--- Mark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks... I am new to the group... > I had a friend (Pastor from a church) come to me > last night and asked if I could do a project for > him. > (I was intending on using Premier). > He had a DVD from his church event and I needed to > pull in into AP. > I started looking at rippers... but had no clue > what was the best.
If it's not a commercially produced DVD with CSS (Content Scrambling System), you don't need a ripper. You can just copy the contents to your hard drive. However, some DVD camcorders and standalone DVD recorders do some funky things with the files. Recorders that use the "VR" format for some reason have all the files listed twice. If you grab all the names and copy them, you end up with 2x the data on your hard drive. That's when a ripper comes in handy. The two I've had experience with are DVD Shrink and SmartRipper. Both are free and both can extract a continous video from DVDs where the VOBs are all chunked up and scrambled (not CSS, but where the program starts at the first VOB then jumps to another then back to the first etc.). Just an FYI. What makes ripping CSS "protected" DVDs so easy is there are only 40 key codes. The DVD Forum (the group of companies that developed the standard) decided that there'd be at most 40 companies producing DVD videos and they'd license one code to each*. But to make the "protection" "secure", every single DVD player and DVD-ROM drive has a chip in it with all 40 codes. (Imagine Coca-Cola printing their secret formula on the inside of every can of Coke...) Since every DVD must play on every player and ROM drive, more codes cannot be added. In recent years they've gone to tricks like using multiple codes on a single disc, changing them on every VOB, somehow so that it works with any player but not with older ripping software. That doesn't bother DVD Shrink, I don't know about SmartRipper- which hasn't been updated in a while. *You'd think these people would learn from lines like "Nobody needs more than 640K." and "In the future, computers will weigh no more than 1.5 tons.". __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
