Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum SE is easy and fast DVD ripping software with powerful and integrative functions. It can help you rip DVD to all popular video and audio formats. It includes features of both DVD Ripper and DVD Audio Ripper. You can easily rip your DVD to video formats such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, RM, MOV, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, Xvid, and ASF and convert DVD to audio formats MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, AC3, M4A, MP2, and OGG with the fastest speed. There has been never such DVD ripper software supporting so comprehensive video and audio formats. Key Features: supports many personal multimedia devices such as PSP, iPod, PDA and MP4 player, supports ripping by custom file size, can auto-split output file into several files to fit CD-R or other device, allows you to select target subtitle and audio track, output file size is adjustable, and supports batch conversion.
Version 4.0.58 build 1030 supports 80GB iPod output.
Pros: This program has a large number of features, too numerous to test. The user interface is reasonable. On paper, it should handle almost any ripping to hard disk task.
Cons: There is no documentation at all - the help file only directs you to the web that has some lame FAQs. Support said that the help file is "coming".
DVD Ripper does not accurately rip to MPEG-2: the resulting files would not play on WMP on several of my machines and would not work at all with Beyond TV (the software I want to use to manage my home theater PC); and common video info programs report the ripped file as being MPEG-1 (GSpot and VideoInspector). Tech support was utterly useless in responding to my demonstration that resulting MPEG-2 files were improperly formed. All they wanted to do is try to prove that they can play the file on some machines.
I tried to rip to AVI, and video/audio went out of sync an hour into the 2 hour movie.
On two occasions, DVD Ripper Platinum crashed and hung a machine that had very few installed drivers and/or software applications.
This program has the potential to be a very good product, however it is just not ready for prime time yet.
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