Best program for ripping DVDS? (Adult content - entirely legal)

The best program would arguably be the one that leaves you with the most options for your ripped DVD once it is off the disc. In that case, I would suggest a program called DVD Decrypter for getting the movie off the disc, decrypted, and onto your hard drive. This is a free program, but unfortunately the author stopped maintaining it a while ago after pressure from the DVD people, so search around on the web and I'm sure you'll find it.

Once the DVD is ripped to your hard drive, you can use many programs to compress the content (eg so it fits on a recordable DVD in case it was originally too large). My favourite program to do this is called DVD2One. Other people here may have their favourites.

Some people like using all-in-one programs to rip, resize, and reburn the DVD, but honestly a procedure like described above (and those great programs) will give you the most options and the best chance for a movie that doesn't look horrible, as well as having more input into the ripping and re-encoding process. There are even more technical tools you can use to mess with the movies, but doing it this way should be easy enough for you.

DVD movies are technically stored in MPEG2 format, but it sounds like that isn't what you mean. Can you clarify?

We use videocharge, seems to work well for 90% of the dvds.

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Outputs to any format... really handy.

well the VOB files are essentially MPG file formats. if you want to burn to a dvd you can use dvd shrink from there.

well you can use dvd decrypter if DVD is protected

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