Pierre

Pierre — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:07:29 +0000

bitRipper is abandonware, formerly commercial software that is obsolete and now given out for free. Thus that would explain why it can’t decode DVDs with newer encryption.

By: Michael Dobrofsky

Michael Dobrofsky — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:11:50 +0000

Tom wrote:

I tried testing bitRipper on a few different discs, but kept getting the error “Can’t get access to the DVD data. Disc is not authorized.” Anyone else experience this?

Haven't tried it yet, but does this program decode DVD encryption? If not, there's your answer. You'd need to get AnyDVD or similar to decode first, then you're free to do whatever you want to the DVD.

By: horao

horao — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:39:44 +0000

I am testing on an older DVD and it seems to be working. It’s guestimating that it will take 4.5 hours to convert a 1.5 hour movie. Yikes. My old athlon 2600+ is just chugging along … lol.

I had tried a conversion on a newer DVD and it would hang for 5 to 10 minutes, running the CPU at 100%, then quit with a message that there wasn’t a DVD loaded.

Interesting note: the version I downloaded doesn’t have the “Register” button shown above.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:42:46 +0000

I tried testing bitRipper on a few different discs, but kept getting the error “Can’t get access to the DVD data. Disc is not authorized.” Anyone else experience this?