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Originally posted by Pr0xY
Is there a way to find out if my DVD rom drive on my laptop is capible of copying the movie to my hard drive. Or can any DVD Rom drive do it. I just want to make sure before I download a program for it.
Also, What are some good programs that you would suggest me using.
Thanks
If your DVD Rom is a Reader/Writer than it can play and burn movies. If it just just a reader, than you can only watch it (rip it). You can see if it is by looking at the label (
image). Or by right clicking on it and going into the properties (
image). I would suggest you download DVD Decrypter (
Download Link). Although it has been
shut down thanks to the wonderful people of Macrovision it can rip pretty much any DVD. If you have any trouble you might want to try DVDFab Decrypter. It doesn't have many options (can't disable PUOs) but it does the trick.
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Originally posted by Garndell
You could try ratDVD which copies the Menu's & Special Features aswell. It comes out at roughly 1.5GB but the quality is excellent. Also, it's completely FREE!
That doesn't handle encrypted content. Only DVDs which have been decrypted by DVD Decryptor for example.
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Originally posted by Regexp
Someone also suggested AutoGordianKnot, but I haven't tried it.
AutoGordianKnot doesn't rip DVDs. You would need a program like DVD Decrypter for that.
A good place for guides on how to successfully rip a DVD is
doom9.org.
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