Every Flavour Beans

I am using DVDDecrypter as an example ripping tool in the following steps. It is a small download(less than 1MB), runs efficiently, is totally free of cost and supports many encryption keys. Any other ripping software should also serve the needs equally well.

DVDDecrypter should automatically start and show the available tracks/files that can be ripped as soon as the movie DVD is inserted into the DVD drive. If not, open it manually from the Start menu.
The hard disk partition that has maximum free space available will be automatically selected as the destination for the ripped files. You can change it by clicking the yellow folder icon(“Browse for a folder”) and selecting a destination location.

By default, all the tracks will be selected to be ripped. Un-select the files that you don’t want to rip. To start the ripping process, click the “Decrypt” button.

The entire DVD structure should be available in the destination folder at the end of the ripping process. The ripping process is generally fast enough on a decent computer(roughly 5-12 mins). There are plenty of other free and commercial DVD ripping software available, so just google for them to try and find out which suits your taste the best.

This is a simple enough procedure. Real options start to emerge while compressing the ripped movie files. The best destination format for compression in my opinion is AVI/XviD as it can be played on a lot of platforms and it is also easy to convert to other formats recognised by today’s popular handheld devices(iPod, N800, PSP etc). Topic for the next post!