How can you rip from a harddrive copy?

[Handler]

Hello!

I'm testing out DVDFab since Slysoft went to RedFox and my lifetime license for upgrades is useless now. A replacement if you will.

On occasion I'll fish through the dvd bin at WalMart and see if there are any gems in there. Once in while I get lucky! I found three last week and was trying to create the mp4, mkv or m4v files from a copy disk to hard drive.

Playing the hard drive version via VLC works fine but using the rip function in DVDFab the elapsed time just accumulates and the progress stays at 0%. If I take that hard drive copy and then use something like HandBrake on it well lets just say that the video file playback is less than acceptable.

So how can I get the hard drive copy of the DVD to be ripped to a video file? It's easier for me to copy three DVD's down to the hard drive and then rip them while I sleep than to have to sit there for a few hours while the program reads from the physical medium.

Hope you can help!

[signals]

If I understand your question correctly, you would simply select the Ripper tab in DVDFab, then use the "+ ADD" button in the upper left to add the source volumes on your HDD that you want to convert. If you have several, you can just continue clicking ADD until they are all listed, then set each one up for conversion type, bitrate, audio and sub options etc, then click start.

This is generally not an overnight process however, or need not be. If you have a higher-end CPU(i7)/GPU and are not reading and writing the same hard drive (source on one, target on another) you can achieve conversion speeds for DVD sources of around 1000 fps, so they don't take very long.

[kherr]

for me anyway, ripping (mp4) from an iso on the hard drive (ssd only used to write iso to and then copy for archive to nas later in batches) takes no more than 15 minutes tops (i7, iqs) with framerates near 750 if i remember correctly.

it seems to be a mystery why exactly, but writing the iso to a local drive only takes minutes, but writing directly to the nas (1gbs) takes over an hour ..... but copying the iso to the nas only takes minutes, so it's not a network issue. since i needed to buy another drive, a 256g ssd cost only slightly more than a 500g/1t conventional drive ...