DVD Copying For the Rest of Us
This post was published 1 year 2 months 15 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Of course it is no secret I’m a Mac user. My ripper of choice: Handbrake but sometimes you want to copy the WHOLE DVD. The solution is simple for the Mac, DriveIn by Telestream. But, whole DVD copying for the PC has been a mystery for me. Real Networks hopes to solve that problem.
eople have been avidly feeding music CDs into their computers for years, ripping digital copies of albums and transferring the files to their other computers and mobile devices.
This has not happened nearly as much with DVDs, for both practical and legal reasons. But that may soon change.
On Monday, RealNetworks, the digital media company in Seattle, will introduce RealDVD, a $30 software program for Windows computers that allows users to easily make a digital copy of an entire DVD — down to the extras and artwork from the box.
Robert Glaser, chief executive of RealNetworks, called it “a compelling and very responsible product that gives consumers a way to do something they have always wanted to do,” like make backup copies of favorite discs and take movies with them on their laptops when they travel.via]
Of course the MPAA will come swinging but having a deep pocketed company such as Real Networks fighting for fair use in a probable court battle could yield some interesting results.
If it is easy one click back-up, it might have a chance.
Though the big IF is can if overcome the history of realnetworks bloat ware and intrusive program behavior?
dvd copy –> imgburn
The copy you end up with has DRM up the wazoo.
Word to the wise….
MacTheRipper is a great, free, whole DVD, ripper for OSX. No need to pay. In combination with HandBrake I have never needed a format or quality I couldn’t achieve.
@David
Seriously, who didn’t see THAT coming?
i have been a mac user for … about 6 years now, handbreak is my mac choice for mac, but i dont like how long it takes so when it comes to copying dvds i use my pc.
its so much easyer, i use DVDfab with DVDshrink, DVDfab is updated all the time when there is a problem cracking the dvds protection, usually a day or two after a problem is found it is updated. with DVDfab to rip it and DVDshrink to compress so it fits on a normal blank dvd. never been a problem. and there both free.
+1 for mactheripper.
+2 for mac the ripper, be sure to find version 3.0 R14m. It’s the newest version.
For Windows, nothing beats DVDFabPlatinum. The same programmer writes the most common free DVD ripping tool, but DVDFabPlatinum lets you copy the DVD to formats like avi or customized for ipod, and it allows a fine degree of control over removing FBI warnings, negating the menu restrictions that force you to watch previews, and removing region codes. It is worth the 40 USD or so to support the programmer.