DVD Tools

Tutorial & Guides for
DVD Ripper

Sothink DVD Ripper is a DVD ripping software which can rip DVD to AVI with high speed and excellent picture quality. The created AVI movies just take up 1/10 of the original DVD, and even smaller! You can rip DVD movies with DVD Ripper and play the output AVI videos on your PC, MP4 Player, Pocket PC, Smartphone and other portable devices at anytime anywhere.

 

Step 1 Select Source DVD

Insert the DVD disk into your DVD-ROM, and choose "Select Source DVD drive".
If you have more than one DVD drive, make sure which one has got the DVD disk and you have selected the right one.

If the DVD movie is stored in the hard drive, choose "Select DVD folder from hard disk drive".
You should manually specify the DVD folder in the window beneath which show the file system of your computer.

Click "Next" to load the DVD movie.

Step 2 Select Movies to Convert

In the dialog of this step you can see a list of all the movies included in the DVD disk.

• Choose movies

  Normally, a DVD contains a main movie and several extra movies. And a movie consists of one video, several audios and the relating subtitles. You can see the detailed information of a movie in the list, including the movie's duration, the audio and subtitle's language, the format and number of channels of the audio. When you select one movie, the software will select the video track, one audio and the corresponding subtitle for you by default.

  Select "None" for "Audio Track" or "Subtitle" to remove the audio or the subtitle of a movie.
  Uncheck the "Video Track" and check one "Audio Track", you can get an AVI formatted audio with no picture.

• Create movies separately

  Check this selection: "Convert the movies and save the created files repectively", then the movies will be processed separately. If the box is unchecked, then all the selected movies will be converted and saved as one file.

Step 3 Specify the Settings

• Specify the path

  Select a path that you want to use for the created movies. The program will automatically use the volume label of the DVD as the name of the output file. If there are more than one converted files, then each file's name will be differed by an ordinal number which is automatically added by the program.
  
  For example, if the volume label is superman, then the created files should be named as superman_1.avi, superman_2.avi ...

• Set profiles
  • Pre-defined profiles

    The program shows 10 different pre-defined profiles for you to choose. Each pre-defined profile has specified the video and audio settings that are the best for certain target.
    

  • User-defined profiles

    You can also specify the video and audio settings by yourself. Set the Sample Rate, Bit Rate and Channel for the audios and the Video Encoder, Dimension and Frame Rate for the videos respectively.
    
    Click "Encoder Configuration" button for more detailed settings for the encoder. If you select the encoder which has not installed on your computer yet, the program will prompt the corresponding download information of the encoder to you.
    
    For the Frame Rate, "Do Not Change" is recommended choice for the best effect.

• Start converting

  Click "Next" to start converting.

Conversion Process

• Status

  During the conversion process, the program will show the detailed conversion status, including:

  • File - file path and name.
  • Estimated time - the overall estimated time that the conversion would take.
  • Elapsed time
  • Time Left
  • Progress - the finished percentage of the conversion.
• Post-processing Options

  The program will show the detailed conversion information to you, including the Estimated Overall Time, Time Left, etc.
  And there are two operations you can choose to let the program do after the conversion:
  
  "Play a sound when conversion is finished" - Let the program tell you that the conversion is done by playing a sound.
  
  "Shut down the computer after all tasks are finished" - Let the program automatically shut down your computer after all tasks are done.

Conversion Result

After the conversion task is completed, the program will report the result summary.

If the target file is successfully generated, the program will show a path link. Click the link to open the file.