![]() ![]() However, if you’re to rip any DVD that is protected and homemade DVDs, this can only be done through the WinX DVD ripper. ![]() Generally to say, if you’re looking to rip any general DVD, which isn’t copy protected – the handbrake DVD ripper is the best option out there. Handbrake vs WinX DVD Ripper – how are they different from one another? We in this article compare two of the most used free DVD rippers out there – handbrake vs WinX DVD Ripper and try to give you a clear picture as to what are the strengths and shortcomings of the two respectively. As it is, windows does not come preinstalled with any such software and therefore the need to be aware of the best DVD rippers out there arises. The process in itself is not extremely complicated, as long as you’ve the right software to do this. ![]() Originally Posted by Kelson /t/1432734/best-format-for-ripping#post_22474060DVD rippers are an extremely useful way to digitize DVD copies into digital file for playback everywhere. These days, the only things I compress are HDTV recordings (MPEG-2 -> H.264 2-pass 30% reduction) that I intend to keep permanently and eventually author to BD-R. Depending on your personal standards you may come to the conclusion, as I did, that the time and effort required to compress a DVD while retaining an acceptable quality level is not worth the amount of hard disk space saved it's usually cheaper all-around to buy a second HDD. Use what you read here as a guide to a starting point then do your own experiments. Your experience may be quite different with your equipment. I've never been happy with a single-pass H.264 encoder at 30% compression - I see color shifts in skin tones that make faces appear washed out. I have found that using a good 2-pass H.264 encoder I can take an MPEG-2 encoded title and compress it down to 70% of original size and not tell the difference from the original on my display. Compared to MPEG-2, H.264 PQ degrades more gradually as you reduce the bitrate the picture gets progressively softer for a longer slide before gross artifacts appear. You can't take a 5GB title and compress it to 1GB with H.264 and have it look no different from the original. H.264/AVC may be a more efficient codec than the DVD native MPEG-2, but it is not a miracle worker some people believe it is. Only you can decide how bad is still acceptable. I have also found that if I compressed a title more than 10% (90% of original size MPEG-2 2-pass) I can start to notice a difference on my display (50" plasma). I have found that quality 2-pass encoders always seem to yield a better picture than 1-pass, but then they take a lot more time. As you bit-starve the title it will get a little softer then grainy and finally artifacts will appear such as macro-blocking. At first, for modest MPEG-2 re-compression, you may not notice it on your equipment unless you were to play the original side-by-side with the compressed title. ![]() Consider this, when you compress you will lose quality. You will have to do some re-codings and play the titles. Only you can make the determination as to what looks good to you on your equipment and in your viewing environment. I would also echo what has7738 said, if you do compress all those movies into h264 buy another HDD as a backup. There are faster ways to compress into h264 but at the expensive of quality like Intel's quicksync technology or some of the crappy GPU encoders, if your after speed at the expense of all else then Cyberlinks mediaespresso is the one to use, it supports those technologies & even if you don't have them the software encoder is still tuned for speed. Anything slower will add time onto the conversion. Most of your movies will be compressed down at this setting to around 1GB so 900 DVD's should be no problem for 3TB (2700GB) but it will take a long time to convert all of those simply due to the large number you have, a fast Intel quad core PC can do a DVD conversion in Handbrake in about 1-2 hours. If you want compression plus quality use Handbrake to convert into h264/mkv or h264/mp4 (use the high profile preset and on the video tab drag the slider to RF21). Most DVD's range between 3-5GB in this after extraction so you would likely fill the 3TB with around 700 movies as a rough estimate. If you want maximum quality and just the main movie use MakeMKV, no compression just extraction of the movie to a single container.
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