DVD ripper

Under a DVD rip is defined as the transfer of video and audio data from one DVD to another storage medium (usually to the hard disk of a PC ), which can also be connected to a circumvention of copy protection mechanisms ( ribs).

The concept of DVD ripping, also known as DVD ripping, early 21st century in the movie Pirate jargon arose when the DVD format itself was still relatively young. Today it is a widely popular term.

A DVD Rip initially either the complete DVD, the main movie or only certain elements for further processing are copied to the hard disk. Although further processing directly from the DVD would be possible, which may be associated with a lower processing performance and a higher stress on the DVD drive, however. Since most DVDs are copy-protected, at the same time, so-called on-the -fly decryption -driver (copy geezer ) as Slysofts AnyDVD used. However, the use of such copy protection crackers is a criminal offense in some countries, provided that a technical device is bypassed and this not only happens to one's own personal use.

Encoder for processing corresponding software is generally used, which converts the data. The most widely used container formats for the creation of DVD - Rips are AVI and MPEG format, with the most popular codecs used for the operation H.264, Xvid and DivX are. Meanwhile, however, also the container format Matroska getting more and more popular due to its capabilities (such as subtitles and chapters).

Often to be generated a movie file, which is a lot smaller than the original media and still lose as little as possible of quality. The smaller the target file is to be, the more attention must be video and possibly also to compromise on audio quality. In general, additional data of the original, such as menus, extras, alternate audio tracks, subtitles, etc. omitted, leaving only the actual film is processed in the ribs. This is in many cases due to the fact that only a few container formats can store data such as menus and bonus material.

DVD copy

A DVD rip is not necessarily associated with a conversion to a different video format. Also to create a copy of it is usually required, "rip" the files from the DVD before the hard drive.

Since most of the original DVDs often a total size of more than 4.5 gigabytes (DVD 9), the data size is reduced by re-encoding so as to fit exclusively on a commercial single-layer DVD ( DVD 5 ). It is true that with so-called double-layer DVD blanks almost exact copies of DVD movies are made, but also because of the high prices for such blanks and possible compatibility issues often choose many users for the recoding. For this special video software programs like DVD Shrink, DVDFab or Nero Recode are used. The omission of audio tracks, subtitles or additional material ( menu, interviews) can possibly be spared for the main movie of a recompression or only a slight compression necessary.

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