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Thread ID: 105187 2009-11-22 14:36:00 DVD ripper won't do a series! Why? Adrain (12668) Press F1
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832526 2009-11-23 05:36:00 The best programmes to copy "episode" DVDs are 1Click DVD Copy Pro, closely followed by DVDFab 6 :) Zippity (58)
832527 2009-11-24 16:57:00 X-Media Recode will do it too and its much better than Handbrake.
DVD Shrink will make an ISO you could burn with Image Burn.
After Dawn and Doom 9 are good sites that go into all of this sort of thing in great detail.
Roger Hunt (13648)
832528 2009-11-24 18:11:00 i got one that i use called fairuse nedkelly (9059)
832529 2009-11-24 23:32:00 There's no need to pay for any DVD ripping tool, they can all do it, you just have to make sure you select the right files. Agent_24 (57)
832530 2009-11-25 03:09:00 If you have VLC installed you can rip using handbrake. A free option worth trying plod (107)
832531 2009-11-25 03:20:00 What I do is rip the DVD to the HDD using DVD decryptor/DVDFab 6.

I then select the resulting VIDEO_TS folder in Handbrake.

Once the DVD has been loaded into handbrake, you can select the different "titles". Each "title" that has a length of ~24min or ~40-45min is usually a single episode.
I select a title (usually the first in the list), set my encoding settings and choose an output filename (I usually use Series Name [1x05] for example). I then add the job to the queue. After that, all I have to do is select each title in turn, increment the episode number on the output filename and add it to the queue. Then move on to the next DVD-open it, select the first appropriate title and increment the episode number. Repeat untill you have as many DVD's as you are comfortable with converting in one session.
Then it's simply a matter of hitting the encode button, and leave it doing it's thing for the next day or so (depending on episode number, encoding settings and computer speed).

PS: I've found that in general the title order on the DVD's corresponds to the chronological order of the epsiodes, however this is not always the case, so you may need to rename some of the episodes at the end if they do not correspond to the actual video.
Sherman (9181)
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