Oi, don't hurt me? A newbie question on DVD ripping.

Strange Little Girl · Post by **Strange Little Girl** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:25 pm

Yes, I have searched around the site. It's possible I missed it but, on the offchance that I didn't, I want to ask ...
Is it possible to rip DVDs without a DVD-rom or DVD-burner? I have neither of these things, at the present, though I am working on getting a burner for my birthday later this month.
One of the reasons I thought of asking is because a friend of mine mentioned that her step-father has a program on his computer that allows him to rip DVDs into AVIs and then he burns them onto VCDs. And he only has a CD-burner.

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:37 pm

i think you are refering to the guides:

here's the link:

http://animemusicvideos.org/guides/

/end

Ean · Post by **Ean** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:39 pm

Strange Little Girl wrote: Is it possible to rip DVDs without a DVD-rom or DVD-burner?

Nope. You need some sort of disc drive with DVD capability in order to rip DVDs...

Strange Little Girl wrote:I thought of asking is because a friend of mine mentioned that her step-father has a program on his computer that allows him to rip DVDs into AVIs and then he burns them onto VCDs. And he only has a CD-burner.

I doubt that... your standard CD-burner/CD-drive can't even read a DVD unless it's a DVD drive. He might have one of those DVD/CD-burner drives which is a nice little combo that enables him to use the drive to read DVDs and burn CD-Rs...

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:40 pm

:\
no
her stepfather is lying
seriously :O it's impossible, a CD drive uses a 780nm red laser to read/write, whereas DVD uses 650nm red laser. Aside from that the numerical apeture is different as is the pit spacing/size, meaning a CD laser couldn't possibly fit to read a DVD's bits. :\

Strange Little Girl · Post by **Strange Little Girl** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:41 pm

Ah well, thank you both for the help ^^ Back to the download-material AMV's I go.

Ean · Post by **Ean** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:45 pm

RadicalEd0 wrote::\
seriously :O it's impossible, a CD drive uses a 780nm red laser to read/write, whereas DVD uses 650nm red laser. Aside from that the numerical apeture is different as is the pit spacing/size, meaning a CD laser couldn't possibly fit to read a DVD's bits. :\

<a href="http://bestbuys.dealtime.com/xPO-Plexto ... 500">Check this out</a>. There's a nice little CD-RW/DVD-rom drive for ya.

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 9:12 pm

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I wasn't talking about combo drives, regular CD-ROM and CD-R/RW drives are clearly the issue at hand

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 9:50 pm

MMmmmm blue lasers

NME · Post by **NME** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 9:52 pm

OR ARE THEY?

DUN DUN DUNNNNN

LSM53 · Post by **LSM53** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 10:49 pm

lol

if u have a dvd player, couldn't u theroretally output it to a capture card?

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Oi, don't hurt me? A newbie question on DVD ripping.

Oi, don't hurt me? A newbie question on DVD ripping.

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