Greetings Brains department.

 

I was wondering if anyone can recommend a free DVD ripper/converter so I can rip a few box sets to PC and then put them onto a large SDXC card for watching on my phone (Galaxy S8+) or tablet (Tab S2 9.7 LTE).

 

I'm just getting bogged down and everything I've tried so far doesn't work for me.

 

Or if you know what settings I should be using please can you let me know what they are.  

 

The reason I'm doing it is because I've got a hospital stay approaching and I'd like to have NCIS (got series 1-12) or couple of films to watch whilst I'm stuck in there.

 

TIA

handbrake.fr

 

It should have presets for phone sizes if that's all you're going to watch it on. I've done hundreds of movies and dozens of TV shows with it and had no issues at all.

I've got Handbrake and I've had nothing but difficulty with it and as I'll be having a phone & a tablet with me during my few days stay in there I need to get it right. I've actually found an old version of WinX DVD Ripper on a back up drive and am trying that and converting to mp4 format and telling it to keep the screen ratio & audio the same as on DVD.

 

Hopefully it'll work.

What's been your issue with Handbrake? I literally open the movie, click on a preset and click go and I have an mp4 movie that works on pretty much every device I own. The only hassle I've ever met is when I want to use soft subtitles when foreign language in the films isn't burnt in. But that's my own OCD for not wanting the hideous subtitle font etched onto the movie.

 

The only other software I use for ripping is MakeMKV – usually for all my blu-ray rips. If your android will play MKV files you could try that as a full solution, otherwise you can rip to MKV and convert that to mp4 with any video conversion tool (I use handbrake on the MKV when ripping blu-ray).

I find that with Handbrake the sound is garbled and/or very quiet, if it actually "appears" at all and sometimes the video output is weird and unwatchable and yes I do have the latest version.

 

I'm using VLC as the media player BTW.

I used to do a lot of this, so I checked in my old software library and found:

 

dvdshrink 

DVD_Decrypter

PQDVD

WinAVI.

 

In the modern world of 2017 techradar recommends these:

 

http://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-free-dvd-ripper

2 hours ago, camelspyyder said:

I used to do a lot of this, so I checked in my old software library and found:

 

dvdshrink 

DVD_Decrypter

PQDVD

WinAVI.

 

In the modern world of 2017 techradar recommends these:

 

http://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-free-dvd-ripper

 

Been there checked them, I've got handbrake & Make MKV installed, but as I've said handbrake isn't very good IMO, it's too complicated and it hasn't produced any good results so far.

Tucows /downloads ( http://www.tucows.com/downloads)

might be worth a look .

On 8/8/2017 at 15:42, TheWanderer said:

I find that with Handbrake the sound is garbled and/or very quiet, if it actually "appears" at all and sometimes the video output is weird and unwatchable and yes I do have the latest version.

 

I'm using VLC as the media player BTW.

I've found VLC hopeless on my tablet (Hudl 2/Fire 6). A shame as it's great on PC/Mac. I've started using Kodi (playing local media, not streaming) and it plays the videos VLC struggles with no bother.