Is there a person or company that one could safely hire (i.e., safeguards against theft) to rip DVDs they own into digital video files?
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posted by WCityMike
on Oct 3, 2012 -
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CD Ripping - how to break tracks into smaller chunks? itunes or MediaMonkey. I recently got a copy of Stay Awake, a CD of new artists doing covers of old Disney songs, and I want to rip it to my computer. Several tracks are medleys - 3 or 4 songs running into each other as a single track. I know I can rip these individually, and then use a cutting program to make an individual copy of the songs, but is there an easier/automated way?
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posted by RevRob330
on Jul 16, 2012 -
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I need to save a video from the Senate Finance Committee's hearings video library so that I can edit out a small snippet of testimony.
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posted by forkisbetter
on Jul 11, 2012 -
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Can anyone help me with a problem I have with Ripping music to my Ipod/Computer.
I have several CDs that are meant to be gapless Album (IE a continous 80 minute mix) and when I try to rip them to my Ipod, it make a momentary gap appear. So how can I rip these CDs without the Gaps, or how can I rip them to my PC without track markers, so that they are one long mix
Thanks for any advice/Help
posted by maxmix
on Apr 8, 2011 -
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I'm out of the loop on the current state of legal duplication of commercially available movies on DVD. Please help.
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posted by FlamingBore
on Dec 8, 2010 -
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My Dad burned me a DVD of home movies. Is there an easy, free way to extract clips in a common format?
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posted by sidereal
on Aug 30, 2010 -
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I recently bought The Twilight Zone Season 2 box set on DVD. I'm wondering how to turn the set of DVDs into a nice TV show series in iTunes complete with episode titles and other information about each episode. I've tried using Handbrake, but all of the DVD chapters are of the same length and it looks really confusing. I have an iPad and would like it to look like other TV show seasons do that are purchased from the iTunes store. Anything super automated and created for this purpose?
posted by antgly
on Jul 16, 2010 -
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How do I create a single .VOB file for each TV episode from a ripped DVD in Snow Leopard, when it looks like the episodes span multiple .VOBs?
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posted by DakotaPaul
on Jun 18, 2010 -
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Is there an ripping/converting application that will automate naming and labeling of TV episodes copied from DVD?
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posted by sun-el
on Oct 30, 2009 -
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High fidelity DVD ripping: collecting short videos from separate DVDs without losing any quality
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posted by sloe
on Aug 25, 2009 -
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Using Handbrake, is there a way to put subtitles onto DVD when they are interspersed in the real movie? Example: the movie Defiance had some English subtitles when characters spoke Russian/German. These didn't come through when I made my first trial run disc. So basically I'm asking for situational subtitles if I can call them that and not the full movie-lenght subtitle added throughout the whole movie. Thanks for your input.
posted by snap_dragon
on Jul 7, 2009 -
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I can rip movies to Xvid using Handbrake and it is all good....it rips the movie but no special features which is fine....But lately, when I tried John Adams (miniseries) or the TV show the 4400, it only took one chunk out of the whole disc and ignored the other episodes. Is there a way around this so I can get all the episodes even if they are lumped into one .avi file? (I really don't mind all the fast-forwarding). Thanks...and to all of those reading/responding...have a great weekend.
posted by snap_dragon
on Mar 13, 2009 -
7 answers
Why can my mac (macbook pro) not rip audiobook CDs without skipping near the end?
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posted by arniec
on Feb 17, 2009 -
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I need a program for ripping DVDs to get past the encoding (I think that's the term). I've got most of them covered by my DVD Ripper, but I'm having some trouble on a few.
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posted by Deflagro
on Jan 1, 2009 -
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I using Mac the Ripper than Handbrake to turn DVDs into mp4 files. (I use DVD dual layer)...When I use Roxio Popcorn, I can fit several movies on a disc (4) but it takes honestly a day and a half to burn on DVD !!!! But the DVD plays perfectly in my cheap player. Trying a different route, I tried dragging the mp4s to a blank DVD disc and then clicking "Burn" -- it burns and takes only 30-40 minutes but this version will not play on my DVD player. Anybody out there have an idea what I can do to make the process more efficient? Different software or different method? I appreciate your insight. By the way, I am running Mac OX X 10.5.5.
posted by snap_dragon
on Nov 15, 2008 -
13 answers
How do I create my own CDs from existing CD tracks, without losing quality on OS X? It seems iTunes will let me rip to WAV but will it then burn back to CD in the same quality? I don't want to go through any encoding/decoding stage.
posted by deeper red
on Apr 20, 2008 -
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I need a way to rip DVDs to a hard drive whilst maintaining menu structure and picture quality, but also compressing the data. Something like the DVD-like features offered by
DivX Author but with an automated front end to convert DVD menus to DivX menus
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posted by leakymem
on Mar 26, 2008 -
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Please explain to me what a cue, m3u, and log file are in layman's terms. (In regards to audio files.)
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posted by hazyspring
on Dec 20, 2007 -
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When ripping some DVDs to my hard drive, why do the sound and video get out of synch?
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posted by psmealey
on Aug 31, 2007 -
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I'd like to rip my CD collection and be able to listen to them when I'm not at my computer. I want to be able to listen to them in the living room or kitchen. I've got several hundred CDs. And I don't want to spend a ton of money.
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posted by GernBlandston
on May 23, 2007 -
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What's the easiest, cheapest, quickest way to move content from a DVD to individual files on a hard drive?
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posted by jbickers
on Mar 13, 2007 -
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I want to make sure that the next time I rip my CD collection is the last time. What should I know?
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posted by reventlov
on Dec 29, 2006 -
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Can you split an .iso (DVD burn image) file in two? I've been ripping all of my Netflix movies into .iso files before realizing that my burning software (Nero burning rom) doesn't split an image file (.iso) that is larger than 4.7gig into two smaller files. All of these movies require dual layer blank DVDs, but since I have a 100 pack of blank DVDs I would like to try to see if I could split the movies to 2 different discs rather than buy the larger blanks.
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posted by wile e
on Dec 13, 2006 -
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DVD Rip Filter: I want to rip several movie clips of a DVD and convert them into separate mpeg files. Please help me out.
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posted by IZ
on Nov 10, 2006 -
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For some reason, when I try to rip/import anything off a CD, all the audio on my laptop slows down to a choppy crawl.
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posted by Ash3000
on Oct 23, 2006 -
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Please recommend the easiest-to-use DVD ripping/burning software for Windows....
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posted by gnutron
on Sep 26, 2006 -
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I want to rip a bunch of old vinyl LPs. I have a nice Dual turntable which I got off eBay, and a couple of USB audio interfaces (an M-Audio Audiophile USB and an Emagic A26) which plug into a G4 Powerbook. I have Logic and Garageband. Do I need anything else? How do I go about applying the RIAA curve given my set-up? Would I be better off getting a real pre-amp? What are the cheapest options?
posted by unSane
on Mar 7, 2006 -
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Why do some PC game CDs and DVDs play and install just fine on my machine, but absolutely refuse to be backed up? I'm not entirely sure it's due to actual copy protection schemes.
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posted by cyrusdogstar
on Dec 30, 2005 -
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I'm currently listening to track 09. It's good. how do I find out name of the artist? I'm asking a general question here, I have a dozen track 09s. When I pop a CD into iTunes it gets it's info for me online. Is there any way to do that for individual tracks? Since it's digital isn't there a way to do a look up?
posted by Mr T
on Nov 20, 2005 -
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I have a large collection of bootlegs I'd like to rip to my computer, but I don't want to manually rename all the files.
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posted by apple scruff
on Jun 3, 2005 -
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I've never had great results ripping vinyl. I still have my 1980 vintage Pioneer turntable, and a receiver that has phono inputs, but the files never sound that good, and noise filtering didn't do much.
Also, I really only need to rip about 3-4 albums. While I'm sure the gods of karma will arrange for some to finally be released on CD or iTunes just after I go to the hassle of copying, I'm also sure 2 will never be "officially" released.
Anyone have a vinyl ripping service they would recommend?
posted by Marky
on Mar 12, 2005 -
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We were rearranging the shelves in my house today, and we found a bunch of old tapes from my
Dad's friends from when he lived in Spain (he was born there, as was I). His friends mixed
a bunch of bands together to make this very cool-sounding tape, and the thought struck me: Why not
rip this? (edit: also found bunch of old tapes my brother made of a punk radio station. woot!)
Of course, I lack the knowledge required.
So my question essentially is: what sort of process, programs, and materials is one required to
go through to convert these tapes to mp3? Would the machine I'd have to buy also double as a
tape-pl-ayer itself? What about records? I've been wanting a record player for a while, and I've
been wanting to rip some records as well. Are there record-rippers which double as players? Are
there record/tape player/rippers all combined into one machine? How complicated is this process?
How expensive does it have to be? I don't want to end up with really badly ripped files, but I
don't want studio equipment, either. Basically, what do I have to go through to get good
sounding, 192-320 kbps mp3s from my tapes and records that I could then distribute via
BitTorrent? Thanks.
posted by Lockeownzj00
on Feb 12, 2005 -
17 answers
What's your experience with burning "on the fly" DVDs using dual layer media? Does it create a lot of coasters? Do stand alone DVD players play burned dual layer media well?
posted by skallas
on Dec 11, 2004 -
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Let's say I want store DVDs on my hard drive, and access them. I don't need the extras, just the movies/tv shows that are on there. Is there a piece of media access hardware that will (1) pull from ISOs of DVDs on another computer networked, or (2) allow me to stream video I rip from a DVD, and what software would I use to rip said DVD to a usable file. All legal DVDs and all that.
posted by benjh
on Dec 9, 2004 -
11 answers
