DVD Getting low quality rips

[jgodonwalker]

I am a new user of DVDFab and the quality I am getting is significantly worse than what I previously obtained from a combination of MakeMKV and Handbrake. I have chosen Rip to Theatre and get a file size comparable to the other tools but the image is grainy and, at times, pixellated. How can I get acceptable results?

[Rich86]

What is your source material.

[jgodonwalker]

It's a new DVD of Captain America: the First Avenger although I've had similarly disappointing results from a box set of The Diplomat. Are there particular attributes you're asking about?

[Rich86]

I would expect the quality of your rip to equal the quality of your DVD. I generally use the "Copy" "Full Disc" function and get good results since it is not compressing anything when I do that. But more than likely I will burn it to a disc & may have to compress the video to fit on single layer media. Are you ripping it to a hard disc to play directly on your TV or other video device?

[jgodonwalker]

I am ripping it to put it on a JellyFin server to play on Firesticks and mobile devices, When I try the Copy function it tells that that it is a different product, that I have to buy something other that the DVD Ripper I paid for. Have I bought the wrong product or is there a way to get decent quality from the Ripper? The file sizes it is producing are comparable to those my former workflow of MakeMKV and Handbrake produce but of significantly worse quality. Is there a way to tell if this is in the ripping process or the encoding? Is it using ffmpeg and, if so, is there a way to see what settings it is using?

[Stan001]

I go into Custom and choose MKV (although I think there was a short time I used MP4, I just like MKV better) and seem to get ok videos. You need to remember you're dealing with 480p, at best, if it's a plain DVD.

ADDED, it also has an MKV passthrough option. It should go faster in most respects and should be the same or very similar quality as DVD.

There is also a way to go into Advanced settings; you have to look for it, and you can change some settings to try for better quality.

I personally would stick with Handbrake. I did not know about that when I first started ripping DVDs. Once I used Handbrake, I had little use for Dvdfab Ripper.

For best performance, strip copy protection with MakeMKV and save to a Hard Drive as an ISO. Then rip the ISO in Handbrake, or if you keep wanting to try Dvdfab Ripper, you can do the ISO in that.