Good DVDrip program ?

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paulcheung

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Hi all,

I have some Barney and other children dvds that I want to rip to the hard drive so my little daughter won't have to scatch them or can't find them.

Sometime ago I saw some tv show files with the extension mkv compare to the usual avi extension files, they are much smaller in size and better in quality. Can anyone tell me which programs can rip the dvds to mkv files with small file size and don't lose too much quality? pay or free program?

Thank you.
 
I'm sorry, but nobody will be able to help you here. What you are talking about would most probably involve circumventing copy protection, which cannot be discussed on this forum.

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Stripping DRM from media files.
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.mkv is more for making Bluray or other HD formats into reasonable file sizes, and maintain the higher resolutions that the HD formats have. Like a resolution of 1920x1080.

For the regular DVD's with resolutions of 720x480, converting to avi, or Divx offers good results, at about 1/3 to 1/4 the original DVD file size.

If you got lots of Hard Drive space just convert the DVDs multiple .vob files to a single .mpg format which gives you the same basic resolution of the typical off the shelf DVD, and a more user friendly format to just clink and play.
 
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Well the avi format use about 350mb on a 43minutes video with low quality playback. I have seen mkv format files only uses 129mb for a 43minutes video with higher quality playback and with good sounds. I have some mp4 video files are 1 gb and want to compress them to about 300mb in size and not lose too much quality.
thanks.
 
Sounds like you have been downloading pirated videos. The pirates make the videos 350mb, so 2 videos will fit on one CDR. This allows playback on DVD players that play avi files.
 
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