Ripping CD's is increasingly difficult because of the protection that manufacturers place on the disks.

Now however, there are some programs strong enough to break that protection such as RipIt4Me. These encryption methods cannot be dealt with by most major DVD rippers and burners because they employ such encryption as ARccOS and RipGuard DVD techniques that totally immobilise programs such as DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter. RipIt4Me is an incredibly powerful ripper which can handle just about any encryption. Of course, it should only be used for non commercial use - such as your own personal backups of your own commercial discs. The program is very simple to use with a "One Click" wizard to take you through the very simple ripping procedure which consists of little more than inserting a disc, browsing to a save location, and off you go. In it's latest incarnation, the program now has an automatic updater and an encryption decoder which detects whether the DVD appears to be protected or not. You'll see this displayed in the main window during the first step of the wizard.

This is a remarkably powerful ripping tool that can rip just about any copyrighted DVD (although not all) but only use it for your own backups.

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Do you have a favorite DVD movie that you would like to watch on the move on your mobile phone? Are you having trouble in finding the right app you convert it?

Plato DVD to 3GP Converter is what you're looking for. This simple video converter has been especially developed to convert DVD movies right into the standard video used for most mobile devices, 3GP.

The program is very easy to use. Simply load the DVD movie you want to convert from the DVD drive on your computer and tweak the conversion options according to your needs or the characteristics of the target mobile device: video size, bitrate, frame rate, aspect ratio and a lot more. The program can also be set to automatically shut down the computer when the conversion is finished. Apart from that, there are no other configuration settings.

I especially liked the simplicity of use of Plato DVD to 3GP Converter. On the downside, the interface is a bit too dull. Also, it would be great to have predefined profiles for certain devices, such as the iPod, the iPhone or the PSP.

If you want to convert your favorite DVD movies to 3GP and carry them on your mobile device wherever you go, this is the tool you need.

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You may have an astounding DVD movie collection, but unfortunately you can only enjoy it while sitting on the couch in your dining-room. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to watch DVD movies just anywhere?

This is precisely what you can do with Plato DVD Ripper Professional. This tool rips the contents of your favorite DVD movies and converts it to several other video formats, like those used in portable devices (such as iPod, iPhone, PSP or Zune), popular video devices like AppleTV and other video standards like the Youtube website or multimedia mobile phones.

Plato DVD Ripper Professional is very easy to use. Load the DVD movie, select the target format by clicking on its icon on the left side panel and finally click on the convert button. Every format includes several converting profiles to match different criteria, but if you don't like any of them you can create your own profile by customizing its settings at will. Besides these tweaks, the program doesn't really offer any other settings, except for scheduling the PC to automatically shut down after the recording is finished.

With Plato DVD Ripper Professional you can easily convert your favorite DVD movies to other video formats and enjoy them anywhere.

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DVD protection is advancing at an ever increasing rate but unfortunately for the manufacturers, so are the ripping programs. If you’ve ever had problem’s copying one of your favourite DVD’s (just to make sure you’ve got a backup of course) then DVDFab could be what you’reve been looking for. It has proved popular a hit with thousands of Softonic users so far and there seems little prospect of its popularity waning.

DVDFab is an all-in-one DVD copying/converting/burning software. In just one or two steps, you can copy DVD’s to DVDR/PSP and even iPods. For such a powerful package, it only requires a mere 1.3MB of your hard drive hardrive so its not bulky like similar packages. However, note that this is the ‘lite’ version of the software; and the fully featured Express edition will probably weigh-in at somewhat more than this.

The conversion process itself couldn’t be easier. There are 5 DVD to DVD copy modes available - Full Disc, Main Movie, Split, Customize and Clone. To use any, its simply a matter of inserting your disk and Windows will ask you if you want to open it with DVDFab amongst other programs installed on your PC. In Full Disc mode, all movies, menus and trailers, are copied to a DVD in one click. In “Main Movie” mode, only the movie is copied with your specified audio. In “Split”’ mode, you can copy a DVD-9 onto two DVD-5 discs but also preserve the original menus on both discs. According to the developers, this rare little feature is apparently ideal for TV series DVD’s.

The handy “customize” mode allows you to personalize your DVD’s by recording such things as only your favourite scenes, removing adverts or selecting only certain audio tracks. Finally, “Clone”’ mode allows you to make exact 1:1 bit-to-bit copy of DVDs or even copy games disks such as PS2 DVD’s. There is also a DVD to Mobile option so you can reduce your favourite films to watch on your iPod or other favourite hand held device. Formats available include MPEG-4, DivX, XVID and Mp4.

DVDFab is a tough cookie – even those disks that refuse to be copied with other programmes can usually be cracked. The customise option allows you to get rid of pesky files that stand in your way and just rip the actual movie or essential files. It can also help in reconstituting recovering scratched or dirty disks that don’t play properly in your DVD player anymore. In addition, the ripping speed is remarkably fast. Depending on the size of disk, you can record a new one in less than 10 minutes although the average time is around 30 minutes.

One of the minor drawbacks to this ripper is that the inevitably heavy processing power needed to rip a disk often results in crashes. This will obviously be less of a problem on more powerful machines but on machines with old processors, using DVDFab may become impractical. Many user forums are however full of praise for DVDFab claiming that it can rip more disks and whatsmore, faster than comparable products such as DVD Shrink or ShrinkTo5. At the end of the day, most users consistently report they appreciate the simplicity and power of this rip-roaring ripper.

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DVDFab Platinum is simply the easiest way to copy a DVD movie. Just insert the movie and a blank DVD then press Start. Your entire movie - including menus, trailers and special features - is copied to a single DVD with just one click, and everything happens automatically.

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Convert your video files into Flash FLV format using the FLV Hosting Encoder. FLV is a "Flash Live Video" file. It is a format that is designed for web playback, offering high rates of compression The Flash Player browser plugin can play an FLV, but the FLV must be either embedded in or linked to a SWF. That means, you can't just put the actual FLV on an HTML page. You can however reference the FLV file using action script and SWF

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With multimedia portable devices growing in popularity and features, it's not surprising that DVD ripping tools have started to offer support for them so that you can take your favorite movies anywhere with you.

Xilisoft DVD Ripper Ultimate is one of those applications: a full featured DVD ripper than can extract all data inside your DVD movies and convert it right away to another video format, including the most popular ones and – of course – video formats for mobile devices such as the iPod, the iPhone and the PSP.

The program lets you choose the video size, image quality and audio quality, and also create and use different profiles according to the target format or device. Also, it lets you trim specific video fragments, edit video effects, adjust subtitles and even add a watermark so that you obtain fully customized DVD video and audio files.

Additionally, it can help you clip video segment, crop video size, edit video effects, adjust subtitle, and add video watermark, to get the customized DVD audio and video files.

In addition to ripping the whole DVD, you can also select specific chapters and convert only those. The whole process is done via drop-down menus and the program is generally very easy to use.

With Xilisoft DVD Ripper Ultimate you can rip the contents of your favorite DVD movies and convert them to different formats – including mobile video - in just a few easy steps.

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ImTOO DVD to MP4 Converter is a fast, easy to use DVD to MP4 ripper which helps you rip DVD's, convert DVD's to MP4, AVI, MPEG4, DivX, XviD, Apple TV video and PSP AVC video format. With formats changing and developing all the time, a new profile of PSP AVC video in 480 X 272 (PSPEXT) has been added, while the profile of Apple TV video has been improved to improve playback.

The output movie is playable on most portable media players (MP4 players that is) which the developers say includes Archos AV500, Archos AV700, Archos Gmini402, iRiver PMP-100, Creative Zen Vision, PSP and iPod, etc.

The problem with many similar converters is that there are few customisation settings for those that need extra control over how their video comes out. ImToo DVD to Mp4 Converter does not disappoint here offering tons of options over such things as the aspect ratio, compression format used and other technical settings.

As a result, this program is not really suitable for those that just want a simple Mp4 conversion but is a solid product for those that need a bit more control over the output file.

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As multimedia portable devices grow in popularity and include more advanced features, DVD ripping tools have started offering support for them so that you can watch your favorite movies on the go.

ImToo DVD Ripper Platinum is among them. This application is a complete DVD ripper that extracts all the contents of your favorite DVD movies and converts them right away to another format, including the most common audio and video formats and – of course –for mobile devices such as the iPod, the iPhone and the PSP. The program works both with DVD discs and IFO files stored on your drive.

All available formats are presented as profiles with their own characteristics, but you may as well create your own user-defined profile by selecting the video size, image quality, audio quality and channels on the right-side pane and then saving it as a new profile.

ImToo DVD Ripper Platinum features a nice interface with a skins menu that unfortunately it's empty, so you can't really change or customize it in any way.

ImToo DVD Ripper Platinum is an attractive DVD ripper, especially designed for portable devices, which makes the whole ripping process easy even for a newcomer to video conversion.

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ImTOO Ripper Pack Platinum is a handy pack of utilities to rip, encode and make the most out of your CD and DVD collection.

The pack consists of super ripping and converting tools, namely ImTOO DVD Ripper Platinum, ImTOO DVD Creator, ImTOO MPEG Encoder, ImTOO Audio Encoder and ImTOO CD Ripper. When installing the suite, you can select which ones you want to have on your system and which ones should be left out. However I missed having some kind of common launcher to access them all.

Some of the tools included in the pack seem to be quite easy to use, while some others look a bit more technical and require a bit of knowledge. In any case, whether you need to encode a file, rip a CD or convert audio from one format to another, you'll find the tool you're looking for.

ImTOO Ripper Pack Platinum includes a collection of five ripping and encoding tools, both for audio and video.

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Magic DVD Ripper is a very easy and powerful DVD ripping software, which can convert DVD to VCD, SVCD and AVI(DivX) formats or backup DVD to hard drive without any loss of quality. You can then enjoy them anytime without DVD discs, or burn them to blank DVD or CD discs using burning software.

Compared with competitors, Magic DVD Ripper has both convert function and backup function, and faster ripping speed. And other software may give you unsync audio/video, but this software always works perfectly.

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A few years ago the task of ripping a DVD movie to your hard drive was so complicated that not everyone could do it. Nowadays it can get as easier as cicking on a button, which is just the way BitRipper works.

This tool is probably the easiest way to rip your favorite movies to your hard drive, provided they're not protected discs. Simply insert the disc into the DVD player, launch BitRipper and it'll automatically scan its contents and add them to a drop-down menu so that you can select exactly the sections you want to rip, if not the whole disc. Then just click on the "Start ripping" button and you're done! The DVD movie will start to be ripped to your hard drive on the fly, that is, without needing loads of space in your system.

This is probably the best method for average users, but if you prefer to be in control of everything when ripping a movie, you can also customize the program's settings by selecting codec (though only those which work with AVI files), aspect ratio, resolution and other technical details.

BitRipper is probably the easiest way to rip DVD movies to your hard drive, as long as it's not protected material.

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AoA DVD Ripper promises to provide a fast and easy way to copy your DVD movies onto your hard drive, or just the parts of the movie that you want. It copies in high quality AVI (DivX, XviD, etc.), VCD (MPEG-1) and SVCD (MPEG-2) formats. It also extracts audio from DVD movies.

Settings within the program include:

• Specify different output format for each task
• Rename output movie title
• Remove unwanted subtitles and audio tracks
• Make the output size fit in a 74-Minute/80-Minute CD
• Play back while ripping, so that you can see which part is being processed
• Set audio quality, volume and Dolby surround effects
• Disable audio
• Automatically shut down the computer when done

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With multimedia portable devices growing in popularity and features, it's not surprising that DVD ripping tools have started to offer support for them so that you can take your favorite movies anywhere with you.

Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum is one of those applications: a full featured DVD ripper than can extract all data inside your DVD movies and convert it right away to another video format, including the most popular ones and – of course – video formats for mobile devices such as the iPod, the iPhone and the PSP.

The program lets you choose the video size, image quality and audio quality, and also create and use different profiles according to the target format or device, though I must say the profile creation process is not very intuitive. In addition to ripping the whole DVD, you can also select specific chapters and convert only those. The whole process is done via drop-down menus and the program is generally very easy to use.

With Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum you can rip the contents of your favorite DVD movies and convert them to different formats – including mobile video - in just a few easy steps.

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With multimedia portable devices growing in popularity and features, it's not surprising that DVD ripping tools have started to offer support for them so that you can take your favorite movies anywhere with you.

Xilisoft DVD to 3GP Converter is one of those applications: a full featured DVD ripper than has been especially developed to extract all data inside your DVD movies and convert it right away to the most popular video formats for portable devices such as mobile phones, Blackberry, iPod, iPhone and PSP.

The program lets you choose the video size, image quality and audio quality, and also create and use different profiles according to the target format or device. In addition to ripping the whole DVD, you can also select specific chapters and convert only those. The whole process is done via drop-down menus and the program is generally very easy to use.

With Xilisoft DVD to 3GP Converter you can rip the contents of your favorite DVD movies and convert them to mobile video in just a few easy steps.

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Magic DVD Copier is a very easy and powerful DVD copy software, which can copy any DVD movie to blank DVD or hard drive without any loss of quality, or compress a DVD9 movie to fit on a 4.7 GB DVD. You need only insert your DVD movie and a blank DVD then press Go, everything will happen automatically and complete within 20-60 minutes.

Features:

• Copy DVD movie to blank DVD in 1:1 mode
• Compress a DVD9 movie to a 4.7 GB blank DVD
• Split a DVD9 movie to two 4.7 GB blank DVDs without any loss of quality
• Copy main movie only
• Copy DVD movie to hard drive and burn DVD movie from hard drive
• Remove all the restrictions of DVD (CSS, Region, RCE, Sony ARccOS, PuppetLock)
• High speed, copy a full DVD disc in 1:1 mode within 20-40 minutes
• Very easy to use, just by one click
• Support almost all DVD Writers and blank DVDs (DVD-R,DVD-RW,DVD+R,DVD+RW,DVD+R DL,DVD-R DL)

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Apollo DVD Copy is a powerful tool to copy your DVD collection to DVD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW. With built-in DVD burning engine and DVD video compression engine you will get true DVD copies of your DVD collection within 20-40 minutes without any loss of quality. You get completely the same as the DVD movie you bought that can be playback on both PC&Home DVD player.

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Wise DVD Creator can create and burn DVD/VCD/SVCD from your digital video recorder, Webcam, or downloaded AVI/Mpeg/Rm/Mov/Xvid/Wmv/Asf/DivX file. With its easy-to-use interface you will soon be able to transfer all those space hogging files to DVD and watch them through your regular DVD player.

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DVD Audio Extractor is a powerful software DVD audio extracting / ripping tool. It can help you to extract audio streams from your favorite DVDs and save them as OGG, MP3 or Wave files. DVD Audio Extractor can also demux audio streams directly to PCM, MPA, AC3 or DTS files.

DVD Audio Extractor features on its easy-to-use interface, ultra-fast extracting speed, rich audio formats support, multi-channel capability, resample to arbitrary sample rate, audio preview and much more. It's all what you needed to get audios out of DVD-Video discs, so that you can listen on MP3 Player, play on PC, record to CD or do anything else.

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You probably have lots of different videos and films on your computer you would like to play on your home DVD player. Unfortunately, many DVD players can only read the standard DVD format and it's therefore a waste of resources to burn DVDs with avi, mpeg or wmv files.

DVD Flick comes in handy because it converts PC video files to a proper DVD format, readable by all standard devices. The final file size is much bigger than the original, for example: a 600mb requires a whole DVD. The conversion process is also very slow, but you can leave the program working while you use other applications, as you can select the priority your system gives to the conversion software. The final result will be an audio_ts and a video_ts folder, which is the standard for all DVDs and you can also chose to create an iso file which can be burned again at a later date. It would have been good to have the possibility to add subtitles but unfortunately this feature is missing.

If you are patient enough, DVD Flick is the perfect solution for burning your holiday movie to DVD, meaning that whatever DVD player your friends or family have, they’ll have no escape from your not-quite-Oscar-winning production.

This is a reliable program that does what it's meant to but at the end of the day, DVD Flick is really only going to be useful to people without a multi-format DVD player.

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