Well, this GAOTD doesn't rip or backup to loseless DVD folder or ISO format, which is or better yet should be an essential feature for any DVD ripper out there...

So why give it an astonishing 80% THUMBS UP??

Once again the GAOTD rating does NOT reflect the real value of the software!!

BEST (and BETTER) FREE ALTERNATIVES

* BDlot DVD ISO Master
Terrific FREE utility which helps you backup ANY protected DVD to a cross-platform ISO image 1:1 copy, compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, and Unix, without any remarkable video or audio quality loss (it takes some time to do that though!!)
Then, once you have created the ISO IMAGE, you can easily burn it to a DVD/CD/Blu-ray disc at high speed, or play it by the majority of media players out there (PotPlayer, VLC, Mplayer, DAPlayer etc...), or better yet watch it on a virtual disk drive after mounting the image over it using a FREE DVD ISO mounter like "Gizmo Drive".
This is one of the few FREE tools out there able to unlock DVD region codes and defeat ALL those bloody copy protection and well-known damn restrictions which make a DVD copy pretty much impossible, such as CSS, CPRM, CPPM, APS, UOPs, ARccOS, Rip-Guard, and unlike this GAOTD, even Disney X protection.
And with this magic FREE tool you can forget quality loss due to burning errors once and for all, since it also sports an unique "Error Proofing Technology" designed ensure to the integrity and sequence of DVD data after burning.

http://www.bdlot.com/dvd-iso-master

* DVDFab HD Decrypter

This GEM is an amazing FREE all-in-one DVD copying, converting & burning software, which can remove almost all DVD protections of a whatsoever DVD and then copy your DVD/Blu-ray to your HD at high speed.

http://www.dvdfab.com/hd-decrypter.htm

Full tutorial:
http://www.dvdfab.com/tutorial/DVDFab-HD-Decrypter

Enjoy!

My 2 cents for today's giveaway!!

Giovanni  –  11 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+163)

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hey...

my bad...forgot to mention this brand-new FREE APP:

http://www.dvdaux.com/index.html

As you can see it supports both NVIDIA CUDA and Intel Quick Sync acceleration technologies and unlike this GAOTD users can copy a DVD of theirs not only to a blank DVD Disc but also to an ISO file and DVD Folder without any hassle, with the ability to clip the videos, set their video and audio bitrate, resolution, frame rate and aspect ratio, as well as change the output audio tracks and subtitles with ease.

Thanks to its constantly updated technology, it's also able to decrypt and remove even the latest DVD copy protections, including CSS encryption, region code, Sony ARccOS, UOPs, APS, RCE and much more.

Yes...it's FREE....Simply amazing!!

Enjoy!!!

P.S. Yes, agree with comment N.9....this ridiculous high rating and inflation of THUMBS UP in a blink of an eye sounds very fishy.
They probably use the same dirty tricks played by Aieesoft, namely use several proxies to fool GAOTD rating system!! And honestly this is absolutely ludicrous and senseless, since most of their products are very good indeed!! So why cheating readers by manipulating the GAOTD rating system? And why GAOTD team do nothing about that??

Giovanni  –  11 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+84)

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Pros
*Convert DVDs to other video formats
*Works with DVD discs, folderes, and ISOs as input
*Supports bypass of DRM protection
*Supports many output formats

Cons
*Cannot output/store as DVD folder or ISO

Free Alternatives
Review of best free DVD ripper for Windows

Final Verdict
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Ashraf from dotTech  –  11 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+75)

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I strongly suspect Tipard and Aieesoft are either the same company or closely related. Again we have a ridiculous inflation of thumbs up votes right from the start that is only found with these vendors. Add to that the obvious planted comments praising the software in the same fractured English. What you get is a company that feels it has to resort to shady tactics to push it's products. That's not a company I trust. Thanks, GOTD, but I'll be passing on this one.

Cindy Flaxington  –  11 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+75)

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Tipard DVD Ripper Platinum is a ffmpeg-based video converter that uses QT code to speed up performance, but it only accepts DVDs as input, rather than accepting pretty much any video you want to feed it like several alternatives. That's not a huge deal -- converters/rippers that accept more kinds of video may simply be a better value for your money, depending of course on the price. As far as these ffmpeg-based converters/rippers go, Tipard DVD Ripper Platinum doesn't appear to vary a whole lot from the rest of the crowd. It does have some editing capabilities, but other than including them because they're in the converter this ripper is based on, I'm kind of unsure why...

Since you can only use DVD source material, adjusting anything wouldn't be called for, & wouldn't do much good. If you got the DVD from a recorder & wanted to cut commercials, if the audio's the usual AC3, there's an excellent chance you'll have sync problems, though not everyone notices or is concerned about that sort of thing. It can be useful to trim the end credits off a movie to get a smaller file, but while the credits add enough to the file size on a DVD to matter, converted to AVC video, not so much. Cropping the video to remove any letterboxing can be a good thing, but it can also get you into trouble if/when you use one of these converters to prepare video for your handheld, which is after all what they're best at... if/when you crop off the letterboxing for a movie you've got a wider, shorter video frame that'll display fine on a PC in whatever player's window, but on a cell or tablet or other handheld the video's more likely to be displayed full screen, & there's a very good chance your cropped video will be stretched taller, making everything thinner than it should be. So test 1st.

That said, while I don't have a huge need, I'll hang onto Tipard DVD Ripper Platinum because like the average converter on GOTD, it has a pretty small footprint, & may use a later version of ffmpeg than the others. Most of these converters using ffmpeg & QT code perform really well encoding AVC for a handheld [I remember when doing this conversion with high quality was quite the challenge], but every so often a conversion will give me problems [in those cases I *think* there's usually something "Off" about the source], so I'll run through my collection of converters until one of them works. It may even be only a couple/few lines of code are different, but whatever, my only concern is that it works.

Ffmpeg [ffmpeg.org] is distributed as source code as well as compiled into the files you're used to seeing, but it's pretty difficult to tell which version's used in whatever app unless the developer gives you that info. There was a major update in July -- you can read the changelog on the ffmpeg home page. Commercial apps that use ffmpeg tend to incorporate new versions more slowly than free &/or open source alternatives, if for no other reason than they need to do a lot of testing to help make sure customers don't have problems -- if you have a problem with free software the best you'll often get is thanks for filling out a bug report. Still, if you want to use the latest ffmpeg you might want to check out the compiled Windows versions, front ends, & tools at videohelp.com -- http://www.videohelp.com/tools?toolsearch=ffmpeg&submit=Search&convert=&s=&orderby=Name&hits=50

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FWIW...

Hollywood's a bit like the cable & satellite providers, Netflix, Amazon's streaming service etc. -- the quality you get is what they feel you'll likely settle for. Video DVDs are intended for standard, interlaced TVs -- pretty much the same boxes that people have viewed in their living rooms for over 1/2 a century. Broadcast quality to those TVs was/is rather poor, so Video DVDs had/have really a pretty low threshold to meet or beat. If you're after quality you can usually do Much better starting with a HD source [e.g. Blu-Ray], converting it to DVD or lower resolutions for your handhelds.

If quality isn't as important to you [after all we're not talking about big screens], you may not want to bother with all this conversion stuff to start with. Software can stream DVD video from your home PC to your cell or tablet, or you can use VLC Mobil for instance to play the mpg2 video as-is -- run the DVD through DVD Shrink to put the video in a single VOB file [the setting is in the preferences], & copy that to whatever your tablet for example uses for external storage, e.g. a micro SD card, hopefully using a USB 3.0 card reader to keep the copy times to a minimum.

mike  –  11 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+35)

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