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Looking for a DVD drive that does not limit its speed reading CSS-protected DVDs

I want to backup some video DVDs, yet speed is quite low at ~5MB/s or ~4x-DVD-mode. Some research showed that some drives have a built-in auto-throttle "feature" which kicks in as soon as an ...
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How do I copy DVDs to a hard disk?

I want to copy movie DVDs to an old 1TB external disk where they won't be susceptible to scratching. How do I do this? What software do I use to rip those DVDs? What about copy protection? What ...
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What's the easiest way to rip a DVD on Windows and have the files compressed? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: DVD ripper for Windows Which is the best tool to convert DVD films to avi (ripping)? I tried DVD Shrink, but it doesn't compress while ripping. I need an easy way to ...
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Is there software to convert a DVD in to h.264 but keep the menus?

I am under the assumption that between a MPEG-2 file and a h.264 file of the same quality, the h.264 file will be smaller; if this assumption is wrong please correct me. I love extra features on ...
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What is the fastest way to rip DVDs to my PC?

I have quite a slow PC with only 2GB of RAM, Intel Pentium Dual Core 2GHz, Windows 7. I'm using the latest version of handbrake to try and rip a 2 and a half hour DVD but it says it will take 11 ...
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Are ripped mp4's from original cd with iTunes protected with my iTunes account password?

When I rip an original cd of mine, are the resulting mp4's in iTunes library protected from unauthorized access? Is my iTunes password still necessary?
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Make a local copy of a vbulletin forum

could someone recommend a piece of software that let's me make a copy of a vbulletin forum on a website? I am a member and would like to make an offline copy... the issue I have is that is requires ...
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Rip an homemade DVD-Video without re-encoding on Mac OSX Lion

I have an home-made DVD-Video (without any copy protection whatsoever) and I'd like to import its content to iDVD on my Mac OSX Lion system to make new menus and cut some of the video sequences to ...
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cd ripping software with error detection / correction

Ive used CDEx on Windows in the past, but it requires 3rd party aspi drivers to be installed to function - which don't support USB DVD drives. More recently i've been using Asunder on Ubuntu... ...
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How to rip Blu-Ray discs using open source software

How can one rip Blu-Rays that he or she owns via AnyDVD as the decoder? Open source would be prefer but not require. H.264 video codec is preferred. Current Software: AnyDVD HD & Handbrake ...
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How to identify music after ripping an audio CD? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Auto-tagging MP3s I've just ripped some audio CDs that I've burned a while back. Since I made the CDs, I mostly know what songs are on, but it would be a pain to rename ...
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any method available to get blu-ray discs into m4v or similar that an AppleTV can play *without* transcoding?

FWIW, scenario is trying to take movies I own the physical discs for and make them available through our AppleTV, so my kids can play them without having to deal with the actual discs. We have a ...
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Are the tools to rip a DVD different from the tools for ripping a VCD?

What are your suggested tools to rip a VCD? There might be multiple discs, and I don't want to lose too much quality and detail.
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DVD Decrypter for linux

I am looking for an alternative to DVD Decrypter that will run under Ubuntu 11.04. Can anyone recommend software for this? I do not need encoding/transcoding or anything fance like that, my only ...
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Is it possible to determine if a 256kbps mp3 is just an mp3 with a lower bit-rate that was converted up to 256kbps?

Every place I look that discusses digital audio quality seems to talk about almost nothing but bit-rate. However, it seems to me that the bit-rate only indicates the number of kbps, and not the actual ...
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Software that can take a whole folder of videos and rip the audio into mp3 format with just one click?

I know there's literally thousands of programs that let you rip mp3 audio from videos that you've downloaded, but I want one that will let me give it a list of 50+ files to convert, let me walk away ...
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Why rip CDs or download music at high bitrates (eg beyond 192 Kbps)?

Here are the facts as I have read them: Most humans cannot hear the difference beyond ~192Kbps (a full, scientific study would be great) CD audio is encoded at 1378.125Kbps Okay, so the latter ...
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Ripping blu-ray with subtitles, HD audio, for Windows Media Center?

I am looking for an easy method to rip a blu ray to my HD, be able to play it in Windows Media Center, and add subtitle support with HD audio. There are far too many methods out there, and the last ...
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Is it illegal to use software video ripping software such as Handbreak, AnyDVD, etc?

Is it illegal for one use a ripping and decoding software to rip his or her own DVD collection? Does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act make it illegal? I was always under the impression that a ...
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Extract music files from a Audio CD [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What good, free audio CD ripping/extraction tools exist for Windows, and supporting multiple formats? I have an audio cd, which has audio files with the file format as ...
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Having Trouble Ripping Some CD's

When I buy CD's I tend to rip them to FLAC right away. When ripping I use Foobar2000 or Exact Audio Copy and enable secure ripping which uses error correction. Recently I bought a 2 CD compilation ...
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Split MonkeyAudio (.ape + .cue + .log) of whole audio CD into MP3 of individual tracks

I have whole audio CD ripped to single audio file in MokeyAudio (.ape) format, together with .cue and .log files (using Exact Audio Copy, from comment in .cue file). How to split this one large audio ...
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How do I copy only certain parts of a DVD and burn them to a different DVD?

I have DVDs (movies and TV shows, that is) that I would like to backup for my own use but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. I've been using DVD Decrypter to get the files from the DVDs but my ...
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How to Keep Video and Audio in Sync When Ripping a DVD?

I have been using the freeware version of the WinX DVD Ripper (http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-ripper/) to rip some DVDs. The DVDs that I have been ripping are not the DVDs that a person would buy in a ...
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Ripping DVDs conserving languages and subtitles

I have a collection of DVDs which occupy a lot of space and keep getting scratched by misbehaving children. While I'm working on educating my kids, I'm actually looking for a technical solution to my ...
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How to verify FLAC files against the AccurateRip database?

I've been ripping my CD's to CUE+FLAC so that I get image files that allow me to replicate the actual CD. This serves me as a backup and as an easy access to the "media" if I need to re-rip the CD's ...
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Is there a program to rip multiple CDs to mp3 and then burn them onto a single CD?

What free software will allow me to rip a song or two off of a CD, then insert another CD to rip another song or two, until I have enough to fill a blank CD. I would also like it to burn the blank ...
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How to use ffmpeg to rip part of a VOB file

I want to convert a VOB file to another video format using ffmpeg. The video that I'm interested in is found in the first half of the VOB file. Is there a way to convert only the part that I'm ...
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How can I rip a DVD-A (DVD-Audio) disc containing music in 5.1 surround sound format?

What application can I use? What audio format should I choose to encode the files?
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Copy from CDROM is very slow in Ubuntu

I'm using the command to copy CDROM image: # dd if=/dev/sr0 of=./maverick.iso But it's very slow, at about 350k bytes/sec. I've searched the google, and try the command # hdparm -vi /dev/sr0 ...
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ripping cds to play on stereo

Is AIFF still around? Has it been replaced by ALAC? What is the best format to use to hold fidelity on a home system fidelity on a stereo system, when down the road I can't make CDs? An analog, ...
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Automatically convert audio files in a certain folder

Anyone know of an application that automatically* converts audio files in a certain folder from one format to another? *By automatically, I mean that there is no user interaction besides initial ...
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What are some DVD Unprotecting software?

Can you please list off what are some DVD unprotecting applications that are available to download. I use Need4Video DVD Ripper to rip my DVDs. However, it will only rip unprotected DVDs. I will ...
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Very simple CD ripper software free? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What good, free audio CD ripping/extraction tools exist for Windows, and supporting multiple formats? Hi My mom got an mp3 for audiobooks, they come on discs. I need ...
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Rip whole audio CD to 1 file

Which program can do it for ubuntu? Many can rip audio file by file. I'm looking for software that can rip a whole audio CD to 1 file.
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Easy mass ripping of CD's?

I have tens of CD's that I wish to rip (so to be able to listen to on my computer). What (free) software (for PC, but also for Mac would be interesting) can help me get the most ripping in the least ...
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Recording streaming audio track (m4v)

I'd like to rip the audio track from Joel's speech at Business on Software 2009, but didn't manage to find how to download the m4v file by looking through the log file when my browser plays the video. ...
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Making image of DVD for later compression? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: opensource / freeware application for windows 7 to create ISO images What is the best way to make an ISO file out of a DVD? I'm using Windows (Vista), and have no ...
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free cd ripper software on windows [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What good, free audio CD ripping/extraction tools exist for Windows, and supporting multiple formats? I am looking to find a cd ripper software package that is free for ...
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Simple utility to rip ISO's on Windows (7)

I'm after a really simple utility to rip ISO's from CD's and DVD's on Windows 7. Ideally it would be very small, free and have no spammy-ness to it (no advers, no nags etc). A simple right click of ...
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Why is Ripping a DVD on OS X so Slow?

I need to rip a few dozen DVDs. However, it takes about 45 minutes or so per DVD. Anyone know why there seems to be a limit to ripping speed? Running Macbook Pro, 4GB Ram, Intel CPU, OS X 10.6.4. ...
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how to rip several minutes of dvd with subtitles - using VLC

Title says it all...I want to rip several minutes of a DVD movie - with subtitles - using VLC (or Handbrake). How can I do this? OS is Windows 7.
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Ripping sound from avi video file to mp3? (on Windows)

Ripping sound from .avi video file to .mp3? (on Windows) What software (free) can do the task ?
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Ripping sound from online video? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Ripping sound from online video through soundcard? Edit from the author: This thread is NOT duplicate, but an extension of a very limited question. Please let this ...
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Ripping sound from online video through soundcard?

There are a couple of videos on the Web whose soundtracks I'd like to rip so I can listen to them at the gym, but all of the web apps like KeepVid that I tried failed downloading them. As a ...
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How can I rip a DVD but merge/join episodes

Some background. I have the Pink Panther Collection, they have about 30 episodes on each DVD. Now I want to watch this on my $MobileDevice. So I went and converted it to both m4v and avi. This of ...
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What is the best method for ripping DVD to stream to Xbox 360?

What is the best method to rip/encode a standard definition DVD, to be streamed to a Xbox360 from a Vista Media Center pc (preferably using free software). I’ve found tons of tutorials on the web ...
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Episode by episode DVD Rip to AVI on Windows 7

I'm looking for a Windows tool to rip DVD files to AVI files. VidCode looks cool, but it wants to convert the whole DVD (all files in the VIDEO_TS folder) to one AVI. I would like to pull each ...
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Mac Disk-Utility input/output error

a couple of other people have posted about this but my specific problem has not been addressed. For months I have been backing up DVDs and home movies with no problem then all of a sudden I get an ...
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Fix Video timelines

So, I have been going through and riping all of my DVD's and it seems that the way to get the highest quality out of these is to have DVD Shrink de-encrypt, rip, and decompress, the DVD's. After that ...

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