News - Ripping CDs and DVDs in the UK to be legalised from 1st June

[LeetyMcLeet]

Finally, common sense prevails. Not that it stopped us in the first place.

[bridges009]

Just in time for the death rattle of physical media, top work.

[Brewster0101]

Great my private collection of CDs, DVDs and Blu rays which I have been ripping for years is now legal.

What do you use for your Blurays? I want to do the same but have failed to find a good program that I can use to rip a Bluray down to 4gb or less. Kinda wont to make them tablet friendly for when the kids are in the car.

[virtuo]

What do you use for your Blurays? I want to do the same but have failed to find a good program that I can use to rip a Bluray down to 4gb or less. Kinda wont to make them tablet friendly for when the kids are in the car.

Encoding anything down to that size you'll definitely want to downscale the video source. If you use handbrake to encode a file at 720p using a CQ of 21-22 you might fall within that size for some videos. For simple tablet viewing, you could probably get away with 480p DivX/mkv files, which won't stress the tablet as much either. You'd get most 120min videos inside 2Gb

[jim]

What do you use for your Blurays? I want to do the same but have failed to find a good program that I can use to rip a Bluray down to 4gb or less. Kinda wont to make them tablet friendly for when the kids are in the car.

You're confusing ripping with compressing. I guess in many pieces of software, they're the same thing, but that's not really the case.

If you were to rip a CD, it would typically comes in as a .wav (uncompressed) file, and then lame would compress it to MP3, or the FLAC encoder would compress it to FLAC.

Were you to rip a video file from a DVD, it would typically come in as a .vob file (IIRC), and you could then compress it however you liked. You could use Xvid, or DivX, or x264. You could do it at 30 fps, 20fps, or 10fps. You could encode it at 1080p, 720p, or 480p. You could encode it at high quality, or low quality. So on, so forth. You can make a video file as small as you want. Obviously by the end, you've got a 1*1 pixel video with one frame, but the point is, with video compression, the right software (e.g. handbrake) should be able to perform what ever you want it to. I've used virtualdub successfully in the past, but that was for more complicated things like splicing videos and re-encoding.

So anyway, if/when it's legal in your territory, that's what I would suggest.

[crossy]

What do you use for your Blurays? I want to do the same but have failed to find a good program that I can use to rip a Bluray down to 4gb or less. Kinda wont to make them tablet friendly for when the kids are in the car.

Slysoft's AnyDVD-HD "frees" Blurays (temporarily disables the protection) then you can use whatever you want. I've not done any BD's - only DVD's - but I've been using either Handbrake or Nero. If memory serves me rightly Nero's recoder has the feature to be able to say that you want a particular size of file and it'll play with the settings accordingly.

Slysoft's CloneDVD might be usable too - but I've had mixed results with that - when it works properly it's great. Other times, it's a hunk o' junk.

By the way, small disclaimer. I am NOT advocating doing any of the above except for my own personal use. No interest in sharing content I've paid good money for with a load of freeloaders.