Questions tagged [ripping]
The act of taking the content of a CD or DVD and putting it into a file or files.
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DVD ripper for Windows [closed]
I am looking for a good DVD ripper software for Windows. Looking for something that will easily rip the raw bits DVD to hard drive without any loss of quality.
Looking for something that will easily ...
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What tool can I use to to rip DVD movies? [closed]
What tool can I use to to rip DVD movies? I have used "Dr. DivX" long back. Is there any better tool to rip DVDs?
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Best Mac OS X DVD Ripper [closed]
I want to rip a DVD on OS X, but don't know what software to use. Is there free open source software? What is the best software for ripping on OS X?
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How to convert .ogg to .mp3?
Ubuntu ripped a CD for me into audio files but they are all .ogg format which I can't play on my MP3 player.
How can I convert .ogg files to .mp3 files?
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How rip audio files from CD again?
I've ripped music files from my CD but they were in .wma format and cannot play on my Android phone. So that I need to re-rip them into .mp3 files.
But the ripped button is disabled in Windows Media ...
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How do I rip an audio CD to a single file?
Many programs rip audio as one file per track. I'm looking for a program or method that can rip the whole audio CD to a single file. Which program or method can do this in Ubuntu?
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Convert DVD to a flash application (including menus)
I was wondering if it is possible to convert a dvd to a flash application which I could then embed in a website. What I am looking for is not simply ripping the video, but something that encodes the ...
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Rip DVD on Linux
I want to rip a DVD and store it in a good and compressed format.
What software to use for that and what is the best format; I want best quality and low file size.
+1 if I don't have to install any ...
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Software to get audio from home DVDs?
Not for illegal use! I have some home movies and footage from a wedding, and I'd like to easily 'rip' or extract the audio to WAV/MP3/etc.
If the audio came off as one big file, I am proficient ...
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How to play an original DVD (.VOB file) in VLC after copying it to my PC?
I have copied an entire DVD to my PC but when I try to play it in VLC it does not play perfectly and sticks every time. When it is played directly i.e. from the disc, it is played perfectly but in ...
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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 work-...
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Simple utility to rip ISO's on Windows (7) [closed]
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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What is the best file format/bit rate to rip tracks from a CD into iTunes? [closed]
I know it sounds subjective but its not meant to be. I am very new to ripping CD's using iTunes, and I'm confused over the different formats available. I have read Wikipedia regarding the AAC and ...
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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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New Dvds with 99 Title tracks, which one is the correct track?
I have embarked on the task of backing up my DVD collection. I have noticed that some of the newer movies I am attempting to rip contain 99 Title tracks all with approximately equal overall run times....
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Best way to rip DVD movies to ISO files
I'm trying to backup my DVD collection.
I have Handbrake, and will eventually experiment with the best settings to use.
For now, I'd like to backup the DVD's to ISO files, that i can mount and then ...
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Ripping audio CD from Windows command line
How can I rip an audio CD from the command line in Windows?
I've noticed that there are many programs under Linux, but under Windows, all CD rippers are with a graphical interface.
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Ripping a home video VCD on Linux or Windows with VLC or otherwise
I have a VCD with 22 minutes of video on it. I would like to retain this footage and throw away the VCD.
I can play the whole thing with VLC ("open disc -> vcd -> /dev/sr0 -> play"): all 22 minutes ...
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How can you rip a DVD using VLC media player on Mac OSX?
I want to be able to rip DVD's on my Mac using VLC media player.
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What's the point of CD drive offsets?
Why are there different offsets for CD Drives, what's does the read and write offsets mean? How can I know the offset for my CD/DVD writer?
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How to rip an asx stream - preferably free
I am trying to rip an asx stream through winamp (at present) on Windows XP (or Vista if necessary) using stream ripper, however it complains I have an Invalid URL (though the stream itself plays).
I ...
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How to interpret the output from Accuraterip verification?
Verifying a CD rip with accuraterip can be done on Linux using arverify from the cdrip-tools package as this question explains. However, I've struggled to find any documentation that explains the ...
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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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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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How to run Streamripper32 from Task Scheduler
I'm running Windows Vista and I have a program called Streamripper32 which takes radio streams and separates the songs into separate individual tracks and records them to a folder.
What I want to do ...
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Ripping Blu-Ray for Xbox 360 with Minimal Encoding
What's the best way to rip a Blu-ray disc to an Xbox 360 compatible format, while preferably maintaining surround sound and as little video encoding as possible? As far as I can tell, the 360 ...
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