Ripping Just the Main Movie?

[blackcows]

In the process of ripping my DVDs to HDD, using DVDFab6 and it is going well but I am wondering if I should be ripping the entire DVD. I started off just ripping the main movie to save space but wonder if I will regret that in the futrue.

Mike

[Fuzzy]

All depends on your preferences... if you find yourself interested in the menus and special features, then sure, rip the whole disk. Usually it doesn't result in a LOT more space taken up (as most the space is the main movie, anyways). besides.. storage is cheap.

[btrcp2000]

For me it's not so much the space as it is the crapola you have to get through to get to the main movie if you rip the whole dvd. is there any way to have sage automatically play the movie, or at least go straight to the menu?

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by btrcp2000

For me it's not so much the space as it is the crapola you have to get through to get to the main movie if you rip the whole dvd

This and why i only rip the main movie, with the english (and main if not english) soundtrack and the captions.

[Fuzzy]

Sage won't be able to be configured to jump to the main movie directly, however, if you rip THOURGH AnyDVD, it has the capability to alter the disc on the fly to make it jump to the main movie.

Personally, I do it on a disc by disc basis. Lots of things, i just do the movie.. however, on stuff like Disney discs, I do the whole disc (mostly for some of the play options... such as the Disney Music feature, that just jumps through the disc form song to song.. the 3 year old loves this). Most my movies are ripped down to a single MKV file (with a single audio track, and full chapters)

[SWKerr]

I can't stand the disk menus. Takes several minutes to even get to the menu in some cases.

If you just want the main movie then I also like the *.mkv option. I use MakeMKV, it will turn the main movie into a single mkv file. I will also select out subtitles and alternate audio in most cases.

You can also compress the movie to save disk space and probably not notice a difference in quality. (Although not in MakeMKV)

[Fuzzy]

AnyDVD also does modify the disc's scripts to take you directly to the main movie (skipping adverts and trailers) which does work well in most cases.

[paulbeers]

I do movie only for my entirely 350+ disc collection. It doesn't save a lot, but I never watch the extra stuff anyway and not having to do with all the extra crap is huge to me. Without the extras I can fit right at around 100 DVD's on a 500GB drive (465GB per Windows).