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I have read reports that dvd decrypter can rip to a hd in 15-30 mins but when I tried it took over an hour. Any help greatly appreciated.
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Dan

Depends on the spec of the indivual PC to a extent.



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open DVD decrypter.

On the top, click on "Mode" then on the drop down menu click on "ISO" then click on "Read"

You have now set DVD Decrypter to make an ISO image of the DVD.

This takes around 15 to 20 mins.

open up DVD Shrink (I`m assuming you have that) and then using the ISO you have just made, shrink it to a DVD R




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67suissac[at]moc.tenretnitb/cassius76.html" target="_blank">JamesL

You also have to bear in mind the level of compression and passes and so on.

Shrink can do a single movie with a single 5.1 soundtrack pretty quickly, but if you want the whole shebang, it takes quite a while to compress.

on the fly encoding can take up to 2 hours

if you rip to HD first then encode, 1 hour.

But as you said, it depends on whether you want the entire disc, or if you ar re authoring.

Just Ripping a DVD to a HD though as an ISO take 15 - 20 mins.

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67suissac[at]moc.tenretnitb/cassius76.html" target="_blank">JamesL

Avoid ripping to an ISO image if you don`t have W2000 or XP (or if you have XP installed with a FAT32 file system) because it`s likely that your image will be over the 4gb limit that FAT32 imposes. I prefer DVD Shrink to DVD Decrypter-it`s got more options.

If it`s a non commercial disc, just copy the video_ts folder to your HDD -shouldn`t take more than 10 minutes to do that. Then just burn that as a DVD-Video disc

Hi I have Windows XP installed - but how do I know if Ihave a fat 32 file system?

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Dan

try ripping the disc....

I have NFTS I was under the impression that FAT32 went out with windows millenium.....

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67suissac[at]moc.tenretnitb/cassius76.html" target="_blank">JamesL

Click on My Computer, right click on Local Drive (C: ) and choose "properties" from the drop down list. It`ll tell you what the file system is (almost certainly NTFS)


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This item was edited on Tuesday, 15th November 2005, 18:48

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I prefer DVD Shrink to DVD Decrypter-it`s got more options.
Well, they`re different tools really. Many of the newer films won`t rip at all using DVD Shrink alone (try doing a Sony one with the newer Arccos protection....).
DVD Decrypter is pretty much recognised as the best ripper/decrypter - although it`s no longer developed.
You`re usually best to rip with the latest version of Decrypter and then compress with Shrink (or Recode, DVD2One FabDecrypter etc...)
Ste