DVD Ripper Software Review

Why Use a DVD Ripper?

Convenience, portability and safe-keeping are three good reasons to use DVD ripper software. Your DVDs, Blu-rays, and home videos can all be stored in one convenient location, so you don’t have to look for the disc every time you want to watch a movie – simply pull it up through your computer of choice. Why is portability important? If you have a vacation planned and don’t want to pack all your movies, just bring your computer with countless digitized movies. There will be enough to keep the kids busy or to provide you with the entertainment you are looking for.

Digitizing your DVD collection is an ideal form of insurance against damage, theft or loss. DVD rippers make DVD backup a simple matter of capturing a disc image and saving it on your hard drive. Most DVD ripper software enables you to burn DVDs too. So whether you prefer to back up your DVD collection with physical copies or with ISO image archives, a DVD ripper leaves the choice up to you.

In addition to burning DVD copies, creating DVD images and ripping video to a hard drive, DVD rippers typically function as video converters. Want to watch a WMP file on a Mac? With a video converter handy, a few mouse clicks will convert a video file from WMP to MOV format. DVD converters also take the hassle out of finding the newest AVI codec and fighting with the region codes on your laptop. Whether you’re backing up your media library or burning home movies to Blu-ray, this site is designed to help you find the right software. You can read the reviews on our top products – DVD Cloner, 123 Copy DVD and 1Click DVD Copy – as well as articles on DVD ripping software to provide additional information which may help you make your decision.

DVD Ripper Software: What to Look For

Good DVD ripping software will fulfill a handful of useful functions. Our top picks are easy to use, provide a straightforward interface and convert a number of video formats. Good DVD ripper software choices feature functionality for Blu-ray Disc ripping in addition to standard video formats. The best rippers also make 1:1 DVD copies, also called DVD clones, rip audio and support major audio file formats. We chose our top 10 DVD rippers based on the following criteria:

Feature Set
DVD ripping software comes with some essential features you shouldn’t go without and some special features that, although not necessary for DVD ripping, provide additional ease of use and copy quality. Some of the features that we take into account when ranking the various DVD ripping software choices include overall copy time, CSS decryption and editing capabilities that allow you to omit or keep bonus material as well as read and restore scratched DVDs. The features are a large part of DVD ripping software because they make it possible for you to rip, edit, save and watch the DVDs how you want.

Quality of Copy
In addition to copying DVDs, Blu-ray Discs and other HD media, top-notch DVD ripping software will support most major file formats and will allow you to convert your video files into a number of file types. Throughout the copy and converting process it is important to make sure your end result carries the same high-quality picture and sound that you started with in the original.

Application Stability
To give each product a proper ranking we looked at the stability of each product. Stability encompasses the product’s ease of installation, available help, error messages and necessary additional downloads. We believe that each DVD ripper software choice should be complete and ready to use from the time you purchase it, working without problems and providing necessary help as required.

Ease of Use
For the Ease of Use section we collected thoughts from several different users and compiled them into one overall score. While using the various DVD ripper software choices we paid close attention to the navigation, interface design, cleanliness and overall simplicity. If the product was easy to navigate and left little room for questions, it received an appropriate score. If the product was confusing, hard to navigate and left the user with questions, the score was lowered.

Ease of Installation
This ranking is based on the installation process: installation time, ease and compatibility. While some products install just fine, others will give you an error message when you try to install them with another application already on your computer. We searched for the most user-friendly applications in all areas, and installation compatibility is one we felt shouldn’t be overlooked.

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Overall Rating
Ratings
Feature Set
Quality of Copy
Application Stability
Ease of Use
Ease of Installation
 
Feature Set
Time to Complete Copy 30 Minutes 30 Minutes 20 Minutes 1 Hour 1 Hour 1 Hour 45 Minutes 20 Minutes 1 Hour 1 Hour
CSS Decryption Built-in Add-on Add-on Built-in Add-on Built-in Built-in None Built-in Built-in
Copies to/from Hard Drive
 
Ability to Omit Bonus Material
 
 
Ability to Retain Bonus Material
 
Supports Menus
 
Episodic DVD Support
 
Compress DVD-9 to DVD-5
 
Multiple Lanugage Support
 
 
Restores Defective or Scratched DVDs
     
Removes Region Codes
 
 
 
Merge
  
 
 
  
Output Media
DVD(+/-)R Dual Layer
 
DVD(+/-)R(W)
CD-R(W)
     
 
Output Formats
NTSC (Movies)
PAL (Movies)
AVI
   
   
DivX  
       
Support/Help
Email/Online Forms
Documentation/Help
 
Phone           
Supported Configurations
Windows 7
 
 
Windows Vista
 
Windows XP
Mac OSX