What is dvd ripping

First of all, what is actually a DVD? It is an optical disc, which is flat, usually circular, and it encodes binary data, in the form of lands and pits, often on a special aluminum material, onto one of its flat surface. It has a storage media format. It was invented in 1995. While having the same dimensions, DVDs have storage capacity quite more than CDs.
In 2006, two new formats were brought about, one was Blue ray disc, and the other was HD DVD. They are the successors to DVD.
The DVD ripper is a software program; it allows a facility to copy the content or contents of a DVD, to a hard disk drive. The very main purpose is to transfer video files on DVDs. They are transferred into different formats. The purpose could well be to backup or to simply edit the DVD content. The purpose could also be to convert the DVD videos for playback on mobile devices and media players. We have discussed Blue ray before, it is an additional feature in some of the DVD rippers. Interestingly some of the DVD rippers include the decryption of the DVDs and the Blue ray disc. Not to mention the format to remove copy protection is there as well and the ability to make the discs region free and unrestricted.

Different features of DVD rippers

• Some DVD rippers not only help in ripping DVD movies but also help convert them to various formats. DVD rippers help convert the DVDs to AVI, WMV, MPEG, DIV X, MP4, MPEG 4, MOV and RM etc.
• For mac users or who use iTunes commonly, the DVD to iTunes Converter can help you turn dvd to itunes easily to make the audio and video available on your mac device as well as iPod, iPhone and iPad.
• Some rippers feature a wide range. Some offer versatile editing tools. These help you extract the portion from the video you prefer and omit the rest out. Leaving you enjoys your favorite segments, or you could rather merge many of them together.
• You can enjoy your own collection, anytime, anywhere.
• Some make the raw copy of the whole disc and help save the whole disc as a file. But this will require space between 4GB-8GB.

The whole process seems pretty clear; it’s clear that you can’t copy the commercial movies and just distribute them out to anyone. You can’t do this with rental video DVDs that you rip them and save the copy for later fun. It’s simply against the Microsoft religion to allow the ripper software to rip commercial DVDs. That’s why it is impossible to do so in Windows Vista.