On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:34 PM, N K <nakorsakov at gmail.com> wrote: > What would you guys recommend for ripping DVDs? the best tool for backing up your DVDs is vobcopy, it will rip the entire DVD to a hard disk and optionally remove those pesky user restrictions. still needs libdvdcss if the DVD is encrypted though. With todays hard drives there really is no need to reencode the data stream and CPU overhead that it requires.