The Ninja is currently in the process of ripping his entire dvd and hd movie collection to his media server to enable wider streaming of films and also to enable archiving of the physical discs to cold storage. I explored a variety of options for doing this including using the popular
Nero, the ever-excellent Handbrake and digging out old faithful warez like Smartripper and DVDx but really wanted a one-click, drop-the-disc-in solution.
I wanted something to convert to h264 mp4 and also to retain the 5.1 surround sound effect rather than downgrade to just stereo mp3. I finally settled on my old version of DVDFab (v.6) and began to rip to away (but to be honest wasn’t really happy with the output results) but that was before receiving the offer to upgrade to the latest edition (v8.0.8.5) and wow what a difference that made!!!!
Optimised for Nvidia’s CUDA architecture that is designed to boost read times through the gpu, the latest editions of DVDFab offer awesome upgrades in processing speed. The difference was incredible as I saw transcoding times drop from approximately 1hr 15minutes to under 30minutes for the main movie of a dvd. At this rate I’ll blow through the conversion process for my two hundred or so movies in a matter of days rather than weeks or months.
The benefit for me of DVDFab is its ability to directly read from the disc rather than have to copy the TS folders to the hard drive first before transcoding. As a result of its simplicity, efficacy and quality of output I would have to say that DVDFab is a must-own product now for any home movie fan…
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