ripping

I have a lot of DVDs that I want to recycle but I also want to keep them on my computer if I ever want to watch them again. They take up a lot of space so ripping them would be the best storage option. However, I haven't ripped a DVD since Windows 2k days, lol. Can ya'll suggest some software...

Hello I tried to post at hardware but it did not respond so I am trying here. A while ago I made home movies into DVDs which were saved to a format by Ashampoo which I have forgotten but I was warned they could only be played on computers . Now that we are moving away from optical drives, I had...

Windows 7 x64 latest updates applied. WMP 12 now cannot rip CDs. :mad: It was set up and worked fine, but the disk that the path pointed to has been removed from system. Now ripping does not work, and I cannot reset the path. THe options dialog just ignores the click on (CHANGE...) button for...

Okay, so I'm ripping my audio CDs, and I just had a problem getting the drive to open, So I looked and saw a tiny hole on the drive, I stuck a paper clip in it and it opened. Now however I cannot get it to detect any CDs. It will not load anything. Now I looked and I realized that...

Hello, I am in the process of ripping an audiobook to my hard drive, but one or two of the discs report read errors and stubbornly refuse to be ripped. I have been using AudioGrabber, NCH's Express Rip and Windows Media Player so far. They all stumble on discs 7 and 8 in a big way; they hang...

I have a problem when trying to play some home movie videos that I had captured from a stand alone Panasonic DVD recorder and ripped to my computer hard drive. (I don't remember what software I used to rip the DVDs. It was a long time ago.) The videos play fine when previewed in Windows...

Hi My system is using a Toshiba Satellite L500D and I have Windows 7 Home Premium as a clean install since RC7 and a further clean install once it went official. This CDDVDW plays, rips and burns cds fine. When it comes to DVDs however, it rarely plays, will not rip and fails on burns. This...

Hello Hubby for Valentines day built me a new computer and put Windows7 Professional 64bit. Yesterday I ripped some music to the computer. It is not coming up in the Media player at all but is in my music. I would like it to be in my Media player as well. Please help....I am so frustrated...

I use Media Center to play and rip CD's. Is this some type of malware protection mechanism? Is it a glitch? Will it be addressed later in a service pack? I love Media Center. I try to use it whenever possible but especially for playing and ripping cd's. For now, under start>default...

I am with a problem, still have 200-300 cds to rip and encode into mp3/mpc. Untill Windows 7, I had been using Exact Audio Copy with Lame (--alt preset -standard), but EAC does not work in Windows 7. Windows 7 freezes in a couple of seconds after a rip has been initiated - have tried with the...

Anyone using DVDFab 5 or 6? I am getting an error when trying to rip DVD to xbox360 format. It happens in either version. Task_1 failed! Error=4(501 18 -1072886856) So far ripping dvd's works fine for Main Movie but not xbox360. :(

I have the latest Itunes on 32bit RC I can rip CDs with Itunes (m4a format) without issues. WMP will play the songs fine but will not add them to the library. The songs show up under "Other Media". Properties show that "This file is missing media rights". I can rip the CDs with WMP and...

There are a few things that bug me about the new Media Player (which otherwise I think is pretty sweet), and I was wondering if someone has a fix. The first: does anyone knows how to change the top album cover presented in "artist" view? I don't see any UI element that allows me to do that...

i would like to know what everyone's opinion is on the fastest, most versatile and reliable dvd ripping software, that is compatible with win 7. i want to rip to hard drive, not to burn a dvd.

Well, I thought I'd try the old Broken Sword games again, for the pure nostalgic fun of it... Everything went well at first, Shadow of the Templars (BS1) and The Smoking Mirror (BS2) are working fine in ScummVM. Broken Sword 2.5 installed without a hitch and runs perfectly fine as well. But...

Hi peeps - newbie here Have a new Pentium Dual Core PC with Windows Vista. For one week I was able to rip an audio CD to MP3 with Windows Media Player. Mysteriously now when I...