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Old Aug 6, 2007 | 09:40 PM
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Mediagate Users: DVD Ripping

OK. Bought my TL-S in June. Started reading AZ soon afterwards. Inspired by all the DIY threads and photos for the Mediagate and Dom's unit. Bought all the gear and I have just one question...

How are you guys ripping your dvds so quickly. I've used DVD Decrypter a couple of times and it takes about 1.5 hours to create the iso plus the time to transfer the iso to my Mediagate. Is there a faster way to get my dvds on my Mediagate?
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Old Aug 24, 2007 | 09:15 PM
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it wont play AVI?
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Old Aug 26, 2007 | 07:54 AM
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Question You guys have a better idea?

Yes, it plays them. My question revolves around converting my DVDs into some format quickly. I haven't had any feedback on this, so I've just been snooping around the 'net. This is what I've come up with so far:

For movies:
1. Create an ISO with DVD Decrypter. This takes about 30 minutes and leaves me with a singe .iso file that's about 7-8GB.
2. Compress with DVD Shrink. This takes about 45-60 minutes and leaves me with a folder full of files totalling about 4-5GB.
3. Copy to Mediagate and enjoy.

For stuff like The Simpson's DVDs
1. Convert each episode to <episode title>.mp4 with Aimersoft. This takes about 60 minutes to convert an entire disk (about 6 episodes.)
2. Copy to Mediagate and enjoy.

I like the Aimersoft route for TV show DVDs because it's a hassle to have to load the whole DVD image and go through the DVD menu to select the episode you want only to find the episode I'm looking for isn't on that DVD. For movies like The Matrix that isn't a big deal but for TV shows it's quite annoying.

I like Aimersoft but I haven't committed to it yet...it isn't free (about $35).
It has a nice interface and is easy to use.
But it costs $$ and is slow.

What do you guys use?
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Old Aug 26, 2007 | 08:47 AM
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I use dvd shrink works way faster than dvd decrypter and you can compress the movie more since the screen quality doesn't require a full dvd backup

dvd shrink also lets you rip select parts of the movie and save (you can delete the menus and all the excess stuff you don't want) check it out... works the best

lastly dvdshrink is freeware
http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/

ps. It also breaks the encription on dvds so dvd decrypt is useless
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Old Aug 26, 2007 | 03:44 PM
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dvd shrink does it all, you don't need dvd decrypter.
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Old Aug 27, 2007 | 07:47 AM
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Thx, I'll have to play around with it a bit more. Will it also let you save each episode as its own file?
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Old Aug 27, 2007 | 09:29 AM
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I used dvdshrink when I had my mediagate. Worked great!
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