How to Rip a DVD to Your Computer or Laptop

Backup Your DVD Collection to Your Hard Drive!

There are a number of situations where you might want to rip your DVDs to your computer or laptop hard drive. Maybe you want to back them up to another location in case your original is destroyed. Maybe you want to have the video on your laptop for when you travel and you would prefer not to carry your DVDs along with you.

No matter the reason, there are a number of software solutions available to help you accomplish this task.  Here are overviews of a few programs to consider:

The iSofter DVD Ripper Platinum is designed for backup of your favorite DVD movies to your computer, iPod, PSP, Zune, iPhone, Creative Zen, cell phone, PDA and much more by converting DVD audio and video to AVI, DivX, XviD, VCD, WMV, MPEG4 format video files, with almost same quality, but just only 10% size.

This program can easily rip all those DVD files to your computer or laptop hard drive in a matter of minutes.

How to Rip DVD to Your PC with iSofter DVD Ripper Platinum:

Step 1: Download and install the FREE trial demo version of iSofter DVD Ripper Platinum (click here to download now!).

Step 2: Open the software on your desktop and insert the DVD you want to rip to your computer into the PC's DVD/CD combo drive or an external DVD drive. See image below:

Step 3: Choose the video and audio files from the DVD that you want to rip to your desktop. In this step, you can select the chapters/sections you wish to have on your PC. See the image below for details:

Step 4: Select the format you wish to rip the files to for storage on your computer. Your best bet is to choose a format like MPEG, MP4, AVI, DivX or WMV. See image below for details:

Step 5: Choose the location on your computer where you want the ripped video and audio files to be stored. A good idea is to setup a folder in your My Documents folder called "Ripped DVDs" or something similar so you will be able to easily locate them when needed.

Step 6: Click the start button to get the ripping process started.

That's it! In just a few short minutes, your DVD video and audio files will be in the format you selected on your computer hard drive. Click here to learn more about iSofter DVD Ripper Platinum!

 

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