How to Digitize Your DVD Collection?

DVD Digitization era is coming

Once, People enjoyed DVD movies by playing DVD disks on cumbersome disk players. Collecting DVD disks became an interest and trend. However, physical collections brought many burdensome problems. Nowhere to store a number of DVD disks and managing DVD disks became difficult. DVD Digitization solved the problems. Nowadays, People seldom use specified DVD players to enjoy DVD movies, instead, digitize DVD and enjoy it on a variety of broadcast equipment/editing software/storage devices. Actually, It’s time for DVD Digitization era.

DVD Digitization Brings Convenience to Our Life

DVD digitization has brought Home Theater into every families. No matter when and where that people can watch DVD movies, even in the plane or out of the DVD copyright protection area. Area code restrictions has been broken. People don't have to carry a large number of discs and disc players to meet the needs of enjoying movies. You will never worry about scratched DVD disks and influence the information inside DVD disks. DVD disks can be frisbees for pet dogs. Digitizing DVD brings a lot of convenience to people's life. Then, How to achieve the best effect of DVD digitization?

A best DVD Ripper/Copy for digitizing DVD Collection

A DVD Ripper/Copy can make you enjoy the DVD digitization experience. The DVD Ripper as a factory that DVD disks come into it then new file formats come out. You can choose the best suitable file format according to your devices. For example, if you wanna play DVD movies on iPad or smart TV, H.264.mp4 format is suitable. If you wanna watch 3D DVD movies on VR handset, Side-by-side 3D format is nice to choose. For movie production fans, videos from DVD should become Apple ProRes.mov format or MPEG-2.mpg format to support Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere. DVD videos also can be used for business or sharing online, matching DVD formats can bring best DVD digitization enjoyment and profit for you.

Best DVD Ripper can bring best DVD digitization experience. Then which DVD Ripper can be the best one? Through testing investigation, the best DVD Ripper should achieve the following criteria:

• Strong ability of crack - It should have ability to rip DVD including Copyright protected DVD. Extra ripper protected Blu-ray is plus.
• Efficient crack - It has to rip DVD with less time to improve the work efficiency. And make people spend less time on ripper and more time on editing or watching.
• Easy-to-use - It should have a friendly UI that both professionals and amateurs can easy to grasp the operating quickly.
• Rich output video formats - It must have rich out formats to support your devices in particular the current equipment like portable mobile devices, VR headsets, Smart TV and so on. Then users don’t need to buy more rippers to meet their different output needs.
• Rich output audio formats - Not only for video, audio formats are also necessary. People can export audio separately for some special guys.
• Preset formats - It should have preset formats that people can reduce time to make a choice in multiple formats. Of course, present formats should be increased with new player/editing software/storage devices appearing.
• Multiple audio tracks - Support to Multi-track export and be Convenient for editing of video/audio sound track.
• Built-in editing features - Before editing professionally, the DVD ripper should help users do some simple editing work.
• Extract SRT subtitle - Extract SRT subtitle and choose one you can understand.
• Nice after-sales service - Enhance the value of the DVD Ripper product with good after-sales service. Such as 24h customer service online or by calling.
• On time to upgrade - To support new devices or new file formats, DVD Rippers should upgrade every once in a while.
• High cost performance - Good product with appropriate price will be more easily accepted by most people.

Best Free DVD Ripper/Copy for Digitizing your DVD Collection

1. Free DVDAid (for Windows or Mac)

A DVD Ripper that 100% free and easy way to digitize your DVD for personal using. Users have free opportunities to rip, backup, encode DVD movies to almost any video and audio formats to watch on mobile portable devices, smart TV, media players .etc. In addition, Free DVDAid has a part of editing functions. You can do some DVD editing work before you watch it. Such as cutting the black border of DVD movies to enjoy best experience. After all, because of free using, it is limited for some output video format like most popular mp4 format.

2. Free Video/DVD Converter Ultimate (for Windows)

An all-in-one DVD Ripper that can digitize DVD. It has the same functions as Free DVDAid except supporting Video input. 

3. Handbrake (for Windows | Mac | Linux)

Handbrake can digitize any DVD sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection. And the output format is limit for MP4(M4V) and MKV. The UI is really clutter. Beginner maybe cannot use it smoothly at the first time. It does not supports batch conversion yet. And no video previewing function will make some mistake before digitizing DVD.

4. BDMagic (for Windows or Mac)

With Pavtube BDMagic, now you can digitize DVD to other formats or even create 3D videos with excellent video/audio quality in fast conversion speed. You can make a duplicate copy for your DVD movie collection, or share DVD movies on numbers of popular media players. It has two options that free trial and paid using.

5.Pavtube ByteCopy (for Windows or Mac)

ByteCopy is the tiger of Blu-ray/DVD zoo. Other DVD Rippers are shade in front of it. ByteCopy has ability of backing up DVD to multi-track format without quality loss, digitizing DVD movies with multiple audio streams, and converting DVD from hard discs to virtually any popular video and audio format so that you can freely watch DVD movies on media players, smart TVs, mobile devices and more devices or storage DVD movies on Streaming Boxes or share online. In addition to watch DVD movies, edit DVD files become easy by ByteCopy.

It is easy to use. Cool main interface shows all action buttons. You can digitize DVD to many different formats to support different players or editing software. It has many default formats for a variety of devices that you will reduce time to choose export formats.
By the way,the best DVD Ripper for Digitizing your DVD collection should also work for Blu-ray, support rip and encode Blu-ray movie to support ordinary players rather than expensive Blu-ray players.
Plus, It has "Setting" function that users can modify the parameter including video size (pix), bitrate (kbps), frame rate (fps), sample rate (hz) channels and so on. Professional DVD editors will love it.

• See also ByteCopy Review

Toe-to-Toe Compare 5 Free using or trial DVD Rippers for Digitizing DVD

DVD Converters Compares	Free DVDAid	Free Video DVD Converter Ultimate	Handbrake	BDMagic	ByteCopy/ ByteCopy for Mac
Standard
Ability of crack	☆☆☆☆	☆☆☆☆	☆☆☆	☆☆☆☆☆	☆☆☆☆☆
Speed of crack	☆☆☆☆	☆☆☆☆	☆☆☆	☆☆☆☆☆	☆☆☆☆☆
Easy-to-use (friendly UI)	☆☆☆☆☆	☆☆☆☆☆	☆	☆☆☆☆☆	☆☆☆☆☆
Rich output formats	☆☆☆	☆☆☆	☆☆	☆☆☆☆☆	☆☆☆☆☆
Preset formats	☆☆☆	☆☆☆	☆☆	☆☆☆☆☆	☆☆☆☆☆
Buit-in editing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multi-track	No	No	No	No	Yes
Nice after-sale service (Telephone and web site customer service consultation)	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
On time to upgrade	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Price	free	free	free	Free Trial $34.3(limit)	Free Trial $42
Discount	-	-	-	Yes	Yes
Details
Supported Input Files	DVD	Video, DVD	DVD, Blu-ray	DVD, Blu-ray	DVD, Blu-ray
Remove DVD Copy Protection	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Full Disc Copy DVD	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Directly Main Title Copy DVD	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Trim/Crop/Split/Merge	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Add subtitle/watermark	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Extract SRT subtitle	No	No	No	No	Yes
Bath conversion	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Preview video	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Supported Output Files
Apple Prores	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
.mov .wmv .avi .3gp . flv	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
H.265/HEVC	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
M3U8	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Lossless/ uncompressed MKV	No	No	No	No	Yes
Encoded MP4/MOV/ AVI with multi-track subtitle/ audio	No	No	No	No	Yes

As ByteCopy for example, How to Digitize your DVD?

Step 1. Launch Pavtube ByteCopy, and load the DVD source.

Double click Pavtube ByteCopy, and then insert the DVD into the computer cd-rom before digitizing, then navigate it through the “File” buttons on the main UI. When it comes to be an ISO file or a folder, you can simply drag and drop it into the main UI for loading.

 

Step 2. Choose one profile, and customize the output video for DVD movies

Move to the lower left corner of main UI and click the “Format” to opt the output format you need after DVD source loading. Then, select the audio tracks and subtitles you want to keep in the output video. For example, mp4. is the popular format for most HD devices. Apple ProRes is most suitable for Final Cut Pro. AIC.mov is iMovie’s favorite format, etc.
 

Step 3. Start to digitize DVD

Click the “Convert” button, Pavtube ByteCopy will immediately begin ripping/decode/convert DVD while providing you with the progress info during the process. You can cancel the task anytime you don't want to continue during the process, and you can also set your PC to automatically shut down or do nothing when the task is done. After converting, you can easy to find DVD files by click “Open output folder”.

( Tips: To cover your higher needs, before digitizing, you can set all the video and audio parameters regarding the output video at the “Settings” button, and deeply customize the output video with the built-in video editor.)

Conclusion: You can choose one according your needs. Based on analysis, I recommend Pavtube BetyCopy. After using Pavtube BetyCopy to handle DVD disk, you can easy to digitize DVD. Put the DVD disk into your storage boxes and handle or watch DVD movies on other devices. Even DVD disks are damaged, you still have the inside information. Store DVD movie in the cloud storage so that you can easily watch a movie without the disks, and even watch on the plane. Solve DVD problems and enjoy the DVD digital era.

Just free download this best DVD Ripper/Copy for digitizing your DVD Collection - BetyCopy for trying and enjoy the DVD digital era! If you like it. Pay no more than $42 to get VIP service - Free upgrades for life. Sales promotion activities are hidden in every festivals. Focus on Pavtube website or facebook website to get more discount information. Have a good day.

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Popular DVD Ripping/Copying FAQs

Ripping DVD videos is never as straightforward as you thought, especially for starters. But never mind, there are always some guides that can instruct you to get DVD backups or MP4/MKV extracts. To save your time to searching for the DVD ripping/copying tips, here we have gathered around some top and effective tutorial on DVD backing up. Hope you can find what you want in the corresponding categories.

DVD Encryption

There are four types of copy protection that are used on commercial pre-recorded DVD discs. These are Analog Protection System (APS) scrambling, Content Scramble System (CSS) encryption, Region codes and a system involving corrupted disc structure. Recordable DVD discs are also sometimes copy protected using Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM) encryption. We will go over each of these schemes in turn

Analog Protection System (Macrovision)

The Analog Protection System, popularly known as Macrovision after the company that developed it, is a protection system that is applied to the composite analog video signal coming out of DVD players. By manipulating the signal level of the composite video, Macrovision fools the automatic gain control of most video recorders resulting in annoying shifts in color and brightness in the recorded video.

Macrovision can be defeated by passing the composite video signal through a hardware device that restores the proper video signal levels. With the demise of analog video and the widespread availability of digital decryption tools, Macrovision protection has largely become irrelevant. Macrovision Corporation renamed itself Rovi and now promotes other copy protection technologies.

Content Scramble System (CSS) Encryption

CSS is an encryption system that is the main copy protection scheme used on pre-recorded DVD discs. CSS utilizes a proprietary 40-bit cipher that is used to encrypt the data stored on the DVD disc. When the disc is inserted into a player or computer, a series of "authentication" handshake key exchanges occur between the DVD drive and the player software. At the end of the "authentication" process, the drive allows access to the encrypted DVD data and the player can use the key it has obtained to decrypt the DVD data and play the disc.

Many DVD drives have a tendency to completely lock out access to an encrypted disc until the drive has been "authenticated". In addition, many DVD drives will refuse to complete the "authentication" process and provide a decryption key if the disc and drive are not from the same region. Both of these situations can cause strange behavior and odd error messages on computer systems.

DVD Disc Corruption

After the CSS protection system was cracked, the movie industry looked for a alternative copy protection scheme that would be compatible with the large number of existing DVD players in the marketplace.

Borrowing a (failed) technique from the video game industry, they settled on a scheme in which portions of DVD discs are deliberately mangled in such a way as to render them unreadable. When the disc is played, these corrupted areas of the disc are skipped. When the disc is copied sequentially, however, these corrupted areas cause the drive to hang up and get stuck.

This copy protection scheme has been marketed under a variety of names, including ARccOS (by Sony), RipGuard (by Rovi), Disney X (by Disney), etc. For cost and convenience reasons, it is not applied to all commercial DVD releases.

DVD disc corruption is a nuisance, but most of the more sophisticated DVD copy tools can handle it. Some tools maintain a database of corrupted areas on DVD discs that contain corruption, while other tools attempt to analyze the DVD structure to find areas of the disc that are never accessed.

Region codes

Almost all commercial DVDs that are sold have region code, which only allows the DVD to be played on DVD players that have this region code, and the only DVD players that typically do have this region code are those sold in that same region. Following is a color-coded region map for DVDs:

When you want to play DVD of region 1,2,3 on your DVD player freely or on your region-locked PS3/PS4/Xbox One/360, you can refer to the following guides:

• Watch Region Locked Blu-ray/DVD to PS3/PS4
• How To Play Region Code 1 And 2 DVD Without Changing DVD Region Codes?

DVD Ripping/Copying Tools

There are many DVD Ripper/Copier software floating over there. Popular DVD ripping tools include MakeMKV and DVDFab DVD Copy. The gold standard decryption tool is, however, the on-the-fly tool Pavtube ByteCopy and Pavtube BDMagic. You can read their comparison article MakeMKV vs ByteCopy vs DVDfab or look at their difference in the chart below.

DVD Backup Tips

To manage DVD movies conveniently and protect DVD discs from scratching, people usually backup DVD discs to digital version. There are too many choices you can choose to store your DVD backups, like NAS, Media Server, Cloud Storage, External Hard Drive, USB Stick, etc. Different choices lead to different results. For example, when you migrate DVD to Clous NAS devices, you can play DVD movies on any DLNA-enabled devices freely while you put DVD backups to external HDD, you can carry your DVD movies anywhere as you want. Choose the guide you want below:

• Rip/Backup Blu-Ray/DVD To FreeNAS Home Server

• Backup Blu-Ray/DVD Movies To NAS To Free Space At Home
• Rip Blu -Ray/DVD To QNAP NAS For JRiver Media Center
• Put Blu-ray to QNAP HS251 NAS for TV playback

• Copy Blu-ray and DVD movies to Plex Media Server for streaming

• How to upload over 500 DVDs to Seagate Wireless Plus

DVD Audio Extracting

Sometimes, you love the background music in the DVD movies. When you can't find the audio online, what can you do is to extract the audio from your DVD discs. If you don't know how to do it, just visit the guides below:

• Best Software To Extract DVD Audio To Laptop
• How To Extract WAV Tracks To FLAC From Blu-Ray/DVD Audio Discs?
• How To Extract Audio/Music From DVD Easily?
• Extract Audio from DVD- Convert DVD to AC3 5.1 Audio files

DVD Subtitle Issues

Have you got chagrined when you can't understand the plot for the foreign language? Do you have the need of extracting the subtitle from your favorite DVD, BDMV folder, M2TS files and ISO images? Or maybe you want your movies to displaying the subtitle only when the actor saying a foreign languages?

• Easy Solution to Extract Blu-ray DVD SRT
• Rip DVD with Forced Subtitle
• How to Rip DVD with Preferred Subtitles
• Download and Add Subtitles to DVD Movies and TV Shows

DVD Lossless/Multi-track Ripping

When you want to lossless backup DVD, it means you don't want any video quality loss in the DVD copying. Multi-track backing up DVD can make you keep multiple subtitle streaming and audio tracks so that you can switch the sound channel as you need.

• Convert DVD To Multi-track MP4
• Rip DVD in multiple languages into a single file
• Convert DVD ISO to lossless mkv for Plex with multi audio tracks

• Convert DVD to multi-track MP4, MKV, AVI and MOV on Mac

DVD to Media Player

Except DVD Player, even powerful as VLC can't play DVD movies directly. So when you want to play DVD movies on various media player and portable devices such as Windows Media Player,QuickTime, etc, you need to rip DVD to digital file.

• How to play an original DVD VOB File in VLC?
• Play DVD TV Series on PC
• How to Rip and Convert DVD to QuickTime MOV on Mac with lossless quality?

DVD to Devices

When you want to stream DVD on TV, PS3, PS4, Xbox One without using DVD Player, you also can choose to copy DVD to NAS, USB HDD, Home Server for TV DVD streaming.Thus,since your portable devices don't have one DVD player so create a digital copy of DVD can ave you view DVD movies on your iPad, Galaxy phone/tablet, etc.

• play DVD movies on Moto X Pure Edition
• Put Blu-ray/DVD to Asus ZenPad 8.0 2
• Can You Play Blu-ray/DVD on Google Nexus 6P?
• Put DVD on Galaxy Tab A 10.1 for Playing
• How to Rip DVD/Blu-ray for Playback with iPad Air 2

DVD to Video Editor

Through DVD ripping, you can edit your DVD movies or a fragment on some popular video editor software.

• Getting a DVD into Windows Movie Maker For Editing
• Ripping a DVD for Final Cut Pro X Editing Further
• DVD to iMovie - Encode and Import DVD to iMovie 

DVD Ripper Software Comparison

Below is a chart to give you an intuitionistic exhibition on the difference between some top DVD Ripping software.

 

Software Compare	Pavtube ByteCopy	Pavtube BDMagic	DVDfab DVD Ripper	MakeMKV
Input Support
DVD Disc	Y	Y	Y	Y
DVD Folder	Y	Y	Y	Y
DVD ISO	Y	Y	Y	Y
DVD Ripping Function
Decrypt the Encryption	Y	Y	Y	Y
Full Copy DVD	Y	Y	Y	N
Directly Copy DVD	Y	Y	Y	N
SD/HD MP4/AVI/WMV Output	Y	Y	Y	N
DVD to Multi-track MP4/MOV/AVI	Y	N	N	N
DVD to Lossless MKV	Y	N	N	Y
Forced Subtitle Preserving	Y	Y	Y	N
GPU Acceleration	Y	Y	Y	N
2D-3D/3D-2D	Y	Y	Y	N
Customize Output Video	Y	Y	Y	N

Verdict:

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