Thursday, June 30, 2011

Episodic DVDs - Use WinX DVD Ripper Platinum

I know it has been a while since I last posted, but I haven't run into anything new in a while to cause me to post something worthwhile.

That said, a few months back I had to rebuild my PC and lost my installation of WinX DVD Ripper Platinum. Fortunately, I was only dealing with Blu-Ray's for a good length of time, so I wasn't really feeling the pain of that loss.

But THEN I decided I wanted to rip my copy of School House Rock DVD's, and do it in such a way that each of the ~3minute songs were each their own individual movie files, so that I could access them randomly through my Media Center extender.

It was then, I decided I needed WinX DVD Ripper back, and pronto. I love RipBot264, it does a great job of even ripping whole-movie DVD's, but for this purpose, it sucks. For DVD's (at least by default with the UI), RipBot is only going to convert the longest track on the DVD.

On the other hand, doing this with WinX DVD Ripper was a breeze, I just had to select all the little titles in their nice new UI and off I go.

They are now at version 6.8, which is -many- upgrades from when I last used it, so I haven't looked to see if they solved the subtitle problem that I was experiencing before. Next time I need to convert a subtitled DVD, I shall check this.

For now, I am just happy I got all my School House Rock songs available for my 5 year old to listen to!