Free DVD Ripper

kusala
#1. January 30th, 2007, at 12:54 PM.

Definitely recommended! Easy to use and good functionality. Works a charm!

person
#2. April 20th, 2007, at 9:19 PM.

i really don’t understand how to work this thing.it’s “encoding” it but it only does a part of the movie.and i can’t even find it once its finish.it’s so confusing.not simple at all.for me at least.

phil
#3. May 29th, 2007, at 10:40 PM.

work better than the one i bought

äĐäM
#4. May 31st, 2007, at 4:19 PM.

This is the best DVD ripper i’ve had before. Definitely reccomended!
very good.

Charlotte
#5. June 11th, 2007, at 7:44 PM.

This was really good. It was simple to use, quick and did what it’s meant to.

Mandy
#6. June 15th, 2007, at 11:34 AM.

Will not work on Windows Vista..

the rippa
#7. June 19th, 2007, at 10:01 AM.

Man this thing is a scam it filled my comp up with spyware and keeps asking me for my creditcard detalis every time i log on

ab
#8. June 25th, 2007, at 4:03 PM.

Where is another download link?

lavie
#9. July 5th, 2007, at 8:58 PM.

Seems to be a nice program, except that it keeps giving me an unexpected error and shutting down whenever I select a particular DVD that I am very intent on ripping to my portable. Granted, it is a Japanese DVD, which may or may not be the problem.

thomas tischlerhomas tischler
#10. July 8th, 2007, at 2:30 PM.

Loaded version 2.25 onto my XP. Crashes as soon as I open a DVD. Send a message to Microsoft window pops up.

taylor
#11. July 8th, 2007, at 10:12 PM.

how do you get it onto your ipod
i cant find the movie now that i ripped it

hayden
#12. July 9th, 2007, at 1:26 PM.

Yeah this program makes no sense. It doesn’t like my frame rate or something: “input and output frame rate not equal”. And when it did work I could not find where the file had gone. Others have clearly had luck but it doesn’t work for me…

John
#13. July 19th, 2007, at 1:29 AM.

Installed it on vista. Works fine but if I try and convert to divx I get 4:3 screen ration with the sides of the video cut off no matter what setting I put the Zoom on. Pitty as I was looking for a DVD to divx converter for Vista. Wish there was a way for someone to help me as I dont know if I’m doing it right.

Bob (from Israel)
#15. July 24th, 2007, at 5:29 AM.

Hello all!
This is a great program.
I’ve looked for a program to do what I wanted and it did!

It took me a while to find this program but I am so happy right now!

Thank you!

Jeremy
#16. August 1st, 2007, at 7:50 AM.

When i start encoding the disk drive sounds like it is trying to eat my DVD! i have used other rippers and they have the same sound as if the DVD was playing..

Kevin
#17. August 1st, 2007, at 4:52 PM.

I don’t understand how this works either. Input and output frame rate not equal? How do I fix that? I can’t even rip a certain part of a movie because when I start encoding, it goes to the beginning of the film. I dunno. I need help with this.

M. Gonzales
#18. August 2nd, 2007, at 6:44 PM.

This is probably the best free ripping program out there. It produces great quality videos from Dvds and changes aspect ratios — wow. Great that it also encodes to Mpeg 4

Mr. H.
#19. August 3rd, 2007, at 5:03 AM.

Argh… This is quite frustrating. The readme file tells me to find the folder in which the .IFO files are located, and I can’t seem to find that. Any suggestions?

Debraose27
#20. August 5th, 2007, at 9:50 AM.

What a confusing prog ripped 1 dvd to my computer and converted to use on my Zen vision took a long time to find where but surprise it worked,however it hides all further ripped dvd’s and I can’t find them anywhere on my compute,so trying other software.Debraose27

Lila
#21. August 5th, 2007, at 9:27 PM.

I feel like an idiot. I have ripped CDs with several programs and was hoping ripping DVDs would be similar, but I keep getting error messages with this and can’t figure it out at all

Elf Wizard
#22. August 6th, 2007, at 11:40 AM.

Very effective and amazing easy to use! Default settings are OK, if someone don’t want to deal with its settings.

chris1909
#23. August 6th, 2007, at 6:19 PM.

works well simple to use and free make sure you change name each time under select destination

chaosriders
#24. August 7th, 2007, at 1:10 AM.

works great with mine windows vista, easy setting, i love how you can do a ripping test before rip.

Harrison
#25. August 7th, 2007, at 2:46 PM.

It takes my DvD files to C:/ that’s probably what it’s doing for most of you.

Trikemailer
#26. August 12th, 2007, at 3:05 PM.

Great prog. dead easy to use… just set the Output Folder & the file format, insert a disk and click “Start Encoding”. Runs on Vista with no issues that I can see.

Jonathan
#27. August 13th, 2007, at 6:03 PM.

The program worked great on a Dvd that i ripped the first time, but on a Disney Dvd, it wouldn’t rip, it yold me that an error had occured and asked me to send the error report. I beleive this has something to do with a copyright issue though.

Edwin
#28. August 19th, 2007, at 12:55 AM.

Kevin,

If you’re ripping a segment, you need to click on ‘segment’ and enter the ‘begin’ and ‘end’ time. So you need to preview and log the time of the segment you will be ripping.

sucked
#29. August 25th, 2007, at 2:15 PM.

This program sucks!!…THE gui can even display properly and mess up..
i can’t even see the PINK color “Start encoding”

Link
#30. August 28th, 2007, at 8:06 AM.

the link doesn’t work

Grodd
#31. August 28th, 2007, at 2:57 PM.

works now

andjiahi
#32. August 29th, 2007, at 7:35 PM.

This is a horrible dvd ripper. It does rip your dvds onto your computer, but the DVD never sounds right after that. The sound FX are too loud and the voices echo and you can barely hear them! It is a horrible product. Don’t waste a DVD like I did!!!

steven
#33. August 30th, 2007, at 12:16 PM.

subtitle, how about subtitle?
can I rip subtitle as well ?

Wigglestheholy
#34. August 31st, 2007, at 3:16 PM.

Man there are some real smart ones on here. You can re-assign the area you want to save the file to, it is right above the encode button OUTPUT FOLDER if you didn’t specify one just go your c:/programs and find the programs file there you will find your file. And you have to adjust settings its just something you have to do. Do you expect everything to be handed out on a silver platter? The PROGRAM IS FREE if you want absolute perfection spend 40 bucks on another program.Newb

Tyler
#35. September 5th, 2007, at 12:27 PM.

It’s crap. No wonder it’s free. I can figure some of it out, but it still isn’t doing what I want, plus the ripped video has patches where it skips or stalls on one spot. Could be my machine, but I think this thing has issues. It’ll only work for just the right people, apparently.
And if you don’t change the file name and location, they rip to C:/, they don’t disappear
Try doing a search on your files to find something if you lose it.

Norma
#36. September 14th, 2007, at 4:44 AM.

Downloaded and got it going on Vista Home Premium. Going ok except that I cannot get MPEG 4 output going. It saves the file as AVI even though I have it set up as MPEG4 output. In the output directories it will only let me update the path. I keyed in a file name say file.mp4 but still only get file.avi output. Both the output files display in the output file selection pop up so once I have keyed file.mp4 it looks like it is going to save two files – file.avi and file.mp4 and only creates file.avi – anyone else with a similar prob?

sean
#37. September 19th, 2007, at 5:04 AM.

What the heck, does anybody now the reason why this stupid program seems to freeze when the installation hits “creating desktop shortcut” I waited for awhile but the installation wouldn’t complete, so I exited out of installation but the icon was on my desktop without the installation ever completing. I don’t want to use the program if it didn’t install right. Therefore I can’t unistall this piece of you know what program.

Anand
#38. September 27th, 2007, at 4:55 AM.

Excellent download. Amazing.

Terramir
#39. October 9th, 2007, at 10:49 AM.

If you can get this to stay open without crashing in xpsp2 your doing better than me!

b.gates.comp.amer
#40. October 10th, 2007, at 7:37 PM.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS PROGRAM. It is absolutely horrible. It ruins DVD’s and messes up your computers hard drive. If you value your computer or anything on it do not touch this program or maybe i should say virus.

soulstice
#41. October 18th, 2007, at 10:25 AM.

ok… i downloaded this, and i guess the install messed up. i saw some one posted a problem with not even seeing the “start encoding” button. same problem here. also, it looks like the buttons have duplicates overlapping other buttons, and the text boxes cover up the video playback window. played around with the aspect ratio, and recorded the whole movie as one segment. turns out the result was the best rip of a movie that i have. sound and video qualities a 10. if i could get this thing to install to look like the picture, i’d be in love. also, it said that it ripped it fast, but i could only get it to rip in real time.

james c
#42. October 23rd, 2007, at 11:18 AM.

Error message while installing: clicked “Ignore” and it installed properly (windows xp home sp2). Very user friendly. If you want a bigger output you must enter dimensions int Settings > Output settings. Would reccomend.

Annoyed
#43. October 25th, 2007, at 7:03 PM.

Okay. So I downloaded it, installed it, and opened it. Why will it not recognize I HAVE a dvd in the disc drive? and why will it do NOTHING except sit there and annoy me? I thought this would be a cool program…and now I am not liking it. Over all it’s fucked.

stavna
#44. October 29th, 2007, at 10:18 AM.

great program, especially at the price point (or lack of). most dvd rippers cut colour reproduction massively, but this one works fine. dont be worried all you creative zen owners

WidyaRedana
#45. November 2nd, 2007, at 6:57 AM.

I think I can back up my DVD now

Tracie
#46. November 8th, 2007, at 11:12 AM.

I need help, every time i try to use this, it tells me no ifo found. I used it once, closed out of it and now it won’t come up on the screen. Worked great the first time. It shows up on the bar at the bottom, and when i look at the task manager, it shows it running, but won’t show on the screen. Help!

BobR
#47. November 9th, 2007, at 1:45 AM.

Not bad at all. Easy to use, and of course free. The only drawback is a slight blurring during movement, but it’s not a big problem for me.

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#48. November 9th, 2007, at 8:01 AM.

if your having problems get a new computer.
no problems work 100% for me.

MikeW
#49. November 13th, 2007, at 6:01 PM.

Great ripper for experienced users who understand what ripping DVDs actually involves… and those who need absolute control/flexibility of conversion/output options. If you don’t understand video formats, codecs, frame rates, aspect ratios, and the hundreds of options/settings available, don’t bother with this. You’ll just be confused and wind up complaining that it doesn’t work. It *does* work, and it works fantastically well IF you know what you’re doing. Cheers! Nice work. (and Thanks!)

Nzinga
#50. November 15th, 2007, at 2:17 AM.

Okay – this is my first forray into DVD ripping, and I found this one seems to work well in terms of getting the dvd to my hard drive. however, it places a big section of green text on the screen of the movie file describing the audio track, the bitrate, etc. i’m sure it’s somewhere in the settings to remove it, but I can’t figure it out. can someone help, PLEASE??? Thanks!

Joey
#51. November 24th, 2007, at 9:36 PM.

can someone please guide me to a program of some way to use this program to where i can insert a DVD and rip the movie from it to my computer

Kieren
#52. November 25th, 2007, at 12:47 AM.

This is GREAT! I recommend it. However, the second time I used it, Windows showed me the ‘This program has encountered a problem and needs to close’ box. Apart from that. it’s AWESOME.

GlAyA 4 U(“G”)
#53. November 27th, 2007, at 7:37 PM.

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XFactor
#54. December 1st, 2007, at 10:43 AM.

Check Out Magic DVD Ripper

keldog09
#55. December 1st, 2007, at 5:25 PM.

I’m sure this works for people with more expierence, but I’m having a lot of issues with AVI (DivX format). I tried to make it a MPEG but the error continued. Please help.

IBW
#56. December 7th, 2007, at 5:07 PM.

I had checked out several downloads costing up to $45, and I read the reviews before trying Free-DVD. Not sure why others had problems, but this has been the best in my new experience with ripping and conversion. Easy, intuitive, and flexible. The “frame rate not equal” prompts come up, but it seems to be simply alerting to adjustments that it makes, and I’ve seen no indications of hidden or bothersome spyware. My main projects are taking previous DVDs including my own DVD+Rs and converting them to usable files for simple Windows Movie Maker editing and online uploads. Most of the other ripper/converters had problems recognizing titles for various DVDRs and then providing a usable list from which to draw from. Free-DVD not only read them easily (as an IFO file), but it gave an understandable listing, provided easy segmenting of desired clips, and gave constant progress indications. Nothing else I found would do that. I uninstalled the rest and would recommend this program to anyone.

icecristal
#57. December 7th, 2007, at 8:01 PM.

First rip, works great. Get a little educated on digital video people, it’s not a no-brainer and the app does not intend to teach you. Also there’s no spyware on this app and it doesn’t ask you for your credit card.

ed
#58. December 11th, 2007, at 1:18 PM.

This product work’s great, and DOSE work on Vista.

David
#59. December 12th, 2007, at 4:02 AM.

This program only converts to .avi files for me. not happy cannot get to convert to mpeg4. Program sucks

Roger L. Main
#60. December 14th, 2007, at 5:51 PM.

So far so good. I saw two comments that I thought were problems too but there are solutions. 1) Can’t find the video once encoded – there is an option on the main window (what’s your problem? are you blind?) that says: “Output Folder” which is a bit misleading because it does ask you to specify an actual file name. The other comment (which I thought was a problem) concerns the message: “frame rate not equal.” It took me a moment or two to work this out – to change this setting you actually need to look at the Input Settings (under the Settings Menu) – I agree that this is counterintuitive, but it’s there and It seems to default to PAL frame rate. In North America you need to change this to NTSC (29.97 FPS). I’m ripping now and I’ll let you all know how it goes, but after testing several products this seems to be the easiest. I agree with post #50 – If you don’t know about codecs, frame rates, video standards, etc, then do some research first. It makes a lot more sense when yoyu know about these things.

Roger L. Main
#61. December 14th, 2007, at 6:20 PM.

OK. DVD ripped with no problems. Those people on this board bitching about this product of full of it. No spyware (so far – if I come across any believe me, you’ll hear about it) and no crashes. I suggest that if you’re having problems with this product then look for the cause somewhere else because this did exactly what I wanted with no problems whatsoever.

And, incidently, if you’re thinking that I’m an agent for the company then you’re wrong. I have absolutely no affiliation with the producers of this – I don’t know any of them and never even heard of this program before I did a google search for a free dvd ripper. I just hate to see a good product get bagged because the users are incompetent (or stupid).

moon man
#62. December 16th, 2007, at 3:31 AM.

Works great and works on Vista. You have to know how to use a dvd ripper.

mr. drew
#63. December 18th, 2007, at 8:38 PM.

This does in fact work and I support the use of this product. Works fine for me!

Joel
#64. December 19th, 2007, at 1:26 PM.

This program works like a treat, great stuff… thanx alot.

alohff hitler
#65. December 24th, 2007, at 10:00 PM.

this dvd ripper sucks..it awfull…. i hate it …..dont even think about cliking that downlod button ….. get off this web site and download magic dvd ripper

Robert
#66. December 26th, 2007, at 3:19 PM.

for those of you who can find where the file went you have to change the output folder teh files you have ripped have gone into the program file for the free dvd ripper

Christopher
#67. December 29th, 2007, at 7:43 PM.

hey can i use this program to convert the dvd into a cd like take the song from the dvd and just burn the music on a cd so i can just listen to the music instead of watching the dvd????

Jake
#68. December 30th, 2007, at 2:32 AM.

I kind of expected the sound to go ALONG with the movie and not fall be hind so it looks like its lagging how do i fix that?

jonathan
#69. December 30th, 2007, at 6:02 AM.

According to the README file, this program has been made by NeSoft
(http://www.nesoft.org). What it really surprised me is that there is no
mention of FreeDVDRipper anywhere on that website. Could it be that this
program contain some malicious/spyware code?

josh
#70. December 30th, 2007, at 8:55 PM.

this thing sucks……it doesnt work and is probably spam or something…..i odnt suggest you download it, it might just be the movie that i want to download, but i doubt it.

Ricky
#71. December 31st, 2007, at 4:10 AM.

Great program! I’ve been looking for a good free DVD ripper for a long time and I’m glad I found this before I just gave in and bought one. Works like a charm! It might be helpful if they put a “How-To” guide on here for those who don’t know how to use it.

themanisbad00
#72. January 1st, 2008, at 2:33 AM.

I think it’s a great program but, it took me a while to find a program that would be a loophole when it says cannot read a certain file. All you have to do is download DVD43!!! What it does is it unlocks the protection on the DVD and lets you use whatever program to rip it, such as this.

ppplll000999
#73. January 3rd, 2008, at 2:38 AM.

This is a very good FREE program! I am not too computer-smart and yet I already am using it within 15 mins. Following Roger Main’s pointer, I put output to NTSC & I have not problem at all on running it.
Thank You for such good freeware.

CHris
#74. January 4th, 2008, at 1:14 PM.

I found the ripper to work very well the first time I ran it. did have problems finding IFO files after the first rip and so have to reinstall each time I use it but I run Vista home premium which is most likely the problem. I have encountered worse problems with other programs before. for those who experience lag, try using a different player, I found lag on an AVI my friend sent me when using mediaplayer and so watched it on DIVX player. Worked fine.

RUSH-kid
#75. January 4th, 2008, at 2:39 PM.

This is a great easy to use program!!!…a quick download and install.
Works great, and does what it says…i have no problems (using XP) it does take a while to rip a dvd but of course they hold gigs of video. you can select what part of the dvd you want (such as a single song from a concert dvd)…works great!!!!!…download it now!

Derrick
#76. January 7th, 2008, at 10:43 PM.

Awesome! What more could you want from a completely free program. if you cant figure out where it is saving you videos, click file/destination. it usually saves in C:

Emily
#77. January 19th, 2008, at 9:19 PM.

Program worked great. For the problem with letterbox and distortion – under Settings -> Input Settings select Full instead of Letterbox. For the problem with input/output frames not matching, in the same settings menu select “Output Frames” to match input. If you don’t know the frames per second of the input, try one of the other two standard speeds (PAL or NTSC), as most DVDs are in one of those standards. To select the output location, press “Output folder” and then press “Browse” on the window that pops up. This will give you a “Save As…” dialog and you can choose the location.

Mr. Paul
#78. January 19th, 2008, at 10:10 PM.

No Complaints from me!

First DVD I inserted took 1 hour 45 minutes to convert to AVI and was flawless.

I recommend this product to anyone who wants a simple interface, multi-format output DVD ripper.

Joel
#79. January 22nd, 2008, at 11:18 AM.

I said this program was great and worked fine earlier, now all of a sudden the quality of the ripps im getting are terrible.

Have no idea what happened.

BiLL
#80. February 3rd, 2008, at 9:34 PM.

Program out of date before I downloaded it, no idea if it even worked

dean
#81. February 6th, 2008, at 2:50 PM.

spyware!had it running in the background while on net and it was logging keystrokes!dont trust it!
didnt work that great either!

Andrew
#82. February 9th, 2008, at 6:49 AM.

Waste of time. Doesn’t work. Gives error message every time without fail.

Emily
#83. February 22nd, 2008, at 9:39 PM.

This made NO sense at all! It sucked! It kept telling me the “input output frames were not equal”, then when it started working, it said there were “Too many frame samples.” And I had to change the frame rate, and whoever made this “CLEVER” device didn’t put ANYTHING helpful in the ‘About’ colum.

Kelsey
#84. February 25th, 2008, at 12:02 AM.

I downloaded this and it didn’t work. It kept saying there were all sorts of file errors and such. I don’t recommend this.

Roy
#85. February 28th, 2008, at 3:18 AM.

“Input output frames were not equal” is just a warning. Two clicks to OK it and its gone. I set my output resolution to 1280 x 720, even though I bumped the res up, it still looks good. However, its gonna take over 6 hours to rip, but it will fit my entire widescreen tv perfectly.

Jethro
#86. February 28th, 2008, at 11:45 AM.

Wow, this is a great little program. You know, I’ve been looking for a program like this for a long while. Haven’t had any problems with it. Keep up the good work!

Jeff
#87. February 28th, 2008, at 6:30 PM.

Um…is there some reason why it keeps stopping after 1 minute?? What’s the deal?

Earl W. Edinburgh
#88. February 29th, 2008, at 1:31 AM.

Tried to download program. It stopped before it was complete. Now I cannot delete it code 5, corrupt file. Now what??

Josh
#89. February 29th, 2008, at 1:02 PM.

Does anyone have any other recommendations? This program blows.

James
#91. March 4th, 2008, at 2:22 AM.

Is this legit?

Ally
#92. March 12th, 2008, at 7:21 AM.

Great program – easy to use BUT for some reason there’s no sound?!

What am I doing wrong as I can’t find a help file for this program!

James
#93. March 12th, 2008, at 10:09 AM.

Bitrate is spelled “Bitarte” on the bottom section.
needs spelling check

PunkGuitarplya
#94. March 13th, 2008, at 1:45 AM.

You Idiots whi can’t work your computers need to go get a DUMBED DOWN MAC!!! This program is what i think VERY user friendly.
If your having problems with finding your ripped DVD Movies save them to a diffrent folderthat YOU WILL REMEMBER. (DUH!!!) If you dont know your computer good enough to look in a pre-made folder on the C:// drive or at least search for the file nave your a real NOOB AT COMPUTERS! I’ve used this program on my newly bought Voodo computer and this program runs like a star!! No problems AT ALL! I’vew been riping full lengthed DVDs onto my Zune and i Have not experenced any… Screen issues, sound problems or failures, and the only whining i’ve heard is from you guys who cant spot a good program! Also NO spam at all!!!

Joel
#95. March 14th, 2008, at 12:32 PM.

ALERT: This is NOT FREE!!! After installing, it popped up a message telling me it’s 30-day trial, and I need to register.

IT IS NOT FREE!! There is false advertising going on here. UNACCEPTABLE!!

lady spencer
#96. March 17th, 2008, at 12:06 AM.

the files are saved to c:\ConvertedFiles . Most filetypes i try to convert tell me that “codec not found”. is this fixable?

Pissed Off Downloader
#97. March 17th, 2008, at 1:05 AM.

anyone else know why this piece of shit closes right away while trying to load a DVD?

Simone
#98. March 18th, 2008, at 12:15 PM.

Could someone explain please why it’s called “free”? My one says “Unregistered version, 30 days remain.” Doesn’t this mean I have only thirty days before I use it and have to pay???

postman007
#99. March 22nd, 2008, at 7:10 PM.

People who publish this not-a-freeware are loosers. Don’t even think about downloading it!

Craig
#100. March 27th, 2008, at 6:15 PM.

This has been “Opening DVD file” for about 2 hours now?
Is this just useless?

works with eveything but futurama and simpsons
#101. March 27th, 2008, at 7:39 PM.

this is the only dvd ripper i found that ripps the whole movie or tv show for free, but i cant get it to rip futurama very well it stops a minute before the end of the show and the sound skips is there some setting i could set to fix this problem?

for the person two up from me:
I’ve had my free dvd ripper for 4 or 5 months now and it hasn’t asked me to buy it, and i’ve never had that unregistered pop-up.

works with eveything but futurama and simpsons
#102. March 27th, 2008, at 7:51 PM.

i just got the new version and i got that 30 day pop-up you were right about that!
sorry about the confusion

mike
#103. March 27th, 2008, at 10:35 PM.

what happens when the 30 days are up im a bit worried ill woll automatically be charged but i only had it in for a day and uninstalled it….what will happen?

bimplebean
#104. March 29th, 2008, at 7:47 PM.

THIS ISN’T FREE. I took the time to download, install and use it. Turns out not only is it a 30 day evaluation program, but it only rips video to 3gp. There are many other output formats, but none of them are selectable.

Thanks for wasting half an hour of my time.

m
#105. March 31st, 2008, at 2:41 AM.

thanks!

Gina
#107. April 2nd, 2008, at 4:38 AM.

okay ppl make up ur mind was it great or did it suck

FW
#108. April 2nd, 2008, at 11:13 PM.

This app won’t even start – got error about missing driver.

I wouldn’t recommend it. Also doesn’t show up in add/remove programs.

Rie
#109. April 3rd, 2008, at 10:09 PM.

Very misleading. This program is not free.

User
#110. April 6th, 2008, at 10:56 PM.

This ISN’T FREE!

Zbysior
#112. April 7th, 2008, at 11:10 PM.

this is not “free” dvdripper. 30 days evaluation shareware.
missing driver error
not recommended

Mr. Smartguythatdoesntfallforscams
#113. April 11th, 2008, at 10:04 PM.

ok this thing is obviously a scam. ppl that say “Oh my gosh, it is great! The best one out there! This rules – WOW!” are just ppl from the company, ppl that were told to put that, or the guy that MADE THE SOFTWARE! i will never download this stinky piece of dog shit because in earlier comments, they said it doesnt appear in Add/Remove programs. its obviously crap and a total scam and i suggest you dont bother with the free ones because they have spyware that take up your computer.

Kenny H
#114. April 12th, 2008, at 6:57 PM.

Definitely NOT free. Trial version only. Does not rip all formats and has audio lag problems and video jumps/stalls at times. Tried many different settings and still have the same problems. My computer is only a couple months old so don’t even try to blame it on that. I’ve used other dvd rippers before and most of the “free” ones are crap. They are almost all limited TRIAL versions that constantly ask you to upgrade them. Best free dvd ripper I’ve found so far is BITRIPPER. Just google it. I’ll tell you this much here and now, it works on most dvd’s and if you want ease of use, it doesn’t get much easier than BITRIPPER! Oh… The best part of all: BITRIPPER is TOTALLY FREE! No ads, no spyware, no viruses!

yddet
#116. April 24th, 2008, at 9:17 PM.

To Norma (#37) I have had the same problem with trying to save as mp4 but getting avi instead. I have xp home edition

Zuhdija
#117. April 26th, 2008, at 6:27 PM.

Some people are too lazy, ignorant or plain stupid for this great util.
I recommend it and yes it works on Vista for me too. It’s free and it works.
Those of you who think that a comuter is smarter than you deserve the problems
you have.

des72
#119. May 3rd, 2008, at 12:14 PM.

Can’t seems to rip DVD to MP4 format? even the MPEG4 format chosen, the output file is in .avi format. Need help to output to MP4. thanks!

Jessica
#120. June 4th, 2008, at 2:13 AM.

Hey, this is a really great program, but only recently I’ve been having trouble. The last two DVDs I’ve ripped were distorted and wavy, yet the others came out perfectly and I don’t think I’ve changed the settings whatsoever. Can anyone help?

Heather
#121. June 15th, 2008, at 3:21 AM.

Wow, it is so fast to download! And it works so good! And to those of you having trouble finding the files you’ve encoded… alrighty heres my advice. Click ‘output folder’ before you start encoding. Pick a folder in ‘browse’ that you want to put it in and name it. THEN you click start encoding… and click stop when you’ve finished the section you want saved. Once it’s stopped it will save. Anyhoo, so far so good for me… hallelujah!

Heather
#122. June 15th, 2008, at 10:36 PM.

Maybe I spoke to soon, I was excited… is it to good to be true? I think so… after reading a bunch of your comments saying it contained spyware I ran a a virus scan using Sophos anti-virus. It detected a Trojan bug, which you usually get from ads saying ‘free ringtone’ or ‘free screensavers’. A Trojan virus IS spyware and is used to corrupt files or get into hidden files on your computer etc. I am a bit reluctant to uninstall because it does work, but I’d rather pay $45 for a reliable one that won’t cause me any trouble then have a free one full of viruses. I’m sure you’d agree. Plus, look at the advertisements and crap on this website. Hmmm… I should have looked a bit more carefully.

Sivart
#123. June 16th, 2008, at 12:22 AM.

don’t know have not used it yet

katmack
#126. June 19th, 2008, at 7:03 PM.

Download of version 2.25 successful, converted my video. but now i can’t find the file???? where is it saved????
HELP!!!

X-Bumble
#127. June 20th, 2008, at 9:46 PM.

This won’t install correctly on Vista, so don’t waste your bandwidth downloading it if you have it.

susan
#128. June 21st, 2008, at 5:23 PM.

I am having problems with sound going in and out on a couple ripped dvds. i also had problems with the video and audio out of sync on one ripped dvd. anyone have any solutions???

Verna.a
#129. June 28th, 2008, at 8:53 PM.

I managed to figure this out. Plain English is lacking! My first rip was successful but not the resolution I wanted however I found how to alter it. Ripping was surprisingly fast. Pleased overall.

Edward
#130. July 1st, 2008, at 4:21 PM.

Although I chose mpeg-4 in the output settings, I only got an AVI output file. How can I get a mp4 file?

jamel crawford
#131. July 4th, 2008, at 10:48 AM.

is not bad

Xml
#132. July 5th, 2008, at 8:33 AM.

I’ve tried this Free DVD Ripper on my 6mth old Vista PC and concluded that it does work. Installation was a breeze. And so far, I’ve had no spams nor pop-ups that I can find. However, compared to Magic DVD Ripper, the DVD quality generated by Free DVD Ripper is worse, while its file size is approx 33% bigger. The rip time is dependent on my settings on Free DVD Ripper, with Magic DVD Ripper consistently taking ~90% of real time, while Free DVD Ripper running anywhere from 67% to 200+% of real time (I actually gave up, so don’t know how much longer it would take to finish ripping.) Also, thus far, like other posts, I cannot make Free DVD Ripper to rip into MP4 file, no matter my settings – it always gave me AVI file. I was very happy and would have stayed with Magic DVD Ripper, except that my trial period ran out & I haven’t yet decided to pay the $40 cost, opting to check out other free rippers before deciding. I also found that, on certain settings, when playing 2 of the same movies side by side, the one ripped from Free DVD Ripper would run slower, or skipped, or getting wavy. I’m still experimenting with Free DVD Ripper and will post further results, along with steps that I’d taken to run this software, hopefully, to help out those who’s having trouble running this product.

dominoes2009
#133. July 19th, 2008, at 11:18 PM.

Can you burn movies to a disc with this program?
Can you then watch the movie on the disc on a dvd player?
That would be awesome!

Edward
#134. July 27th, 2008, at 7:39 AM.

Xml,

Thanks to sharing your experience. Look forward to your further postings!

devil-fish
#135. August 1st, 2008, at 3:02 PM.

i will try but dous it copy the whole film?

Mikey
#136. August 10th, 2008, at 7:16 AM.

Not the right program for me. Will find something else besides this piece of junk!

jason
#137. August 14th, 2008, at 2:08 PM.

doesn,t work on vista

Jack
#138. August 14th, 2008, at 3:11 PM.

I downloded it easil, but once I tried to open a vidio, it said that it wasn’t working! what’s the deal with that?

bunny
#139. August 27th, 2008, at 9:59 PM.

i tried using the software program but it’s telling me that my E: drive or the dvd drive is either locked or can not be founded. how do i go about fixing this problem? thanks

jerry fox
#140. September 4th, 2008, at 4:04 PM.

down loaded… it complained about frame rate, no fooling around worked. deleted. is this a hoax?

Ok program
#141. September 11th, 2008, at 3:24 AM.

omg this program is soo messed up, im tryin to make a video for my school project and i need to cut and trim it but his doent i=even open the video, GOD im soooo frustrated =(

Andrew
#142. September 13th, 2008, at 12:50 PM.

Avoid!

Greenman
#143. September 14th, 2008, at 3:48 PM.

Was very good but somehow expired. It never said it would do this as I found it excellent for my DVD copies from video but now it says update it which keeps failing each time you click on it, so my advice to the maker of this is PLEASE update it and put it out soon.

Jade
#144. September 15th, 2008, at 9:04 AM.

For those confused by this article:

What happened is that, when this article was written it was about the OLD version of Free DVD Ripper which was free, worked very well and was loved. The developers then got money-hungry and replaced the Free DVD Ripper with a version that was not free or as good quality. The earlier comments are all people who had the old version of Free DVD Ripper — the latter, obviously, are the poor people like myself stuck with the new version.

Spacesuit105
#145. September 16th, 2008, at 12:04 PM.

Ok, so ima beginner when it comes to all this dvd ripping stuff. Can they at least take the time to make a guide so people wont complain about this program. I have faith that it will work, i just dont know how to use it. Right now im trying to get the movie elf on my sons PSP and i know how to convert and all but just not rip.

david
#146. September 16th, 2008, at 10:36 PM.

Great wee program and easy to use, but when something is free it should be free. Nothing worse than sticking a program on your pc that runs out, so when you delete it, it leaves files on your drive like all free stuff does.You could have at least told us it would exspire or stuck up a paypal (:-(

shame it does what it says on the tin, you had something and now all you have are p####d off clients.

Matt
#147. September 17th, 2008, at 4:56 PM.

I can’t get it to work at all, very frustrating

Jack
#148. September 19th, 2008, at 9:00 AM.

Positive feedback! 4/5 stars!
Works on vista
Easy to use
Not as fast though, but i dont expect it to be
free! unlike other dvd rippers

TAKE MY WORD, IT IS HARD TO FIND SOMETHING THIS EASY!

EFC pete
#149. September 21st, 2008, at 8:25 AM.

“katmack
#151. June 19th, 2008, at 7:03 PM.

Download of version 2.25 successful, converted my video. but now i can’t find the file???? where is it saved????
HELP!!!”

not to pick on you since loads of people are having similar problems but, you people need to pay attention to what you are doing not just point and click.

anyways on the, open the program on the right hand side underneath the word volume it says output folder and there will be a box that shows what it is. copy that address into the address bar on your my computer screen just like a web address. i don’t know what the default setting is since i changed mine but if you haven’t changed it, it will still be displayed. next time specify your directory and don’t just run by default.

Lock Cole
#150. September 21st, 2008, at 11:46 PM.

It is great. Easy to use and with good quality. Highly recommended~!

Mo
#151. September 23rd, 2008, at 12:18 PM.

WOW!! the authors of this website are a blessing on us all! u pps rock! save ma ass many a time and made ma iTouch a much more happy place!

Patrick
#152. September 24th, 2008, at 9:24 PM.

IF IT SAYS INPUT AND OUTPUT FRAME RATE NOT SAME (or something like that) JUST KEEP PRESSING THE OK(or “yes”) BUTTON REPEATEDLY. IT WILL NOW ENCODE YOUR DVD!

ben
#153. September 28th, 2008, at 11:59 AM.

This is really good software, dont know why people buy things exactly like this for like $100….

10/10 from me!

Nikki
#154. October 3rd, 2008, at 10:02 PM.

Well I managed to rip my DV well enough (it took forever though, pratically real time) but I can’t seem to get an MPEG4 output for some reason. Even though I set the output on MPEG4, I just get an .avi file. While this a good program when your getting it for free, I really just downloaded this to rip DVDs to put on my ipod… and I can’t do that with an .avi file.

dj
#155. October 4th, 2008, at 5:59 PM.

when you chose browse, only give a filename, do not give it an extention;

video

not

video.avi

or

video.mpeg

and then

chouse MPEG4 as format.

lee
#156. October 5th, 2008, at 8:28 AM.

Hey how do i add subtitles to my movie that i’m ripping?

JOHN DOE
#157. October 6th, 2008, at 2:21 AM.

YO, IF YOUR COMPUTER IS DECKED AND NO VIRUS… THIS PROG WORX GREAT TAKES A MIN TO DECODE BUT WORKS LIKE A CHARM ANY PIRATES DREAM

jimmy bob
#158. October 10th, 2008, at 10:00 AM.

Thanks a tonne! I have downloaded six others and all only gave me a five minute trial although on the website it said its free! thanks

j
#159. October 12th, 2008, at 2:16 PM.

great program. only problem is subtitles..

ppplll000999
#160. October 17th, 2008, at 6:42 AM.

Let’s PUT THE RECORD STRAIGHT ONCE & FOR ALL FOR THE READERS! THIS IS NOT FREE. IT WILL EXPIRE AFTER AWHILE!

mscomms
#161. October 19th, 2008, at 7:50 PM.

avi = MPEG4

goingbigger
#162. October 27th, 2008, at 9:20 PM.

This an excellent encoder, worked better than one I bought a while ago. Cheers!

Aj
#163. November 2nd, 2008, at 8:37 PM.

This is good software, though, I find that recording it from a DVD player into Pinnacle Studio is much better.

ArpaKid
#164. November 13th, 2008, at 12:22 PM.

Ignore the mouth-breathers and educate yourself on digital video (swap drives and codecs help) and make sure your computer is in clean and working order.
This app works fine and is virus and spyware free.
[b]
I hate neophytes who complain and lie.
May they infect themselves with trojans and viruses until they no longer litter our internet like the trash that they are.
[b]

Jesse
#165. November 20th, 2008, at 3:55 AM.

worthless…. tried for hours to get it to work. tried magic dvd ripper worked like a charm. peace o crap!!!!!!

Paige
#166. November 25th, 2008, at 3:57 AM.

This program sucks…all I get are error messages and then it doesnt respond…was hoping this one would actually work, but no luck

Kurt Brenner
#167. November 26th, 2008, at 10:13 AM.

Thanks you ! !

OPTiC BURST
#168. December 4th, 2008, at 7:08 PM.

I still have my old copy of DVDXCOPY and still works great for me. No need to try new and foreign software…

Ant
#169. December 4th, 2008, at 7:42 PM.

This is not a scam….the program worked great for me. Extremely easy to use, but wish it had more customization options. Try it, if you don’t like it-uninstall

quigglebert
#170. December 9th, 2008, at 1:07 AM.

i have no problem with this software, it did not work for me however this is because i have not used programmes like this before, try it if you dont like it dont use it and give your reasons why, i like the principle of the software but not the complexity

Jen
#171. December 10th, 2008, at 2:45 AM.

if it doesn’t work for u, than maybe u’re doing something wrong. double check ur settings.

this worked perfectly fine for me. im so glad i found this software. i recommend it to anyone; really easy to use. give it a shot.

Ripper
#172. December 15th, 2008, at 6:01 PM.

The best Program i could found…

Dave
#173. December 24th, 2008, at 3:58 AM.

A little quirky but the price is right. I’m not having any problems ripping with it on XPSP3. It may not be as simple to use as some of the “Free” DVD rippers I’ve downloaded tonight only to find that the “Free” version gives me a 5 or 15 minute rip, but I’m happy with it. Thanks!

Metal Messiah from Brazil
#174. December 24th, 2008, at 8:31 PM.

well, i liked it. for a free program, it works great with video codec DivX 5.1.1 for video 29,97 fps and lame 192kbps for audio. it created a 800Mb file of a 4gb video. the video and audio are great.

Saki
#175. December 28th, 2008, at 6:12 PM.

It worked well for me, at least this far – ripped quick with the subtitles, so no complaints here.

I did get the input and output frame rate not the same, and it was because in the output settings, it was defaulting to PAL. You might have to change it depending on what disc you put in. I switched to the NTSC and it was fine.

This ripped the whole hour and 20 min movie, so I’m happy with it!

cheapo
#176. December 29th, 2008, at 9:02 PM.

Seems to work good for me on XPSP3 – tried 2 so far and both worked great – can’t complain for the price! always change the output settings and you will know what the file is called and where it is! Seems to convert in about half the time the movie takes to play. All in all a great product!

fred boom
#177. December 29th, 2008, at 9:21 PM.

i hope it works thanks

fred boom
#178. December 29th, 2008, at 9:23 PM.

good job good software and its free

mucau
#179. December 30th, 2008, at 12:47 AM.

Really bogus! Didn’t run at all… I give it a 0!

Tyler
#180. January 1st, 2009, at 7:20 AM.

Worked fine for me. My only question is why does it make it an .avi file when I clearly set it to mp4. I can watch the video fine on my computer, but I want to put it on my Zune which does’t play .avi files.

Wabbitseason
#181. January 1st, 2009, at 3:25 PM.

Although the user interface is a bit weird, the software seems to be working. At the end of the ripping I thought it froze, but it turned out it just wanted to tell me something via a popup, and Windows XP could not bring this popup into focus for some reason.

b-man
#182. January 4th, 2009, at 2:03 AM.

it won’t convert my movies, keeps saying codec error or ifo/dvd not found

madi
#183. January 4th, 2009, at 4:25 AM.

i got this program from my teacher, its called cinemaforge, you can use it to convert. i have an hp using windows vista software, and cinemaforge is amazing. it takes maybe 10 minutes to convert 2 hour dvds but it works. i can now watch them on my ipod. if you can’t find a converter, download this one. its golden

Software Guru
#184. January 7th, 2009, at 4:06 PM.

good job good software and its free

Repoman21
#185. January 9th, 2009, at 1:11 AM.

Program is junk. Error messages, no documentation, won’t load anything. Maybe all these people who say it works don’t live in America, and it’s a region thing? Waste of my time.

kay
#186. January 9th, 2009, at 6:30 PM.

how do you work this thing on Vista!! def not as easy as it looks. problems with input output settings, what? what about something for average Jane

Lyndz
#187. January 16th, 2009, at 12:44 AM.

Like another person mentioned here, I also have problems with this file that shows video and audio out of sync probs, anyone has a solution?, tried getting this program to put in it sync and it does, but somehow when I try converting it to mp4 to put it on my ipod, I either have problems with the format going back to where the problem started or the file not wanting to convert, oh and another thing, this program only rips .avi entensions, no MPEG4

Bryant
#188. January 16th, 2009, at 7:45 AM.

This thing did copy my DVDs but I have some music DVDs that have several chapters and it would only let me copy one chapter at a time. The big kicker is that it didn’t list the chapters in the right order and with out titles so it was a hit or miss if you get the right one. So if you just wanna copy the whole DVD it works but thats about it……Don’t waste your time otherwise……..

LINDER
#189. January 20th, 2009, at 11:18 PM.

I HAD BEEN USING THE FREE DVD RIPPER 2.25 FOR SOME TIME WITH GREAT SUCCESS, NO PROBLEMS AT ALL. RECENTLY WHEN I TRIED TO GET INTO THE PROGRAMME A MESSAGE CAME UP SAYING MY USAGE HAD EXPIRED AND THAT I SHOULD APPLY FOR AN UPDATED VERSION FROM GOBUYSOFTWARE.COM/FREE-DVD-RIPPER.HTML. I HAVE TRIED THIS ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS BUT WITHOUT ANY SUCCESS. I REALLY NEED TO GET BACK INTO THIS PROGRAMME. CAN ANYONE PLEASE ADVISE

Amz
#190. January 24th, 2009, at 12:53 AM.

This is a great program! I absolutely love it. For all of the people that say it messes up your computer, don’t listen. It works great for me.

There’s only one problem, though… whenever I rip one one certain TV series onto my computer, there are really ugly lines when things move… I ripped another DVD and this problem was resolved. Hmm. Wonder why?

compdream
#191. January 26th, 2009, at 11:31 PM.

major scam. freezes wont load, files lost, sends files in tons of locations. warning for beginers if you dont kno how to clean up your computer yuou are in a world of hurt.

lovedit
#192. February 1st, 2009, at 6:52 AM.

i had a problem with the output field also, i did a search on youtube.com putting free dvd ripper 2.25 in the search field , i came across a video that walked me step by step on what i was doing wrong. Im workingit on vista and it works great! i started on my old comp with windows xp , both systems worked fine. for coverting into mp4s , set your itunes account to convert it , i have done this to put them on my ipod and works great.i have seen no spyware with this at all or pop ups , i was and still am really impressed . i do get that error message , but i just click out of it and all my videos are still in great condition when done ripping. i am far from computer savy and find this easy to use , and heck you cant beat free !

M
#193. February 3rd, 2009, at 11:36 PM.

is vista the problem?

i put my dvd in than i press “open DVD” but than the “browse for folder” window pops up

what folder am i browsing for???

Im trying to copy my dvd on to my computer so what folder is it talking about???

just LOAD DAMMIT LOAD!!!!

I CANT BE THE ONLY ONE

lil help?!!!!

Tommeh
#194. February 8th, 2009, at 3:05 PM.

Okay so this is soo awsome and it’s free!

I downloaded a movie on to my creative zen in a hour!

And to all the people who ‘can’t find it’

It usally goes into the C:/ drive by defualt once your in the C:/ my movie was called ‘none’ don’t know why but i hope that helps.

Very pleased

sector78
#195. February 10th, 2009, at 11:52 AM.

This has a major bugs. It doesn’t work on XP home edition right…

sai
#196. February 12th, 2009, at 8:13 PM.

after ripping my dvd the ripped version is blurry during motion. Do I need to change my settings, am i doing something wrong?

Gericom
#197. February 14th, 2009, at 5:41 PM.

DONT SAY THINGS ARE FREE WHEN THEY ARE NOT!!!!!!!!!!! THIS SOFTWARE IS WATERMARKED THEREFORE NOT, I REPEAT NOT FREE!!

gar
#198. February 24th, 2009, at 11:15 PM.

p.o.s. none of my dvds will work with this cunt.

lauren
#199. February 25th, 2009, at 7:56 PM.

not sayin im a geek or nothin but i kno how to work this program. lookin at ur comments i can see alot of u are wonderin where the dvd has gone after u’ve ripped it. well on the program in ‘output settings’ theres a button that says ‘output folder’. here you can decide which folder to put it in and it will be there when it’s done.

quite simple if you ask me : )

Bill
#200. February 26th, 2009, at 3:14 PM.

I’ve got the same problem as comment 214 Can anyone help.

I HAD BEEN USING THE FREE DVD RIPPER 2.25 FOR SOME TIME WITH GREAT SUCCESS, NO PROBLEMS AT ALL. RECENTLY WHEN I TRIED TO GET INTO THE PROGRAMME A MESSAGE CAME UP SAYING MY USAGE HAD EXPIRED AND THAT I SHOULD APPLY FOR AN UPDATED VERSION FROM GOBUYSOFTWARE.COM/FREE-DVD-RIPPER.HTML. I HAVE TRIED THIS ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS BUT WITHOUT ANY SUCCESS. I REALLY NEED TO GET BACK INTO THIS PROGRAMME. CAN ANYONE PLEASE ADVISE

heya
#201. March 1st, 2009, at 7:21 PM.

its a very good ripper, i think the best one i ever used, its easy to handle with and its good quality! nice work!

Jack Casey
#202. March 4th, 2009, at 8:24 AM.

Really easy to use, also auto preview, fast process, and …, dunno what to say.

Allen
#203. March 6th, 2009, at 9:43 PM.

It’s very good program but not like expensive one, I’d like to thank the developer, waiting for better.
Thank you all.

not interested
#204. March 8th, 2009, at 2:59 PM.

thanks for all who left a message…considering the majority are negative, I will not be downloading this product. I wonder if the owner of the product could step up and defend their product????

Christians 4 Christ
#205. March 8th, 2009, at 10:05 PM.

The creator(s) of Free DVD Ripper program is a fraudsters because it’s not freeware, but shareware.

The creator(s) of Free DVD Ripper program do not have any codec installed for any of the displayed video (ripping) formats.

Nicki
#206. March 13th, 2009, at 5:48 PM.

for some reason its telling me i have no video ts file or ifo file? why wont it just read off the dvd?

luke
#207. March 13th, 2009, at 8:15 PM.

were dose it save the ripped files to on your computer because i cannot find them

Noshame187
#208. March 16th, 2009, at 7:55 PM.

Tons of error messages after I Open DVD. Now I know why it’s Free. There’s 10 minutes of my Life I will not get back..Thanks

GzUs
#209. March 17th, 2009, at 11:30 PM.

i have used this program for almost 2 years now and has worked best. i have used many pay for crap. all i do with them is make a Keygen for them and bam its free. but sence i found this one i use it. if you all have probs with it learn about how a dvd works. this is freeware not lazyware. as far as codecs go just use the ace mega codec pack and pick what you want then use this to ripp and to thos who say that the audio is slow get a computer with more balls.

Long Live Freeware!!!!!!!

GzUs

tibbar
#210. March 19th, 2009, at 1:29 AM.

this is the easiest ripper id tried, it really works!!!!

IfYouSeeKay
#211. March 21st, 2009, at 1:56 AM.

I can’t get this POS to work. Confusing error messages, you’d have to be a black-belt computer geek to get this program working.

Edwin
#212. March 27th, 2009, at 7:28 AM.

This program converted only half of a one hour DVD movie into AVI and then gave a message – Too many sample. Change sample rate or change flag on “Detect prog 24Hz.” Even after making the change to the lowest rate of 44.1kHz and unsetting “Detect prog 24Hz”, it did the same thing. I could get only half of the movie converted to AVI. Any solution to this?

John
#213. April 6th, 2009, at 1:02 AM.

Every time I leave the “encode segment” tab, my information is erased and the encoding begins at the start. What’s wrong?

Chip
#214. April 11th, 2009, at 1:25 AM.

Got a bunch of errors and it could not read the ifo files. Did not work for me.

Dan
#215. April 11th, 2009, at 8:34 PM.

I downloaded the program and it worked for the first DVD, now it says it can read from the video Ts

LOTS OF HEADACHES!!!

ash
#217. April 15th, 2009, at 11:24 PM.

does have adware, you have to go back into your “Program Files” folder and completely delete the folder, because it leaves ads behind. it also has quality issues and the audio is slightly out of sync. it is also extremely picky about which dvds it will actually read.

Edwin
#218. April 16th, 2009, at 12:59 AM.

Earlier I had a problem in which only half the DVD was conveted into AVI and then gave a message – Too many sample. Change sample rate or change flag on “Detect prog 24Hz.” I observed that in output setting the default sample rate was 192kbits/s. I increased it to 24kbits/s. And then it was able to convert the entire DVD. However I got a message in the beginning “Warning the output and input frame rate are not equal Pull down (up) will be performed” But the conversion of the whole DVD was performed without problems.
So so far this has been working well.

Jon
#219. April 29th, 2009, at 9:22 PM.

this thing is the worst attempt at making a DVD ripper I’ve ever seen. I record via my DVD player, and each DVD I make costs a good dollar, I’ve wasted a lot of my DVDs trying to get it ripped. As soon as I open up the DVD an unexpected error message pops-up, and does not go away, no matter how many times you exit out. I wind up having to restart my whole computer and get so frustrated at this to the point where I come to a strong 1/10.

this is a joke
#220. May 9th, 2009, at 5:17 PM.

What a joke, endless loop of crapware pages and pop ups.

sam
#221. May 9th, 2009, at 11:50 PM.

rubbish. doesnt work

1DeadBird
#222. May 23rd, 2009, at 12:35 PM.

Hey,

this program is pretty good. though it can be tricky to work out. i found some videos on youtube that helped http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CZaROGBiKk this one was good.

good luck

Matt
#223. May 23rd, 2009, at 9:40 PM.

well…. the pages and popups…dont worry about them…just type in the code to download. wait untill it loads then youll see the full code you wrote..as soon as you press download just save….after that. exit out of the webpage and youll be fine… its exactly what i did.

ape
#224. May 27th, 2009, at 11:27 PM.

i absolutely loved this program…but upon trying to start it up today, it’s now claiming that the ‘trial period’ has expired. there was no trial period…it’s a free dvd ripper….that’s why i used it. now it won’t even start the program…it makes you go and download a different program (with the installation file of freedvdripper.exe) and it’s a completely different, completely worthless program that they want to charge you $30 to use. if the actual free dvd ripper program is available again, i highly recommend it…but this new garbage they’re trying to make you download isn’t worth 30 cents let alone 30 dollars.

me
#225. May 28th, 2009, at 10:47 PM.

I love this program but the site where you download it installs spyware on your pc. you need a better link.

Rodrigo
#226. May 30th, 2009, at 7:13 PM.

GOOD software
if youre wondering about the subtitle
here’s wat u need to do
1.go to seting ( at the top)
2. click input
3 you’ll see subtitle
4. click and select the language
5. click ok

your done just rip it

Arseholes
#227. June 2nd, 2009, at 7:08 PM.

Give the guys a break this is a free piece of software how much development time would YOU spend on a piece of software that wont make you any money?

you want a better ripper..pay for one!

peace

GhoS
#228. July 4th, 2009, at 6:04 PM.

It you need to check out youtube there is a video there showing how easily this program works which 1Deadbird pointed out above.
I agree it could have a help file but it is free after all. I’m finding it works pretty darn good, and not in any is it trailware or anything like that. I’m not sure how some are getting that version.

Tough luck if not working for you.

helge
#229. July 12th, 2009, at 2:15 PM.

What does AVIStreamWrite Failed mean??

jamie tyler
#230. July 14th, 2009, at 10:05 PM.

I like this program but it seems that it don’t give out very good color… everything seems a lot lighter than it should be.

Can anyone help with this? If you can then email me at:
jamietyler_1990@yahoo.com

Please and Thank-you

Montegro
#231. July 28th, 2009, at 8:02 PM.

I used it fine for a while, ripped some of my animes, however for one, the Video was messed up greatly! Then on my 2nd anime the audio was missing half the time, and the video lagged, and for my Third which was from england, it ripped a good hour before saying that there was too much sample and quit out on me! When I tried to tweak the settings to make it work better, the thing crashed, now whenever I try to use it it doesnt even try and just says it has an error. Im using Vista and HAVE tried reinstalling it, no success.

Usama
#232. July 29th, 2009, at 1:27 PM.

Excellent software. Certinly the best DVD Ripper I have seen. Better than any paid software

Peter Manser
#233. August 4th, 2009, at 1:00 AM.

My Trend Micro Internet Security blocks it as a dangerous download. It could be because of the adware that “this is a joke” referred to, or it could be spyware like “me” said

Theo
#234. August 4th, 2009, at 8:34 PM.

auwsome program. easy to use. this is what i was looking for all the time.

kd7
#235. August 6th, 2009, at 4:06 AM.

Works Fine No Probs SLOW THO-_- but free and simple thx

Joseph
#236. August 10th, 2009, at 6:56 AM.

OMG, after fiddling with it for a day, this is a great (FREE) program! Rips better than the software that came with my video card!

Dustin
#237. August 15th, 2009, at 7:57 AM.

Used this program on my PC and it is wicked fast. initally, like a dumbass I downloaded the AVS program, it was a little tricky for me to see which download link was correct.
After getting the right program I did have to fiddle with the settings (frame rate) but after like 30 minutes the rip came out great! and in only 15 minutes for a 45 minute track. good enough quality for my portable DVD player for sure.
I ripped the same track on my mac using hand brake and it took over 90 minutes. nice work dudes!

Dan
#238. September 3rd, 2009, at 4:21 AM.

Moving on to a new DVD ripper…I get the same “Trial Period” messages as a few others have mentioned. And if I try to go to the site it references to, nothing comes up. Either the site is down or has been removed. Perhaps there is a registry edit to turn back the “trial period” clock?

Anyway, thanks Free DVD Ripper for wasting HD space. If you want to install a “free” program just to waste space and eventually uninstall it from your computer, download this one.

TraVis
#239. September 4th, 2009, at 1:45 AM.

i got the program and i cant do any thing its confusing and there is no user guied can i have some help plz anyone

Rabiator
#240. September 9th, 2009, at 10:14 AM.

Crashes when trying to open DVD (Iron Man). This is on the very first attempt to use it.
System is a reasonably up-to-date XP.
Cannot recommend this, sorry.

pollicia
#241. September 24th, 2009, at 6:59 PM.

Bajé como cinco diferentes rippers y éste es el que mejor funciona. Muy buen programa!!

JR
#242. October 15th, 2009, at 11:23 AM.

Complete waste of time and effort. Was uninstalled within five minutes of being installed.

JA
#243. October 31st, 2009, at 2:39 AM.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!!! Bitdefender blocked a TROJAN when I tried to download this!!!!!! BEWARE!!!!!!

Angie
#244. November 1st, 2009, at 8:42 PM.

After I encode a clip,
where do i find that file?

Hayes
#245. November 7th, 2009, at 1:34 PM.

Definately the best free ripper I’ve tested so far. And pretty fast as well. Had a little trouble with the subtitels at first, but it’s explained somewhere in these comments how to do it.

jester
#246. November 9th, 2009, at 2:39 AM.

is to complicated and has to many errors.
first thing i ripped worked fine then wouldnt work anymore

vello
#247. November 10th, 2009, at 12:01 PM.

Works! And that’s the main thing !!

sinh
#248. November 14th, 2009, at 8:29 PM.

To me it work but only shown half size in the middle of screen.i don’t know there was any thing that i did wrong

Tim
#249. November 15th, 2009, at 1:24 PM.

well it works on 64 bit windows… and for people whom cant find the file please tell me you gave it an output name and directory…

anyways im trying it out now looks like its working find

El Mano
#250. November 19th, 2009, at 3:01 AM.

Where can I download the damn thing? None of the links give me the right program, and Support won’t accept my emails.

re
#251. November 22nd, 2009, at 7:57 AM.

the setup doesnt even run.

Mike
#252. December 12th, 2009, at 2:03 PM.

What a scam! It is NOT free at all. It leaves a watermark on your films if you don’t fork out 59 dollars. No thanks – already deleted.

jfarrar
#253. December 17th, 2009, at 2:31 AM.

right have used this program for a few months now and must say am quite pleased with it
come on its a free program a few tips on some problems you may have!!
1.if the program fails to start,try uninstalling and reinstalling it happed to me and this fixed it.
2.some of you may have problems with some disks if it is a new film release it has most prob got copyright protection on the disk and will not let you read it with this program.
3. a way to get around this is to find a copyright protection remover on the internet there are a few around will not put any names on as will probley get told off on here dont know.lol
4.if you get blurry/pixley videos its down to your settings,i myself save the output files as a AVI with a xvid mpeg 4 codec and these still come out a bit blurry/pixlated but as i only use these files to watch on my pc to save me time keep getting them out of the cases when i want to watch them its fine.
5.have a play around with the program!!!!
we all learn by trying and making mistakes its human nature!!!
6.also a little tip when you install a program and it says must restart to complete install.DO IT!!! straight away!!. as the amout of times i get people who say it dont work and its because its a virus when they just clicked no means the installation was not complete.its asking you to do it for a reason mainly as its down to your registry that is like a big index mess that puppy up and your pc will be slow,sluggish and very annoying to work on
SORCE:
a guy who uses this program everyday to copy his dvd collection to a
1TB hardrive
has over 179 films on there including
robocop trilogy
terminator quadrilogy
and as i write this am just ripping the first disk of rocky anthology
and the program is still going strong!!!

Max
#254. January 4th, 2010, at 12:11 AM.

Best of all: DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter, the rest is garbage!

dominikopaleton
#255. January 13th, 2010, at 3:37 AM.

its. good program it has a little problems that’s no big deal. i can fixed it
by the way it’s free… it’s great….

digihs
#256. January 13th, 2010, at 9:51 AM.

HI.

Always, create the DVD image and then mount it in the virtual clone drive, which is free product:
http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

Mount the image and start ripping the movie from the image. This way, you will not hurt the DVD Drive and the DVD,
Hope this will help people.

Digish A D

Reverend Flatus
#257. January 13th, 2010, at 4:59 PM.

Worked fine until I got a message telling me the trial period had expired. What trial period? I thought this was free. The message directs you to a web page that doesn’t exist. 2/10 for effort.

india
#258. January 14th, 2010, at 5:31 PM.

Where can i get this program? thanks

why are you asking for my name?
#259. January 16th, 2010, at 7:50 PM.

what does it do?!?!?! why do i need this?!?!?!

Steve
#260. January 21st, 2010, at 2:26 PM.

I tried buying the AnySoft Video Converter and DVD Converter. In both programs the audio would not sync. I contacted the vendor and their solutions did not work. I would strongly recommend a freeware like Handbrake, run in XP using DVD43 for the unlock. I never had a problem. Upgrading to Win7 64 bit left me without an unlock solution. DO not waste your money with AnySoft products.

Giovani
#261. February 1st, 2010, at 6:53 PM.

Come on people! Then website of the developer is:

http://www.gobuysoftware.com

Get it? GO BUY SOFTWARE!!! Tells you alot, huh?

This is a non-serious offer that probably sends your info to the DHS.

LeD
#262. February 1st, 2010, at 11:35 PM.

I cannot get this thing to work on Vista. I have many other programs similiar to this one and this one just doesn’t like my comp.

E.Moreau
#263. February 8th, 2010, at 4:55 AM.

This actually works. Costs nothing and no watermarks.

Julio Barron
#264. February 16th, 2010, at 10:21 PM.

HOW DO I WATCH THE MOVIES WHEN THERE DONE??

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT EXPLAINING:)

Yidam
#265. February 25th, 2010, at 4:50 PM.

a good one

Lauren
#266. March 3rd, 2010, at 5:35 PM.

hey it worked great but all of a sudden when i open it it will go to taskbar but wont show it self any suggestions? it sits there as if minimized but won’t restore it self i tryed unistalling

walt
#267. March 4th, 2010, at 4:55 AM.

is this good?

User One
#268. March 5th, 2010, at 4:55 PM.

Not free at all. A 30 day Trial. Don’t be fooled!

Helper
#269. March 13th, 2010, at 11:00 PM.

This is for John and anyone else with the video cutoff problem.

Go to Settings
Output Settings
Choose the Divx Codec
Then click on the button “Pass 1 Settings”
click on the Video Tab and choose “Custom Resize” (Should default to 640 x 480)
Click OK. Then Apply

Terrythetortoise
#270. March 22nd, 2010, at 11:15 PM.

I never usually come back to leave comments, but I was so impressed with this software that I just had to return. It did the job perfectly, as good as any proprietary software, and it was free.

I will certainly recommend this.

WarDawg45
#271. March 28th, 2010, at 4:54 PM.

Okay, I read thru each and every single response posted on this site. I then decided that I am knowledgeable enough to download it and give it a try. It took less than 2 seconds to download. I then clicked the setup icon, and it made my Kaspersky AV go APE SHIT. It attempts to put a suspicious driver in your windows TMP registry. I really don’t think the publisher did this to be honest. I think this was tampered with. The following is what I saw:

3/28/2010 12:38:30 PM Detected: PDM.Suspicious driver installation IS-8IBHM.TMP C:\USERS\(Hidden for my Security)\APPDATA\LOCAL\TEMP\IS-0PSVO.TMP\IS-8IBHM.TMP Action selected by user
3/28/2010 12:38:30 PM Terminated: PDM.Suspicious driver installation IS-8IBHM.TMP C:\USERS\(Hidden for my Security)\APPDATA\LOCAL\TEMP\IS-0PSVO.TMP\IS-8IBHM.TMP Action selected by user

Dunno if this helps, but I sure as hell will not be installing it. My Kaspersky has been pretty jam-up and kept me aware of any attempted changes to my computer so far. I trust it and therefore deleted this thing from my system. Hope this helps anybody, or maybe someone can explain to me why it’s a suspected trojan from the publishers? Good luck and hope this was informative.

bruedog
#272. April 2nd, 2010, at 3:50 AM.

its stupid when i try to “start endocoading” it said somthing about ifo and its too hard

Jimsum
#273. April 3rd, 2010, at 9:37 AM.

Free version puts a watermark across the Video file.
You have to pay to remove ?

will
#274. April 16th, 2010, at 9:12 PM.

doesnt read disks

Fred Smatthers
#275. April 19th, 2010, at 5:04 PM.

Installed on my Windows Vista. No spyware as others have said. Something tells me the last dude is trying to sell Kaspersky software. Watermark? Not with mine. I am just ripping stuff I transferred from my old personal VHS tapes. Sounds like someone is trying to burn a dvd that is store bought.

Larry McKenzie
#276. April 22nd, 2010, at 12:48 AM.

Easy to use, my ass! I didn’t have a clue as to what to do except for clicking the red “start encoding” button. The “help” file was “about” instead of a real help file. There were no instructions anywhere.

annoyed
#277. April 25th, 2010, at 5:22 AM.

this is stupid i had the same broblem as bruedog and it also said that it couldn’t find the avi file and stuff
so much for ‘easy’

jake
#278. April 25th, 2010, at 8:22 PM.

when i use this program the audio and the video get progressively more off throughout the movie. any ideas?

happy
#279. April 25th, 2010, at 10:40 PM.

this actually works i fugured it out and it works just fine now. some of the output settings dont work only one does but its good

Sean
#280. May 3rd, 2010, at 3:47 AM.

Every time I try to use this Free DVD Ripper an error message appears telling me that the usage period had expired. this link appears http://www.gobuysoftware.com/free-dvd-ripper.html but nothing appears, help!!!

random714
#281. May 6th, 2010, at 7:52 AM.

there a bunch of f tards now its not free anymore this version dosn’t work!

Halifax
#282. June 6th, 2010, at 1:07 PM.

For Sean

The same for me, exactly the same situation. I wonder if this bad situation could come because fishing or what. Is someone resolved this? Thanks for help.

bruce
#283. June 10th, 2010, at 5:20 PM.

this is not freeware! freware is free not something that ypou have to pay for

Yaz
#284. July 13th, 2010, at 2:35 PM.

OMG worked so quickly and did the whole DVD brilliantly! so easy, quick and simple. this is the BOMB!!

kris
#285. July 21st, 2010, at 1:30 PM.

ok guys seriously you must be all retards reading ur comments … just wow …. i neaver used a program like this before in my life yet i got it working and riping cds perfectly in a matter of mins you guys are just to stupid for this program End of !

Quique
#286. July 22nd, 2010, at 4:40 AM.

Is there a way to get it to rip a widescreen DVD so that it maintains the widescreen? I don’t want to cut off the edges.

methuseleh
#287. August 5th, 2010, at 9:13 PM.

Just for educational purposes, I’m ripping a one hour and twenty minute dvd, which appears to be taking longer and longer. I left it going overnight, and now it says that it will take another 72 hours to finish. The job is only about one-fourth complete.

joe
#288. August 16th, 2010, at 8:26 PM.

peice of crap no wonder its freeif you don’t like headaches stay away

randy
#289. August 17th, 2010, at 12:14 AM.

I have ripped the movie, but don’t know where to find it to burn.where and how? can anyone help?

GFA
#290. August 18th, 2010, at 7:33 PM.

Does this work??? .. Or do I have to look for something else??.. Please respond

LizA
#291. September 7th, 2010, at 1:44 AM.

I just reinstalled this gem under Win 7 – and it’s working faultlessly without any tweaks.

Problems that people might find are that it says it can’t open the DVD (usualy a commercial locked DVD) – and that’s easily resolved by just opening the DVD in media player and then pausing it and then starting the encoding process. This works with most DVD’s but not every single one….

Also… people are complaining that it’s not making mp4 files. MP4 is a file format and you can quite happily have an AVI file with an mp4 format in it. I do this all the time and play these quite happily on my iPod 5G. Anyway – DivX/Xvid are mp4 formats… and those converters produce AVI file…..?

So – pay attention and think about what you’re doing and if you find problems, do a bit of research on DVD’s and video – and you’ll then know enough to understand the settings. As an example, I’m currently ripping a move to 1280 widescreen and it’s working just fine… and slowly (6fps)… but it’ll get there.

As for the negative anti-virus comments on this list…. have you never heard of false positives – they’re getting more common than ever before… Also – if you’re not prepared to expend 5 minutes checking the available settings of a new software package before you use it…. then maybe computers aren’t really for you?

PS – I have nothing to do with the authors of this package… but I do appreciate a nice bit of coding…

Michael
#292. September 7th, 2010, at 4:37 AM.

Installed and works perfectly. I also got the ‘input and output frame rate’ message, but just clicked ok and then encode, so that wasn’t a problem.

You can set the destination by going to ‘file’, then ‘select destination’. I’m not sure why so many people had trouble with this – have they never used a computer before? You always have to select the destination for any saved files, otherwise they’re invariably dumped in a random place.

Anyway, I recommend this ripper, it worked very well and is better than some of the software you have to pay for.

isis
#293. September 15th, 2010, at 7:13 AM.

Was easy to use but after encoding to MPEG4 & then AVI, they both gave me error msg saying frame rates not equal, but it still worked, just not very good quality.
For all of you who cant find your files, FIRST you need to go to FILE: “select a destination” BEFORE you click start encoding.

laptopkid
#294. September 17th, 2010, at 2:12 AM.

i downloaded this and it works perfectly on my laptop w/ windows 7. sure is a little slow but now i can watch movies on my laptop without having them with me, right? also, im 16, and suck with computers, if you cant figure this out, youre a tard.

Stingrea51
#295. October 6th, 2010, at 3:28 PM.

I used this program before, never had a problem with it. I love this program but I haven’t used it in over a year. Is there an expiration date or a set number of times you can use it? If so then I don’t want to install it onto my new computer until I really really need to use it. The program is awesome and I’d hate to install it and lose it because of not needing it at the moment.

Chris
#296. October 9th, 2010, at 3:15 AM.

For all of you that can’t get this software working, it’s your computer not this software. You most likely have a virus or some sort of malware installed on your machine. Rootkits, Rootkits. Don’t blame this software, your machine was screwed uup before you download it anyway. You just want to blame someone for your poor surfing habits. Damn fools….

Chris
#297. October 9th, 2010, at 3:26 AM.

Developers, It would be nice to be able to have 5.1 surround in the avi’s. Maybe you could add this little feature and bam, one double kick ass piece of software. Thanks and keep up the great work, still love it. I only know of one ripper that has Dolby Digital 5.1 available for AVI’s and it’s called Magic DVD ripper, but it cost money.
The file size is still small with AC3 encoding just not as small as it would be with 128kbps 2 channel stereo but man what a difference in watching/listening to it on a DVD player that will encode the Dolby Digital surround.

peace

Nick
#298. November 8th, 2010, at 2:48 PM.

I used this software for months on Vista Home Premium. It successfully ripped hundreds of movies & TV episodes to good-quality AVIs.

I agree with post #319, that most apparent problems are due to users not understanding the settings or the complexities of DVD ripping. The only real drawback I found was that I couldn’t seem to change the bitrate ofthe output – only important if you start running out of hard disk space.

HOWEVER, as post #251 and others have mentioned: the “usage Period” abruptly expired 3 days ago. Free DVD Ripper simply refuses to load any longer – it just gives a link to a non-existent update page. Putting the system clock back, or uninstalling it and deleting all associated AppData files, made no difference: when I downloaded & installed it afresh, the same error recurred immediately. There must be some dated Registry entry which remains – problem is, I can’t identify it. This is totally unacceptable with so-called freeware.

Has anyone managed to find the Registry entry?

Dave
#299. November 9th, 2010, at 4:46 PM.

After reading some of the comments I was kind of afraid of this program, but in desperation I downloaded it. I’m understand nothing about “bitrates” etc. so I was looking for an easy program to run. This is a great program and I’m glad I have it. I still don’t know much about dvd ripping but it’s working for me.

libellus
#300. November 14th, 2010, at 8:10 PM.

Great tool, but doesn’t seem to work too well with Windows 7 and/or 1680×1050 resolution (skin completely breaks). I hope they fix that soon.

L
#301. November 17th, 2010, at 9:04 AM.

This program is crap. Its very strangely laid out, and has framerate issues. I used Magic DVD riper before the trial ran on on it, and it is by far the best ripper I have ever used.

Jason
#302. November 25th, 2010, at 7:57 AM.

This was working fine for me a few months ago, but recently I tried opening it and it said that my 30 day trial had expired. I tried uninstalling and installing again, but the same message came up.

It means that this software isn’t free, guys.

kevin
#303. December 4th, 2010, at 1:49 PM.

I can’t get it to do anything… Says decoder not initiated… Ask me to open an .ifo/.mpeg before a dvd. I did. Same error messgae…

Shara
#304. December 28th, 2010, at 9:43 AM.

It took me a little bit to get it figured out. Once I did, it was simple. There are still some settings I don’t understand. All over an ok download. And hey, it’s free. I would just like a user manual for it <>.

alooper21
#305. January 2nd, 2011, at 3:13 PM.

so many people around here need to learn how to use a computer. this thing works just fine, though it might have issues if the system is missing certain drivers or codecs and such. so far i had no problems with it.

DJ Brumby
#306. January 17th, 2011, at 8:40 PM.

Just a minor point that’s major for some of us. Let me start off by explaining that, as a veteran disabled with moderate-to-severe PTSD I have both little money and problems handling the stress produced by trying to figure out wholly unfamiliar computer programs. I suspected after reading several comments that this program does NOT work UNLESS the user is extremely familiar with all things digital video, but I only developed this supicion because I have years of experience in seeing people who know a great deal about something telling everyone it’s “simple” and castigating anyone who hasn’t got their background knowledge as “stupid”. Sure enough, those sorts of comments starting showing up a short way through the reviews.

It might be more helpful for initial product reviewers to keep in mind that not everyone is a geek, and rather than claiming something is simple and easy, explain as did one reviewer that it’s easy to use ONLY IF you already have experience. It might also be helpful for those of you in the know to try to remember that people like me are out here trying to find some affordable program they can actually use with no one other than online forums to advise them, and while everyone online has their own favorite program few of them have any real technical support.

After three months of intermittant trying I have managed to get one file backed up. One. I have to quit trying permanently at this point. The stress load is skyhigh, and that’s always bad for us. We need a program that IS simple, or clear directions on exactly what to set to achieve the desired result with no more than a scant handful of steps per file being backed up, not name calling and contempt.

2lisErwin
#307. January 18th, 2011, at 5:56 AM.

Works great! very easy to use, didn’t encounter any problems so far.

Straal
#308. January 28th, 2011, at 3:37 PM.

THIS IS NOT FREEWARE – THE PROGRAM EXPIRES QUICKLY AND YOU WILL NEED TO BUY. GO FOR REAL FREEWARE INSTEAD

Rob
#309. February 3rd, 2011, at 7:21 PM.

Works fine

Try harder or get a new computer because its not the program.

Gael
#310. February 16th, 2011, at 3:47 PM.

Finding the destination file! I had the same problem after the
encoding was finished. I finally found it on my Windows 7
computer by clicking search mode, entering C:/ then
found the file. It is marked “NONE”. To make it easier to
find after that, I sent the file to my documents, then
gave it the title of the movie. I’m burning it on my DVD
Styler right now, but the minimum I could get it to burn
was 141 minutes for a 90 minute movie. I’ll to some
tweaking to try and hopefully get it down to arond 96
minutes (higher bit rate and better quality).

mark
#311. February 21st, 2011, at 11:59 PM.

just keep getting no ifo file message.

this program may or may not be easy to use for those with at least some basic knowledge of DVD ripping.

But for anyone else it is not… especially with the lack of a manual or any kind of FAQ.

Mike
#312. February 27th, 2011, at 12:21 AM.

Ive had it for about 2 months but its saying that the trial is expired. I dont get it, its a FREE ripper. Excellent software though

George Burns
#313. March 2nd, 2011, at 10:52 PM.

It works better than Format Factory!

Phoenix2312
#314. March 3rd, 2011, at 8:12 PM.

Have downloaded and tested following a scratch a fave film – Quick System Rundown:

Intel Dual Core 2 Duo, 3GB Mem running Windows Vista

Avast! Anti Virus – No Viruses/Spyware
Spybot S&D – No Spyware

Just for the few comments claiming otherwise – This Download IS CLEAN!

As for Performence – Stopped responding at 10.3%

Will test again and report back.

Phoenix2312
#315. March 3rd, 2011, at 9:25 PM.

Back once more – Final Tests:

Results:

Ease of use – 8/10
Speed – 9/10
Output Quality – 8/10
Overall – 8/10

Good Quality but does hog processor so do NOT RUN OTHER APPS AT SAME TIME! SIMPLE!

NB: Not tested with Copy Protected DVD’s – Be sensible! It probably WILL NOT get thorugh Copy Protection… What do you expect for freeware?

Matt
#316. March 10th, 2011, at 10:35 PM.

This thing is a scam. It does not work. Installed on windows XP. It ‘Cannot read from’ my DVD… of course the files on the DVD come up perfectly fine. Fake program…

Robert
#317. March 21st, 2011, at 10:50 PM.

Works good. Make sure your output setting is set to NTSC, and the output should be set for MPEG2 if you are getting the “frame-rate” message. You can convert it to something else later…

Wesley
#318. March 27th, 2011, at 10:18 PM.

It worked great but is no longer running properly for me, when I start the program it appears on my taskbar but I can’t get the window up, I have tried reinstalling it but it still isn’t working

EightBitVideo
#319. April 12th, 2011, at 10:28 AM.

It’s not a scam. It doesn’t ask for credit cards. It doesn’t have viruses, spyware, or adware. It saves a file to wherever you select it to save to (it’s right on the main screen under output folder.. pick a folder and a name). If it can’t rip a dvd the dvd is probably copyright protected. It should work just fine on vista since vista = beta 7 and it works just fine on windows 7.

If your a fellow NTSC (american) user then you will have to go through and change quite a bit of the settings. It is not very easy for a non tech savy user to understand. I will help a little and say a DVD has a resolution of 720 by 480 with your fps output 29.97 so you will need to change all of that. The program does work it also does freeze up a lot (just close the program and re-open) when you are trying to make adjustments. I haven’t had it freeze while converting though. I also haven’t had it say my trial is over yet but if it does I imagine I’d fully delete the program maybe release and renew my IP if it actually went that far (doubtful) and redownload.

Overall it’s not great but it’s free and does it’s job. If you aren’t comfortable using anything other than default settings you should look for something more user friendly. If you are fully capable of configuring software or you want a challenge this works just fine.

Just to restate this. Default settings of this will likely not work or you will get bad quality results. There are no easy settings it is all tech talk. So for the non techs heres a way around it.
Plug in your DVD. Go to My Computer. Right Click on your DVD Drive Icon. Select Open. It should have some folders saying something like video_rm and video_ts open the video_ts folder. There should be VOB files in there with some big file sizes. Click on those and drag those out to your desktop or whatever folder you want those saved to. Those are the actual movie files and they should be playable in windows media player. If not VLC media player works with almost anything. If you’d like to still convert it to a more recognized encoding format open up windows movie maker and drag those VOB files from wherever you saved them to and drop them in windows movie maker. Click at the top and you will have an option to save movie pick a computer and it will re-encode it in WMV format which should make it a lot easier to get to whatever format you really want. Or you could click the burn to dvd option whatever you’d like.

Morgs
#320. May 11th, 2011, at 7:54 PM.

It worked for me but i can’t figure out how to get it into itunes. Any suggestions?

peter
#321. May 14th, 2011, at 6:53 PM.

nope just another program that doesnt do what it says…. doesnt rip the whole movie and if not connected to internet tells me it has run out of trial period…just more crap to sort through..

Not for Me
#322. May 18th, 2011, at 12:42 AM.

Didn’t open dvd for me
Windows 7 64bit
dell insp. 560 pc

gav
#323. May 23rd, 2011, at 12:38 PM.

this program works great. ignore all the bad comments, some people just have NOT got a clue and probably don’t understand the software.
it does the job perfectly providing you alter the resolution to that of a dvd you will NOT have issues.

Chuck
#324. May 30th, 2011, at 6:40 AM.

I tried to set the Output file as a sub-folder in My Documents but it insisted on putting the file in the C: root no matter what I did. I even tried to put it to the D: root with no luck.

I set the IFO which found the 11 tracks I wanted to save but it seems to be saving only a single track. I’m waiting for it to finish to see what is left in the root …

MissManicPanic
#325. May 30th, 2011, at 1:10 PM.

It takes a while to rip almost real time, but AVG 2011 found no viruses and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware did not find Malware/Spyware so stop saying that. There is a YouTube video on this page detailing how to use the program. The default is PAL for UK users like me, if you cannot be bothered to change the settings I suggest not using a ripper at all because that is just pure laziness. It’s still ripping now and it’s The L Word season 5 disc 2 so yes it CAN get around copy protection people. I don’t even know who made the program so I can’t be from the company lol I just googled for a free dvd ripper because that shiz should be free. Sound lagging doesn’t bother me as the sound will be muted anyway as I use it to make videos with WMM for YouTube and projects. If you don’t like it don’t use it very simple. Don’t be ignorant and learn about codecs and ripping before spamming this page whining it doesn’t work, it makes you a lazy imbecile. Oh and use spellchecker and learn grammar it makes you look uneducated and chavvy.

Jess
#326. June 5th, 2011, at 12:34 AM.

I downloaded this and it worked great and now for some reason it isn’t launching anymore. I have more movies I want to rip but it won’t come up, and yes I have uninstalled and reinstalled it and still nothing. Can anyone help me this was a great program until this happened.

Katy
#327. June 5th, 2011, at 2:35 PM.

Absolutely amazing!

tim
#328. June 7th, 2011, at 4:40 PM.

Didn’t work for me, just said unable to read video_ts file or something, tried a couple of dvd’s and just said the same.

fabian
#329. June 9th, 2011, at 2:07 AM.

can anyone help me with this everytime i try to open the software it keeps saying The usage period has expired, it gives me an address to download the new version, but th elink doesnt work, anyone knows something about it?
thanks

Leanne
#330. June 16th, 2011, at 11:19 AM.

I’m new to DVD ripping. Does anyone have an suggestions at to what free software to download as none of them seem to work. I’m on Office 2007.

Cheers

Jessie
#331. June 25th, 2011, at 6:17 PM.

Wonderful program! I needed something to help with my video camera which burns straight to DVD, and this worked!

wusuwa
#332. June 26th, 2011, at 3:45 AM.

can’t believe this is work.. thank’s

John Winlow
#333. July 1st, 2011, at 9:36 PM.

dvdripper 2.25 just has to be the crappiest programme pretending to copy dvds.
There are no instructions
No explanations
and
No help.
Even the youtube video nerd whistles through his explanation so fast that he might as well not have bothered.
Think I’ll go for 1Clickdvd and DVD43.
At least I know they work!

Johanna
#334. July 4th, 2011, at 6:06 PM.

it really works, although it takes some time ..
the only problem I have is that I don’t know how to rip the subtitles as well. I would like to rip the english version with english subtitles.
can anyone help me, please?

Patrick
#335. August 5th, 2011, at 6:22 PM.

Ok, now every time I use it, it crashes without even opening and it says “Free DVD Ripper 2.7 has stopped working”.

I have Win7 64-bit.

Lola
#336. August 27th, 2011, at 3:27 AM.

Hey Im trying to rip my Merlin DVDS but it will only rip the first episode, how do I get it to rip the second and thid and stuff???

CrazyKiller
#337. September 19th, 2011, at 2:02 AM.

The encoder works very well. Its relatively slow compared to others. Quality is not so good, but def good enough. For those that are scared off by the bad reviews don’t be. The file is findable as long as you give the file a specific path to go to, the others must have forgotten to do that, its a key to knowing where your files are. And I haven’t had spam or anything of that nature come from this program, Norton view it as a good program so no worries there. I would recommend trying if you can’t afford a real program.

Me
#338. September 19th, 2011, at 7:32 PM.

This program is useless, it’s a repackaged DVDx 2.2, I
attempted to rip a DVD which has a problem. First thing I don’t like
is the idiots who created this program want to encode to
340X280, anybody who rips a video that small needs to be beat to death.

The program keeps whining about the input and output frame
rage don’t match, but there no fucking way to correct this.

I did a short three min test and the audio is all over the
place, it’s chopped up, now you hear it and now you don’t, tipical
problem of this program. Been there, done that.

I’m not going to waste any more time bitching about this
software, it was free and I got what I paid for, nothing.

This form input sux too, it runs off the frame to the right
and I can’t scroll over to read it, another idiot who doesn’t
know HTML.

Guest
#339. December 13th, 2011, at 2:30 AM.

for those who cant find the files, it is usually under computer/C:

Colin
#340. January 9th, 2012, at 9:11 AM.

Great. Tested it and tested some more. Then, encoded then encoded some more. Not A single problem. ;|

Brian
#341. February 17th, 2012, at 9:59 PM.

For the most part this program works great, although it seems completely unable to rip Disney DVDs which is unfortunate since I will be travelling with my son soon. The only problem I have had is that with a lot of the movies I rip the sound and video is slightly off, the lips are either slightly ahead or slightly behind the voices. Is there a setting that could fix this?

For those of you that are having trouble finding the file afterwards the file is none.avi or none.mpg I believe. If you are using Vista or Windows 7 just go to the C:\ you will not see it, but there is a button at the top that says compatability view, click that and the file will show up. Rename it and you are good to go.

For people who are having trouble getting the encryption to work because of frame rate, in the input settings, click the detect 24fps and the force 24fps, this worked for me.

Joze
#342. May 3rd, 2012, at 9:19 PM.

Resolution settings considering bit rate and size of movie pictures
at MPEG-4 (DivX, XviD) and WMV (Windows Media Video) compressions.
—————————————————————-

-pictures size – 4:3 (1.3333) – old TV format

288 × 216 = min. 160 Kbps
320 × 240 = min. 200 Kbps
384 × 288 = min. 300 Kbps
480 × 360 = min. 500 Kbps
576 × 432 = min. 800 Kbps
->640 × 480 = min. 1000 Kbps –> recommended
672 × 504 = min. 1150 Kbps
720 × 540 = min. 1400 Kbps
768 × 576 = min. 1650 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
? 800 × 600 = min. 1850 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
864 × 648 = min. 2200 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
960 × 720 = min. 2800 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
1024 × 768 = min. 3300 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
——————————————————————————

-pictures size – 3:2 (1.5) – Layka format

288 × 192 = min. 140 Kbps
384 × 256 = min. 270 Kbps
480 × 320 = min. 450 Kbps
576 × 384 = min. 700 Kbps
->672 × 448 = min. 1000 Kbps –> recommended
720 × 480 = min. 1250 Kbps
768 × 512 = min. 1450 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
864 × 576 = min. 2000 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
960 × 640 = min. 2500 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
1024 × 682 = min. 3000 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
——————————————————————————

-pictures size – 16:9 (1.7777) – new TV format

288 × 162 = min. 120 Kbps
384 × 216 = min. 230 Kbps
480 × 270 = min. 400 Kbps
576 × 324 = min. 600 Kbps
672 × 378 = min. 850 Kbps
->704 × 396 = min. 1000 Kbps –> recommended
720 × 406 = min. 1100 Kbps
768 × 432 = min. 1250 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
? 854 × 480 = min. 1600 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
864 × 486 = min. 1750 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
960 × 540 = min. 2200 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
1024 × 576 = min. 2600 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
——————————————————————————

-pictures size – 47:20 (2.35) – cinema format

352 × 150 = min. 140 Kbps
432 × 184 = min. 230 Kbps
512 × 218 = min. 350 Kbps
592 × 252 = min. 500 Kbps
672 × 286 = min. 650 Kbps
->720 × 306 = min. 800 Kbps –> recommended
766 × 326 = min. 950 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
864 × 368 = min. 1300 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
960 × 408 – min. 1700 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
1024 × 436 = min. 2000 Kbps –> (This resolution doesn’t work on DVD players).
——————————————————————————

Kbps (Kilo bits per second) = Kbit/s

Bit rates at MPEG-2 compression multiply by 2,
at MPEG-1 multiply by 3.

Video files which are bigger than 2Gbit, most likely won’t be played to the end
on DVD players, so it’s recommended to avoid doing such a video file.

Nice Regards from Slovenia.

Joze
#343. May 4th, 2012, at 12:14 AM.

I found out that Free DVD Ripper 2.25 doesn’t work if you install Xvid Encoder. I tried three versions of Xvid Encoder: Xvid-1.1.3, Xvid-1.2.1 and Xvid-1.2.2. None of them didn’t allow Free DVD Ripper 2.25 to work. I’m having operating system XP sp3 now, but before I used to have XP sp2 and Ripper worked fine but I can’t remember if I had instaled Xvid Encoder, so I’m not sure where is the problem now.