XP 32 Software for DVD Copying

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I want to backup / copy some of my DVD movies onto a HDD not just to have a copy, but also for ease of use to watch videos without having to flip CD's into a player. For those of you who have done this, have you settled on a reliable and (hopefully) fast way to get the desired results?

The internet search is full of suggestions, but most of the software is probably not XP compatible. I'd also like to avoid putting any previews, ads, or unwanted menu items on the HDD version.
 
DVDFab is what I used on my old XP machine. Looks like the latest version that will run on XP is v9.2.4.

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It's a 30 day trial. I don't know of any freeware DVD rippers/copiers for XP.
DVDFab does it all. Rip or copy protected DVDs to image or DVDR. Support for numerous video/audio formats. Before that I used Slysoft but that was just to copy protected DVDs to DVDR. (Commercial video DVDs had CSS encryption).
 
I installed the trial version of DVDFab but it looks like it adds a watermark unless you purchase the full version.

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The version I used in XP back then was 5.1.0.0.

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The software is very user friendly although it has plenty of advanced options. Ahh the days of renting DVDs from Blockbluster and building up my movie library.;)

Sorry I don't know of any freeware DVD rippers.
 
Thanks Clippy..... I'll check this one out. I already played around with VLC and Wondershare Converter, and by my estimation of what was happening the process for a single DVD to HDD would have taken till next Xmas!
 
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ClippyBeer said:
I installed the trial version of DVDFab but it looks like it adds a watermark unless you purchase the full version.


The software is very user friendly although it has plenty of advanced options. Ahh the days of renting DVDs from Blockbluster and building up my movie library.;)

Sorry I don't know of any freeware DVD rippers.
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I second dvdfab. It's the best. It has good compression techniques. It compresses dual layer to single layer dvd and it doesn't look bad. Plus you can use it to rip the dvd to a portable device like a psp.

Another good options are:

Xilisoft DVD Ripper Ultimate SE

Xilisoft DVD Ripper Ultimate is powerful and easy-to-use DVD ripping software with the ability of ripping DVD to almost all video and audio formats, such as MPEG-4, AVI, DivX, Xvid, RM, FLV, SWF, Mov, 3GP, WMV, WMA, MP3, AAC, AC3, M4A, WAV etc.
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DVD Copy Express - DVD Copier, DVD Clone, Clone DVD Software

Xilisoft DVD Copy Express is fast, easy to use DVD copier. The DVD copy software can clone DVD movie by 1:1, copy DVD-9 to DVD-5 with GREAT quality.
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Xilisoft still works on XP.

In regards to speed. The more cores your cpu have the faster it will be.
 
secpar said:
I used Nero 6.6.0.16, Ultra Edition. Should be findable.
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The OP wants to copy his DVD videos to HDD so he will need something that can decrypt CSS protection. Nero doesn't know what to do with CSS protection but DVDFab removes it so the copies made can then be duplicated with Nero or any other DVD software. All commercial video DVDs that you bought/rented came with CSS encryption as well as region coding.

I haven't burned any optical media in a decade, USB flash drives made them obsolete. My Blu-ray player is full of dust as I watch videos from USB thumb drive on my HTPC.

tekkaman said:
I second dvdfab. It's the best. It has good compression techniques. It compresses dual layer to single layer dvd and it doesn't look bad. Plus you can use it to rip the dvd to a portable device like a psp.

Xilisoft still works on XP.

In regards to speed. The more cores your cpu have the faster it will be.
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I've used Xilisoft's Video Converter Ultimate so am familiar. And yes, the more cores your PC has the faster the conversion process will be.
 
I've honestly never had trouble ripping videos with VLC. I haven't had the need to do it a lot though.

Got some DVDs from someone, couldn't watch them at the time so I dumped them as an ISO to my hard drive. Later down the line, watched them, then ripped from the ISO loaded into Daemon tools.
 
Thanks for the extra input folks.... I got a copy of DvdFab and it worked alright with an older DVD in my stash. I only tested it with the one disc so far. First it produced an MP4 file of the movie in about 31 minutes as estimated. Then I set it to produce the movie again in AVI format and it spit out 3 files, again in about half an hour. (*.avi, *.sub, & *.idx)

Eventually I want the digital files on a portable HDD to be plugged into my (not so) Smart TV, so one concern I have is keeping the file size down. However, this TV I have is a bit finicky, as it tells me "Format Not Supported" on some videos but not others, even when they are of the same file extension. As I'm slowly learning, it seems that there are several different encoding methods possible in each format?

Something else I've never found help with is the buffer limit on my TV. Actual file size does not seem to matter, but strangely length of video does. It will not play any video so far past 2 hours and 12 minutes. I contacted HiSense about this, but they are of no help. It's kinda strange I think that if it loads a 2 hour movie that's 2Gb in size, it will play the entire movie, but if I load a 2 1/2 hour long movie and the file size is only 400 Mb, it'll stop short at around the 132 minute mark.

So from here I'm trying to figure out which format to convert my DVD's to that will be light weight on size, acceptable on quality, and still of a format that my Stupid TV will play.

I also have an HP Notebook connected to the TV so I can play longer movies, and of any file format using the VLC program on that machine, but for some reason, I'm getting unexpectedly high KwH usage on my meter when I leave that running for extended periods.... which doesn't make much sense to me. The stat's on laptops says they shouldn't use much power at all.
 
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