You pay money for your DVDs, but they're hardly the only format you need these days. This article will show you four DVD ripping tools, these four ripping tools ensure you can back them up, keep them on your media server, and load them on your favorite portable player.
1. DVD Shrink (Windows)
DVD Shrink is a free and capable ripping tool that excels at, as the name would imply, shrinking DVDs. DVDs come in two common formats: DVD-5 (4.7GB) and DVD-9 (8.5GB); the Reauthor mode in DVD Shrink helps you to ditch disc extras and strip most larger DVDs down to fit into a standard (and less expensive) DVD-5 disc. DVD Shrink does a good job handling many protection schemes, but hasn't been updated to remove some of the newest schemes.
2. Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum (Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista)
Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum is easy-to-use and powerful DVD Ripping software. The DVD Ripper Platinum software can rip DVD movies to almost all popular video and audio formats such as MP4, MP4 AVC, M4V, AVI, WMV, MOV, RM, 3GP, 3G2, MPG, MPEG, FLV, WMA, M4A, MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, ASF, Vob, etc with excellent quality and super fast DVD Ripping speed!
Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum is the first and best DVD Ripper software that supports almost all portable video/audio players. It lets you easily rip DVD to Video iPod, Zune, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, Archos, iRiver PMP Player, Creative Zen, PMP, MP4/MP3 Player, Smart Phone, Pocket PC, PDA, Mobile Phone and so on.
3. Handbrake (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Handbrake is a DVD-ripping tool with a strong emphasis on not just ripping media but recoding it for playback on computers, portable devices, and other non-disc based systems. Handbrake can help you convert DVDs and other MPEG-based video into MP4 and MKV files. You can tweak settings like video frame rate and audio codec playback to your heart's content with Handbrake, and even batch encode all your media at one time to make filling up your iPod or other device relatively painless. The one major shortcoming of Handbrake is that it doesn't have any copy protection removal tools built in, which means you may occasionally need to use a 3rd-party stripping tool to prepare your DVD for conversion.
4. DVD Decrypter (Windows)
Although DVD Decrypter hasn't been updated since 2005, it still works on a significant number of DVDs and has a strong following resulting from both its original user base and new users who find it cuts through the copy protection on their current DVDs protected with CSS, Macrovision content protection, region codes, and other hindrances.
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