how do i rip dvd's to my computer?

hi,

please can someone tell me how i put some of my dvd's onto my computer? thank you in advance

Like movie DVD's, if so, thats illegal and we cant talk about it here.



but if your talking about like home dvd's, well then thats a different story.

yeah, if they're "legally owned", we can talk about that, along with those that are your personal movies that also happen to have encryption. Anyways, I always used dvd decrypter, but you might have trouble finding it now, laws changed that made it illegal. If you can't find that, there's dvd shrink, but it doesn't work as well, personal opinion. Once you get them onto your hard drive, if you want to turn them into .avi files instead of keeping a 4.5 or 9 gig movie on your computer, I use Auto Gordian Knot (typically called Auto GK), look at the walkthrough that comes with it to figure out all the options

And if you want to keep the full 4.5 or 9GB file on your computer (perhaps for burning to a DVD later), try DVD Decrypter.

Actually even if you own the movies, its still illegal. You are still physically copying the movie onto your computer.

Anything that breaks the copy protection on a dvd is illegal, and in order to copy it to your computer you need ot break the protection, thus making it illegal.

You know, you told him how to do that without him even saying if there retail movies or his own, lol



If you want to copy non-copy righted movies, such as home movies, then nero does a great job with that.

i just want them so i can copy them onto my computer and i dont have to keep having to put the disk in all the time, im not trying to copy loads of the movie onto disks

Nero's not great for getting them onto the computer, unless you want an image you can mount to a virtual drive, which isn't really the most efficient way. Of course, if it's a home movie (or other non-encrypted movie) you can just copy all the files using Windows Explorer, but DVD Decrypter deals with errors on the DVD better anyway.



Aside from any legal questions, you'll fill up even a large hard drive VERY quickly, if you want to keep them uncompressed.

alright, two things (assuming the movie is legal):


- how can you get an .avi file movie onto a dvd, such as to watch in a dvd player?

- and once you get a movie on your computer with decrypter, how can you duplicate it onto another disc?