Greetings,
I frequently rip DVD and BD media to ISO files, and then convert them to MKV, with H264 compression, for storage on my server, and subsequent streaming to my media player(s).
AnyDVD does a flawless job of extracting the desired info (from both DVD & BD), and producing ISO image files (Well done SlySoft!) For converting/compressing the ISO, and saving the result to an MKV file, I would like to be able to depend on DVDFab, since I purchased lifetime licenses for both their DVD and BD rippers, and because when DVDFab works, it is very fast, and produces good results. BUT, with each new version of the software, something that didn't work properly in the previous version, may or may not work in the new version, and more disturbingly, things that worked properly in the previous version are FREQUENTLY broken in the new version. I'm not sure what sort of testing is being done before software updates are released, but their process is pitifully flawed.
When DVDFab fails me while trying to convert DVDs, I routinely fall back to Handbrake, which is very reliable, and produces good results, but is MUCH slower than DVDFab, and thus not an optimal solution for my purposes.
What's worse is that when DVDFab lets me down with a BD conversion, the only fallback solution I have been aware of is MakeMKV, which does no compression, and therefore produces MKV files that are unacceptably large for my purposes.
I would really appreciate any suggestions for software that can do as good a job as DVDFab's DVD/BD rippers, but is robust and reliable, which DVDFab absolutely is not. :(
Thank you very much for any advice!
I frequently rip DVD and BD media to ISO files, and then convert them to MKV, with H264 compression, for storage on my server, and subsequent streaming to my media player(s).
AnyDVD does a flawless job of extracting the desired info (from both DVD & BD), and producing ISO image files (Well done SlySoft!) For converting/compressing the ISO, and saving the result to an MKV file, I would like to be able to depend on DVDFab, since I purchased lifetime licenses for both their DVD and BD rippers, and because when DVDFab works, it is very fast, and produces good results. BUT, with each new version of the software, something that didn't work properly in the previous version, may or may not work in the new version, and more disturbingly, things that worked properly in the previous version are FREQUENTLY broken in the new version. I'm not sure what sort of testing is being done before software updates are released, but their process is pitifully flawed.
When DVDFab fails me while trying to convert DVDs, I routinely fall back to Handbrake, which is very reliable, and produces good results, but is MUCH slower than DVDFab, and thus not an optimal solution for my purposes.
What's worse is that when DVDFab lets me down with a BD conversion, the only fallback solution I have been aware of is MakeMKV, which does no compression, and therefore produces MKV files that are unacceptably large for my purposes.
I would really appreciate any suggestions for software that can do as good a job as DVDFab's DVD/BD rippers, but is robust and reliable, which DVDFab absolutely is not. :(
Thank you very much for any advice!