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How To Rip DVD Movies and View Them On Your PC

By R. Jerome Harris Ever wanted to rip any DVD movie and view it on your computer with free programs that actually work well? You can! Ripping DVD movies is a great way to archive your DVD movies. Understand that "Ripping" a DVD movie is not the same as "Copying" a DVD movie. Copying a DVD movie is a three step process in which an original DVD movie is copied blank DVD media. Ripping, on the other hand, is a one step process where a DVD’s raw data (the audio and video component) is extracted from the DVD and placed on your hard drive. Once a DVD has been ripped, there are several things you can do with it. You can:

  1. View the movie from the ripped raw data using special DVD software players.
  2. Convert the raw data into smaller compressed movie files such as AVI, MPEG, DivX, MOV, or XVID for archiving purposes and/or to view them with special software players such as Quicktime, Divx Player, or Windows Media Player.  These types of conversions help conserve hard disc space as ripped DVD raw data files are quite large.
  3. Convert the ripped raw data into a format that can be burned onto a blank DVD or CD.
If you simply want to rip a DVD and view the movie from the raw data, it is very easy to do using two programs:
  1. DVD Decrypter
  2. Windows Media Player Classic

If you want to copy a DVD movie to and blank DVD, this is certainly possible using free programs but the process is quite time consuming and you have no guarantee that your copy will work. You are much better off purchasing a professional DVD copy program. However, if you are looking for a way to quickly rip a DVD movie and view it from your computer using free programs, then check out the video tutorial below. It gives you step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish this task as well as the link to download the programs you need. Enjoy!


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