Nowadays there is so much DVD ripping software in market designed for ripping valuable or useful DVD into formats that we need, so it is getting hard to choose one right. I used to have xilisoft and magic DVD ripper. The former one is Ok while the latter one couldn’t meet my need for the quality of the outcome. It ripped a 20-minute video into a 250 MB file, but the quality was even poorer than a 175 MB version I downloaded from internet. After a brief survey on internet, it seems that DVD Decrypter and AutoGK are better among the ones exist and we know.
I have two fundamental requirements about this kind of software. First of all the size of the outcome should be relatively small, or else it lose the meaning of ripping; because if not condensed I prefer copying it, which can at least remain the quality of DVD. The size between 200 and 300 MB is favorable. And the other requirement is about the quality. It is better not be very poor. Actually when using AutoGK I find out that there are two ripping strategies separately. If you need to maintain the quality as well as possible, then you tick the quality button and as a result you have to accept that the file size might be bigger to some extent. Likewise if you choose the restricted file size encoding strategy, then you have to compromise to the poor quality. So on the whole, there is no method to meet the two requirements, and the end justifies the means.
The big problem of AutoGK is that it can only rip the entire DVD in stead of one episode. This is quite inconvenient, since sometimes people only need to store part of the target DVD. So in order to get the part we need we have to rip the whole DVD. It would be a waste of time and also the outcome would occupy much space in our computer. This is a big disadvantage of it. While the software called DVDFab Decrypter can make up this kind of defect. It has the options for you to choose the episode you want to rip.
Another incident I ran into the other day when I used AutoGK is that a box popped open saying “COM Surrogate has stopped working” and the files didn’t seem to be converting correctly. Later I know that it is the odd version of the ffdshow pack that causes the error in Vista. And changing to another release is the final solution.
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