Hello! Wow, it’s been several years since I’ve been here and I’m glad to see this place still going!
I had no idea where to post this, so I chose the general forum. I hope you’re able to help me, as I have many questions and am not sure what the best equipment would be for the task.
I’m going to be traveling in the near future and want to chill with some friends in our hotel room and watch some movies. The movies I want to bring are on DVD (I don’t have a Blu-Ray drive on my PC, anyway, and SD quality is good enough for this.) I have no idea if the hotel Wi-Fi will be good enough to stream my digital copies I own from various services, and I don’t want to risk there being HDMI copy protection issues somehow from using my iPhone, so I’m wanting to just rip the DVDs, convert them, and place the video files on a card or stick to play on a portable media player of some kind to hook up to the TV.
It’s been years since I’ve ripped a DVD and whatnot, so I apologize for asking so many questions. Here they are:
1. What would be the best software to rip my discs? I don’t think I’d be ripping any recent movies, so I don’t think the protection on them would be too complex. Looking for something secure (to tell you how long it’s been since I’ve ripped anything, I remember people were always paranoid about software phoning home and whatnot. Hahaha.) and easy to use. I think I used to use DVDFab HD Decrypter as the DVD ripping portion was free.
2. What kind of codec would you recommend? Also settings and whatnot.
3. Do any of you have one of these portable media players? Any recommendations? I’m guessing HDMI output would be best since just about every hotel has a flatscreen HDTV. Of course, I could always get some composite cables as a backup.
4. Do you think this would be the best way to accomplish my goal? If not, I’d love some recommendations.
Thank you very much for reading. Have a great day and I hope you can help me! :)
I had no idea where to post this, so I chose the general forum. I hope you’re able to help me, as I have many questions and am not sure what the best equipment would be for the task.
I’m going to be traveling in the near future and want to chill with some friends in our hotel room and watch some movies. The movies I want to bring are on DVD (I don’t have a Blu-Ray drive on my PC, anyway, and SD quality is good enough for this.) I have no idea if the hotel Wi-Fi will be good enough to stream my digital copies I own from various services, and I don’t want to risk there being HDMI copy protection issues somehow from using my iPhone, so I’m wanting to just rip the DVDs, convert them, and place the video files on a card or stick to play on a portable media player of some kind to hook up to the TV.
It’s been years since I’ve ripped a DVD and whatnot, so I apologize for asking so many questions. Here they are:
1. What would be the best software to rip my discs? I don’t think I’d be ripping any recent movies, so I don’t think the protection on them would be too complex. Looking for something secure (to tell you how long it’s been since I’ve ripped anything, I remember people were always paranoid about software phoning home and whatnot. Hahaha.) and easy to use. I think I used to use DVDFab HD Decrypter as the DVD ripping portion was free.
2. What kind of codec would you recommend? Also settings and whatnot.
3. Do any of you have one of these portable media players? Any recommendations? I’m guessing HDMI output would be best since just about every hotel has a flatscreen HDTV. Of course, I could always get some composite cables as a backup.
4. Do you think this would be the best way to accomplish my goal? If not, I’d love some recommendations.
Thank you very much for reading. Have a great day and I hope you can help me! :)