DVD Ripping with DVD Shrink

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After you've selected all of the items you want click on backup.You'll then see the box pictured on the right.

I would suggest to rip it directly to the image recorder which will make an ISO that you can then burn or play using something like daemon tools to mount a virtual DVD drive.

The ripping process can potentially take an hour sometimes more under some circumstances.

I've heard from many people that the Lite-on XJ-HD166 drive is the fastest at this kind of thing. I haven't confirmed this myself but it's $31 at newegg so it can't really hurt! Extracting digital content speeds vary greatly between manufacturers so make sure you avoid the off brands if you plan on doing alot of this kind of thing.

That'll be all you need to do. Open the image in your DVD burning app and burn. You now have a working region free DVD. Stay tuned for my Xvid encoding article if this isn't quite for you.

If you don't have a DVD burner then you can use Daemon tools. After you install and start this program it will automatically mount a virtual drive.

--> Right click on the daemon tools icon (the red thing)
--> Put your mouse on Virtual CD/DVD
--> Put your mouse on Device 0
--> Click mount Image
--> Browse to where the image is

Then Autoplay should kick in and your default DVD player will load. If you did everything right then your DVD should be playing! You now have a DVD playing from your hard drive and taking up only 4.36Gb of data and could also be burned in nero.

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