DVD Ripping & ISO Guide
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Outline
Use this guide as the first step in learning how to rip DVDs for playback on your NMT device. This is the quickest approach to get a playable movie on your NMT as it does not compress the movie any further than the source DVD itself and thus maintains the same level of video and audio quality, chapters and subtitles without significant work.
The down side of this approach is that the result will have a similar file size to the source DVD, typically somewhere between 3-7GB, although it is possible to discard easily unwanted titles from the source DVD such as supporting features to the movie, foreign language soundtracks and subtitles to save some space.
See Encoding Guide for DVD to H264 for a more sophisticated method to shrink the DVD further, albeit one which will take more time.
This guide has chosen the .ISO container for the resulting movie files as this produces a single file containing all the component files which is much easier to administer. It is easy enough to extract the component files from the .ISO at a later date so this is not a one way process. The resulting .ISO file from this approach will contain:
- video
- audio
- chapters
- subtitles
What You Need
Tools and Apps:
Step 1: Rip the DVD to hard disk
First we need to configure AnyDVD, to do this, start AnyDVD if it is not already running and right click the fox icon on the bottom of your screen and select the 'Settings' menu option.
This guide uses AnyDVD version 6.5.5.5
When you insert a DVD into your drive, AnyDVD will scan the drive automatically and show you the region code and copy protection used:
Ensure you have set the following on the 'Video DVD' tab
And you have set the following on the 'Settings' tab
And you have set the following on the 'Subtitles' tab
Now we are ready to rip the DVD; click the 'Ok' button on the Settings dialog box and right click on the fox icon again then select the menu option 'Rip Video DVD to Hardisk'
Select the target directory for the DVD files and then click the 'Copy DVD' button
When AnyDVD has completed you are ready to progress to the next stage.
Step 2: Rip the whole DVD to a .ISO file using ImgBurn
Start ImgBurn and select the 'Build Mode' (pick the menu option 'Mode'->'Build'), yhen switch the Output Mode to Image File (pick 'Output'->'Image File'), then click on the 'Browse for a folder...' button in the source box, and navigate to the folder where you saved the files.
When you have chosen the folder you require, click on the Calculator button to see if it will fit on the disc. If you are just creating the ISO on your PC for playback, then the size doesn't matter.
Now click on the 'Options' tab, and ensure 'ISO9660 + UDF' is selected in the 'File System' drop down box. You should also configure the other options as shown below.
Next pick the 'Labels' tab and enter a name for your movie in both fields. This isthe 'volume label' of the .ISO if you were to burn it to a DVD and is what will be visible in 'My Computer' if you put the resulting disk in your DVD drive. For the purpose of this guide, you must enter a name for the movie here, although the NMT will not display this during playback. If you forget this part IMGBurn will later open a browser window with a suggestion for label names, just accept the suggestion.
Now you need to enter the file name for your image file in the 'Destination' box. In this example, we use 'D:\STAR_TREK_TOS_S1_DISC_1.iso'. You can enter it manually or click the 'Browse for a file...' button.
When you've done that, press the 'Build' button.
If your ISO is going to be larger than a single DVDR then you will get the following window:-
Select 'Ignore Layer Break Options' as you are creating a single ISO, without layer breaks, on your HDD. You will get the following window next:-
Select 'Yes' and 'OK' and ImgBurn will start building your ISO.
Then just wait a few minutes (system dependent) and your ISO will be ready.
Step 3: Rip a specific title from the DVD to a .ISO file using DVD Shrink
If you want to back up the whole DVD, then skip back to Rip the whole DVD to a .ISO file using ImgBurn. Whilst DVD Shrink can recompress the DVD, this guide aims to backup the DVD as quickly as possible without recompression. To disable any possible recompression, start DVD Shrink and select the Edit/Preferences menu option. Click on the Target DVD size drop down, select 'Custom' and then enter 10000MB as the disk size.
The click on the 'Output Files' Tab and deselect the 'Split VOB files into 1GB chunks (recommended)'
Now we are ready to open our DVD files, so click on the 'Open Files' icon and browse to the folder created by AnyDVD
Browse to the directory that contains the output from the AnyDVD ripping.
Here we can see the structure of the full DVD, but as we want to select only parts of the DVD, click on the 'Re-author' button.
To select a part of the movie, click on the Title in the main movie box. You can review the selected title to ensure you have the title you want by using the preview window in the bottom left hand side to play the title. When you have found the title, click and drag the title to the 'DVD Structure' window on the left hand side. Repeat this process as many times as you require to add further titles.
Right click on each Episode and set what Default Streams you wish to have associated with each of the Episodes when played:-
Click on the 'Compression Settings' tab to ensure you are taking only the audio tracks and subtitles you want. Don't be tempted to neglect the subtitles as the movie may have forced subtitles (e.g. where the characters talk Elvish in the 'Lord of the Rings') and if you do not select them, you will lose this important part of the movie.
Now you are ready to backup your movie, so click on the 'Backup' button.
You can click on the 'Select backup target' drop down and select 'ISO Image File' to create an .ISO, or backup to a DVD file structure and use ImgBurn to create the .ISO. Browse to you target directory, click 'Ok' and in a few minutes you will be done.
Q&A
Q: What is wrong with using DVD Decrypter?
A: DVD Decrypter is unmaintained software, and newer DVD titles include copy protection which DVD Decrypter cannot remove. Whereas AnyDVD is continually updated and if configured as shown it will remove the latest copy protection techniques that DVD Decrypter cannot.
Q: I don't have AnyDVD installed. Can I just use DVDShrink by itself?
A: NO! DVDShrink is unmaintained software, it does not remove the latest copy protection mechanisms. In addition it cannot cope with some Sony & LionsGate releases that have non-standard DVD structures. You MUST install and configure AnyDVD otherwise all copy protection mechanisms are not guaranteed to be removed. See here for a list of 'problem' releases that must be ripped with protection removed by AnyDVD.
Q: Can I not just go straight to an ISO file with AnyDVD since v.6.4.6.2?
A: Yes you can now simply rip your DVD to an ISO file by right-clicking on the AnyDVD tray icon and selecting 'Rip to image'. It is still however worth taking the time to create the ISO with IMGBurn to increase compatibility.
Q: Can I compress the output of AnyDVD with DVDShrink?
A: Yes you can compress the output with DVDShrink, you are losing quality. You should not use DVDShrink first or on its own as the protection needs removing to enable playback on some DVD's, particularly post 2006 releases.
