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7 Best Free DVD Ripping Tools for Windows
You may need a DVD ripping tool to back up your fond DVDs since DVDs are easily got scratched or you just want to get the content of your DVDs play in your mobile devices or media players. Before you pay for a commercial DVD ripping tool, you can take a look at these 7 most popular free DVD ripping tools which may not be as powerful as the commercial ones but are enough to take the basic ripping task.
After you backup and copy your DVDs, you may want to convert the movie file formats in you computer so that you can play the ripped DVDs on different mobile device like iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, MP3. Then you can drop in at the top media converters and online file converters we introduced before.
Since DVD Shrink has not been developed for years, it may be unable to decrypt some DVDs with newer copy-protection, but it is still one of the most popular free DVD rippers to back up DVD discs, with the unique feature of compressing 8GB dual-layer DVDs down to 4GB sizes by re-encoding and discarding extra content such as foreign-language soundtracks so that you can then burn them to single-layer DVD-Rs using DVD burning software. You may need to run a decrypter like DVD43 in the background when using DVD Shrink to rip DVDs or rip the DVD first using another DVD ripper and then use it to shrink the ripped DVD.
Despite being a simple version of DVDFab Platinum, DVDFab HD Decrypter is enough for you to do as much as you like for DVD decrypting and ripping. It copies entire DVD/Blu-ray movie to hard drive, and removes all the DVD protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) and part of Blu-ray protections (AACS, BD+, RC, UOPS and BD-Live) while copying.
We have listed the cross-platfor program HandBrake in the best free media converters and now we again list it here since it is able to rip unencrypted DVD to most popular video or audio formats. It works well and fast, taking both tasks of ripping and converting.
Like DVD shrink, the development on DVD Decrypter has been halted, but it is still quite competent for decrypting copy-protected DVD and ripping it to your hard drive.
Also a development-stopped tool for years, Smart Ripper is yet an efficient and easy to use DVD ripper. It has some nice features including key-check, per-chapter splitting of VOB files, angle processing and displaying statistics such as length, size, and max/min/average bitrate for every chapter and active selection. Like HandBrake, it can also extract audio from the video by choosing Demux to extra file in ‘File’ mode and save the audio track in WAV format.
WinX DVD Ripper is capable of ripping DVDs to your computer hard drive and saving in popular video formats such as AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, FLV, and MPEG1/2. You can also extract audio track out of the DVD and save as MP3 music file. It’s easy to use and work fast. However, support for decrypting DVDs with the newest copy protections is only available when you pay for the pro edition.
DVD43 is a free DVD decrypter that runs in the background and decrypts DVD when you insert the DVD so that you can start ripping your DVD using your DVD ripping software. It is a must-have when your DVD ripper like DVD Shrink, HandBrake, DVDFab, DVD Decrypter or the other tool fails to decrypt the copy protection. However, it is not compatible with 64 bit Windows.