Why You Need to Rip DVD?
Besides watching movies on TV with DVD player, sometimes you may also want to enjoy the films with your portable devices like iPod, iPad, PSP, or PC players; sometimes you may want to back up a special disc; sometimes you want to upload your DVD disc content to YouTube but just find only FLV files are accepted...At this moment, you do need to rip DVD to video in common formats. And on the other hand, DVD discs takes some space while ripping DVD to videos to store the movies on PC will save your space. Needless to say, backing up DVD disc and making DVD copy are necessary to ensure never losing those important data.
What Formats Does DVD Ripper Support
Rip to Video |
AVI(XviD/DivX), MP4, MPEG, MPG, WMV, MKV, MOV, 3GP, FLV, SWF, VCD, SVCD |
Rip to Audio |
MP3, M4A |
Devices Supported |
iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Sony PSP, Sony Walkman, Sony PS3, Microsoft Zune, Xbox 360, Google Android, Google Nexus One, Nokia N-series, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile Phone, Dell Axim 51, HP iPAQ, Palm Treo, HTC Touch Diamond, Wii, Creative Zen, iRiver, Archos, Sandisk Sansa, etc. |
Step by Step Guide: Rip DVD to Video
This guide will tell you exactly how to rip and convert DVD to video in desired format, like ripping DVD to AVI, step by step. Everything is so clear on the interface and you will easily find a clue to finish the whole progress. If you would like to know the ripping details, just follow the guide below. You can free download the trial version of this DVD to video ripping and converting tool. If you want to get the full function, we strongly recommend you to purchase this software.
Note:
- First, it is necessary to install the software, Sothink DVD Ripper
- Secondly, you should have a DVD disc in your driver or DVD folder in your PC
- Last, make sure your PC has enough free space in a hard disk for saving temporary files
Step 1: Add DVD Movie to DVD Ripper
After download and install this ripping software, first launch the program. And click button “Open DVD” on the top tool bar to open a DVD disc in your driver or a DVD folder in your PC. Batch ripping DVD titles is supported.

Tip: There is a window on the bottom of the program for previewing the DVD titles. You can click button “Play” to preview your DVD movie. You may switch between Details mode and Thumbnails mode to view the information about your source video(s).
Step 2: Specify DVD to Video Conversion
After DVD titles are all listed in the program, you may go to General Settings or Advanced Settings panel to specify your conversion. Click the drop down arrow under "Target profile" and select a profile from the list. It lists kinds of ripping DVD to video formats and DVD to multimedia devices conversion pre-sets, which are specified different dimension, bit rate, codec, file size and so on. You may choose any one of them according to your own needs. Here we choose "Sony PS3 DivX AVI Video(*.avi)", which will use DivX codec and the output AVI video will be perfectly played on PS3.

Tip: If you want to customize all the properties by yourself, you may do the settings under profile in General Settings or Advanced Settings panel.
Step 3: Rip DVD to Video
When setting finished, click button "Rip DVD" on the top of tool bar to start DVD to iPhone conversion.
By default, DVD Ripper will jump over the DVD titles shorter than 10 seconds, which usually are some advertisement or other unnecessary clips, and directly rip DVD movie to MP4 video. So you need make sure the checkbox besides the DVD titles you want to convert has been ticked.

After several minutes, the DVD ripping and conversion will be finished. Isn't it easy? Try it now, and you can fastest rip DVD to AVI, MP4, MPEG, 3GP, FLV, MOV, MKV and enjoy your DVD movies on your portable devices or PC players immediately!
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DVD Ripper Reviews
"The highly compressed movie by DVD Converter with excellent picture just takes up 1/5-1/10 of original DVD disc space, and even smaller! You can convert DVD movies with DVD Converter and play the output AVI, MP4, WMV or other formats of videos on your PC, iPad, MP4 Player, Pocket PC, Smartphone and other portable devices at anytime anywhere." -- by Editor
"Rip DVD really fast! No video quality loss. Great software!" -- by Tom
"It's quick to start and options are simple and understandable. There are only minor settings and you wouldn't expect anything else." --by Peter "This is great for a beginner in movie copying, it has simple layout and is very user friendly. Ripped my music video and personal dvd perfectly." --by Richard
"Works like a charm, simple, you don't need to read manual before converting your DVD." --by Rachel
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System Requirements

- Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2007/2008
- 1GHz Intel/AMD processor or above
- 256 MB RAM (512 MB or above recommended)
