Quickly & Easily RIP DVDs with Wonderfox DVD Ripper Pro - Review

How to Quickly & Easily RIP DVD's to your computer or laptop using the DVD Ripper Pro software from #Wonderfox. The software is very user friendly, easy to navigate and works great.
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Being able to have a digital backup of
your DVD and Blu-ray collection is quite
handy, whether it be for backup purposes
just to keep them protected, or maybe
you have a Plex server, a media server
in your home that you want to be able to
put the DVDs on. Or maybe you want to be
able to put it on to your laptop and
take it with you when you travel to
watch movies on the airplane or when
you're sitting bored in your hotel room.
Hello everyone, my name is Andy and
welcome back to Kap Tech. And today I'm
doing a review of the DVD Ripper Pro
software from WonderFox. Now real quick
before we get into it, this is not free
software and full disclosure the company
did send me a key to be able to test out
the pro version features to be able to
do the full review for it. But they did
not have any input on the review. They
aren't seeing this review before anybody
else is or have any input whatsoever on
the outcome of it. But I wanted to let
you guys know that I did get a license
key for free to do the review, but the
review is my honest opinion. So we'll
cover the basic installation of the
software just to get things started.
It's a basic installer, there's nothing
super complicated about it. You select
the end user license agreement that you
accept it, you tell it where you want to
install the program at, you click
install, and it goes through and copies
over the files, and it does it
relatively quickly. So after that you
are good to go and you are ready to run
the program. Now one small annoying
thing that happens when you first
install it is it pops up and go straight
to their website to let you know say,
"Hey, thanks for installing it. By the
way, if you want to buy it, here is what
the actual price is now. We have a sale
going on. Here's the limitations as to
what you can do with the free version."
The biggest problem with the free
version right off the bat is that you
can only rip 15 minutes of each DVD. Now
I don't know who would only want to rip
15 minutes over there other than just to
be able to give an idea as to how it
turns out when you use this, but that is
the limitation of the unregistered or
free version of the software. You have
access to most of the different formats
and options within there, but as far as
length you can only do 15 minutes at a
time. So that's kind of a big pain in
the butt. Okay, so once you are ready to
start using it, you select which option
you want to. Chances are you're probably
going to choose your DVD drive as the
source just because that's what you're
ripping a DVD for, and it'll go through
and input a lot of the scenes. Now do
keep in mind this is a DVD Ripper
software, so it doesn't work at all with
Blu-ray. I tried multiple Blu-rays in
the drive or whatever and it didn't even
recognize it as a disc. So do keep in
mind that this is strictly for DVDs. Now
if you have no idea what you're doing
when it comes to ripping DVDs or
conversions or compression ratios or
anything like that, that's totally fine.
The software makes it really easy to
use. It breaks down the different scenes
within the video, so you can go through
and select the different ones if you
want to.
Uh if you know what you're doing, uh
chances are you're going to select the
very first scene that's in there, which
is the main movie. Then at the bottom
you can go through and select where you
want the output to be, as in where you
want to save the final version of the
DVD, and then you're ready to go. Now
you pull up this slide out menu here and
you'll see tons of different
pre-selected formats. You have your
quick copy if you just want to rip a
one-to-one straight from the disc over
there. Then you have different video
formats that you want to choose from.
Regular video, HD and 4K format options
are available, too. Web format or just
audio if you want to get just MP3 of it.
And then you have some specifics based
on company like Apple, Samsung,
Microsoft, Google, LG, and Amazon, etc.
And within each one of these
subcategories, you have different
pre-selected choices you can select and
it'll go through and change all of the
settings for how it's going to rip the
DVD based just on what you did. That way
you don't have to manually try and
change any of the settings around, it
does it for you. For this video, I'm
going to select the basic MKV file
format. That's what I use for everything
on the Plex server. And once you have it
selected, you can raise the settings
options here and you have different
video audio settings. You can change the
encoder, the resolution, frame rates,
the bit rate, and you can change it from
constant bit rate to variable bit rate
if you know what you're doing. When you
get in there you do have that option for
a little bit more advanced settings. It
has all the defaults that you can choose
automatically if you want to, or you can
set them up and make your own specific
options here. You can change it however
you want to and then just save it so you
can use it for future versions here. And
so you do have a lot of control over it,
but if you are incredibly new to this
and you're super nervous about doing the
wrong one, you can select just one of
the basic formats and it'll
automatically change all the settings
for you so you don't have to know what
you're doing specifically to be able to
get the right format. And if you
minimize the settings output menus, then
you have this little slider that you can
go to adjust between high quality and
low quality. Low quality will rip at a
higher speed, obviously, and higher
quality is going to go at a lower speed.
And that's just going to basically
change what the bit rate is when it's
encoding it there. So if you don't mind
letting it churn away for a good long
time, then you can go ahead and just
choose the highest quality cuz that's
probably what you're going to want to be
able to see on there anyway, but at
least you kind of have that option as a
slider to see what works best for you.
At the top of the program you'll see the
button to register it if you want to buy
it and so you can put your code in
there, check for updates, you can go to
the options, you can see different batch
conversion ratios if you want to. You
can see the different kinds of options
you have. You can enable GPU
acceleration if you have a better
graphics card in your computer to allow
faster encoding. There's just where the
basic options are here. The default that
you have when you install is going to be
what you need. There's a help center and
then there's the drop-down menu if you
want to get some more information. Most
of those are just links to their actual
website. So when you're ready to go, you
have everything set up the way you want
to, you just click on run. Now just to
show you what it looks like, I'm doing
this in the free version so you can see
what it pops up with the unregistered
copy. It tells you the different
limitations you have between
unregistered and registered with a link
to buy, of course. Or you can just click
on continue and it will begin to rip the
first 15 minutes of that video.
Now something to keep in mind is the
speed in which it's able to rip the
files to your hard drive is going to be
dependent on the read speed of the DVD
drive that you actually have the disc in
and the write speed of the hard drive
that you put it on there. And then of
course the level of compression that you
have on here, the quality that you
choose, all that other stuff is going to
affect how long it takes. But on average
it take anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes
for a decent size copy of a disc to be
put on your hard drive with different
compression. And then of course once
it's done you're going to get the pop-up
to say, "Hey, congratulations, you're
done." Since I'm using the giveaway
version here, it'll give me offer to buy
a 50% off the upgraded full version. Or
if you're using the free version, it'll
pop up and say, "Hey, here's what you
can get with the full version if if you
don't want to use the unregistered
version anymore." So it's just kind of a
pop-up. You can click the the X button
to close that and go back to the program
or click on open and it'll open the file
up to where you finished recording it
to. Now for this next part I'm showing
you information about the specific files
from within my Plex server just because
it gives a really good breakdown of
everything that's there. The information
on the screen right now was taken after
I did MakeMKV, which is a different
piece of software that all it does is it
rips the video straight from the disc
onto the server, no compression or
anything else to go along with it. It's
just a basic file and you can see that
it's got a bit rate of a little under
6,000 and the total file size for this
is around 5.7 gigs. That's something to
keep in mind when you're ripping a bunch
of DVDs is that the higher the bit rate
with no compression, the larger the file
size is going to be. So then what I did
was I ran the same movie through the
WonderFox DVD Ripper software that I'm
showing here in the video. I made the
same file format. I chose MKV as the
file format and left all the settings as
default. Didn't change anything about
it. This is just a regular setting if
you did nothing else in the software.
You can see the bit rate it chose was at
1409 kbps. This is done through the
H.264 compression codec. So you end up
with a file size that's just a little
bit under 1.4 gigs in size versus over 5
gigs just the straight DVD rip. And then
I did the movie the third time in the
same software here except for when I
chose the MKV file format. This time I
set the settings to high quality, so it
took longer to do it, of course, but it
used the exact same codec. And you can
see here that the bit rate was almost
twice what it was in the original just
leaving on the default. And the file
size was at 2.35 gigs, which is still
less than half than just ripping it
straight from the disc to the server by
itself. So you can see by using the
software here that you did get a good
chance of having a much smaller sizes
because you're not just ripping straight
from the file sizes. So often times what
we'll do if we're using something like a
DVD rip like MakeMKV where it's just
pulling it straight off of the disc,
then we have to use another piece of
software like HandBrake to recompress
it, to re-encode it so that it's a much
smaller format because having six and
seven gig files will fill up your drive
really quickly. But you can see by using
the WonderFox here that it was able to
rip and compress it at the same time, so
you get a good quality video but at a
much smaller file size. So we'll switch
over to the actual website now for
WonderFox, which of course links to all
this is going to be in the video
description down below if you want to go
check it out. But you can see for a
single one PC license that's a lifetime
license, it's about 30 bucks. And of
course they have different deals we can
get multiple PCs, etc. for different
kind of values depending on what their
sale is going on at the time now. But
you can see right now that it's a $30
value.
So this kind of comes down to trying to
determine if if that's valuable enough
for you. Um normally when I'm ripping
DVDs, like I said, I'll make use of some
free software like MakeMKV where it rips
it to the server, but then I have to use
another piece of software to re-encode
it so that it doesn't take up so much
hard drive space. So if that's not
something you want to do and jumping
through all the hoops and you just want
to be able to click a couple buttons and
it's done, you don't have to worry about
it, then that extra 30 bucks might be
absolutely worth spending a little bit
of money on for a lifetime license. That
comes with free upgrades, technical
support, you get help from them if you
need any problems, and you got a money
back guarantee. I think that's 30 days
as well, too. So So in the end I can say
that I do think the price of the
software is actually worth it
considering how much time it saves you
from having to do all the other hoop
jumping through using the free software.
Okay, so I'm going to be wrapping up my
review there. Um I honestly think this
software is really good. It's really
easy to use for people who don't know
what they're doing. Um but it does have
the tools available for people who do
know what they're doing to make
adjustments and changes to work it the
way they absolutely want it to. But for
the novice user, this works really well
with doing it right the first time
without making it super confusing. So in
my opinion, this is actually really good
software. It's really fast and powerful.
The $30 price tag is not that bad
considering how much you're getting
here. so you know, that's just my honest
opinion of it. Uh if you have any
questions, you can drop it in the
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