"Ripping" h: Oh Basement DVD-guru-guys

I am going to be taking a long trip and wish to watch some DVD's on my laptop. Rather than bring a stack of DVD's (and risk losing/scratching them) along with the DVD-rom constantly spinning, I'd rather put a few on the hard drive and watch them from there.

Any suggestions? I've been told DVD shrink, but not sure what to output the files as.

Looking for efficiency (fast way) as well as disk space efficiency.

Thanks

 

no.... pick one.

 

let the drive spin, it's what it was made to do h:

and get a cd case...

 

i keep getting an error with my dvd shrink.. i dont know whats wrong

 

with the same or different dvds?

 

get daemon manager, and use nero to make a image of the disk... then put the image into the daemon "virtual drive".. good to go. its what i do with all the disks i need to use often

 

:hs: I thought about that after I posted it. Disk efficiency.

Trying to extend battery life.

 

Sometimes the discs are protected from DVD copying software.

 

you can use GordianKnot to convery the dvd to Xvid... takes 3-4 hrs per dvd... yields either a 700meg or 1.4gig file

 

If you have a long time to do it, use DVD shrink. If not, make images of them and save them to your computer, then just mount them using Alcohol 120%.