

You might want to dedicate a weekend to this if your collection is big. The higher quality would render slow and take more space. It can be more or less depending on the quality you choose at the time of ripping. A standard 4.7 GB DVD took around 20 minutes to generate the MP4 with some compression and the resulting file was around 832 MB which is decent. Now Depending on the length of the movie, scratches on the DVD, and chosen preset, you might want to wait for a while.

It is nevertheless a good software to rip DVDs. Its UI is pretty complicated and the elderly might find it potentially intimidating. It wasn’t an ideal choice for the huge collection I had due to slower rendering speed.

Handbrake is another open source ripper that I found but it doesn’t support DRM protected disks and is slow at render. We need a special software to achieve that so I had looked up a couple of software online and came across Winx DVD Ripper and we’ll show you how to Rip DVDs with WinX DVD Ripper. Additionally, the content is fragmented on the DVD and looking for your specific video file is hard. Most of the DVDs are DRM protected and you can’t just copy the contents to your computer. So instead I took it upon myself to digitize the files for him. I have a huge collection of DVDs which I inherited from my father because he felt too sad throwing the collection out. Even though we’ve moved to more efficient file formats, our collection has stayed on the shelf unused.
