Rent, Rip, Return (Tutorial)
p2pnet news view | P2P | Movies : Here is an easy (theoritical) tutorial on how to get your movies for $1. (Sorry this tutorial is only good where you can actually rent a DVD for $1.)
1. Go to a McDonalds that has a DVD rental kiosk out front.
2. Pick the movies you want to rent, remember, you can only have them for a day for the $1, so only get as many as you think you can rip at a time. In my case I can do 20-30. (Once ripped, you can setup a queue in Handbrake to compress them overnight.)
3. Download and install MacTheRipper. Or if on a PC go here and choose the program of your choice.
4. Rip the DVD according to the instructions for the software you chose. You should end up with a AUDIO_TS/VIDEO_TS folders, thats the raw DVD footage with separation of tracks. (I always go for the Main Feature Extration to eliminate the bullshit.)
5. Download Handbrake and install. There is a version for Mac or PC.
6. Using Handbrake just drag the VIDEO_TS folder onto the application and tell it go GO. (With experience, you can play with the settings for smaller files with same high quality. The important part is Bitrate, be sure and select 2000+)
7. Return the $1 rented DVD from whence you got it.
Voilà ! You have only paid $1, as should be the REAL price, been able to watch the movies WITHOUT the un-skippable commercials and the offending accusations of being a criminal (once you rip and compress, you are left with a digital copy of the MOVIE, and not all the bullshit that comes on the DVD as ‘extras’), and you get to keep a copy for prosperity, never having to rent that particular movie again.
You can setup a process where you rip 4 movies on a Monday, set them up for compression in the Handbrake queue while you sleep, then on Tuesday, go rent 4 more movies, while returning the 4 you ripped. Then go home and watch Monday’s movies while ripping Tuesday’s.
After doing this for awhile, you should have a rather impressive library of movies to choose from.
surfer
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July 23rd, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Say is this based on the assumption that the so called ” dollar movie ” isn’t css encrypted ?
none of those dvd rippers listed for pc are no good without slysoft dvdfab or dvd decrypter .
Otherwise the author of this post is advocating things that are ILLEGAL according to the US copyright and patent legal code.
P2Pnet ought to know better. Do you people remember the DMCA ?
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:26 pm
read this, same thing applies to this story.
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:36 pm
I Google’d slysoft dvdfab and got 464,000 results, mostly torrents.
now THAT’s giving it exposure, I didn’t dig too deep on the PC side, but thanks for the heads up for the PC guys. I didn’t bother with dvd decrypter, I figured 464,000 different torrents should be enough to get someone ’started’.
thanks for sharing the wealth…
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:38 pm
surfer is an Apple person. *sigh*
Cheers!
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:43 pm
@RW
We are not american. Couldn’t care less about whats legal or not under US copyright and patent bullshit. DMCA? what’s that? another american thing?
Also, I have Alzheimer’s. My wife started getting fed up of me renting the same movie for 4$ every 2nd day for the past month. I don’t even remember what movie it was :/
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
not sure why’s you even pay a dollar when you can get a dvdrip online for free – but I have found that DVD Shrink – freeware, works great, rips quickly, and then uses the built in software to burn. I can do about one movie per hour that way – also another way to do it free is borrow a movie from a friend
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:03 pm
oh, I don’t, but for the sake of the experiment, I had to make sure that where I got the DVD was a valid test subject for the research.
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:31 pm
My advice to Jon is to take this down immediately if it is not already too late.
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Why? Is this something no one knows?
Probably best to write about it now before laws change and they tell you that you can’t write about how to jail-break a phone (unlock a phone), or even copy/paste for that matter.
This is how things are going.
Besides who is going to go after every website?
Who is going to go after every person who writes?
Start building jails and more gitmo’s.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:08 am
@A friend:
Nothing surfer published is unknown or illegal.
P2Pnet can’t be sued for anything.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:53 am
I’m not comfortable about this being here. Ripping a DVD may not be as immoral as victimising mothers with lawyers, but movies legitimately cost a lot to produce (an order of magnitude more than music), and we should all contribute fairly to watching them; one dollar doesn’t cut it. Sorry, and all that, but let’s have some honour here. I think I preferred it when it was just Jon.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:12 am
“Iâm not comfortable about this being here.”
The goal is to put out of business the entertainment terrorists once and for all because you don’t negotiate with terrorists you kill them. So it does not matter if their name is Ben laden Zarkawoui, Bainwhole or Mme Chitman.
If you thing the comparaion is unfare, think again. Granted El-Quada did kill more people than the 7 major entairtainment corporations. However these corporations are causing enourmous damages to our societies.
These damages to our governements and our institutions are much more severe than a Ben laden can achieve at the most as long as we can keep the neo-con in their cages.
For now this is a war on corporate terror that we the people can not and will not lose even if we have to shot all these parasites one by one.
Once this is achieved I know for sure that we can figure out something between civilized people to acomodate everyone given the evolution of distributive technologies.
BOYCOTT THE RIAA/MPAA!
No movie, no DVD, no CD and no download!
Every thing you can do to discourage your friends from buying things from these parasites is welcome including riping DVDs and CDs and giving copies away!
Remember! This is a war! We are goint to win it. And sorry but we did not started this and there is no turning back!
FIRE!
July 24th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Andy,
This is no different than time shifting, recording on a VCR or what Real Networks program does (which is a legit program… or is it? ).
If Surfer if off for a business trip and wants movies to watch without paying fee’s for being late or paying for 9 days, why can’t he rent 20-movies, burn them return the originals and watch them on his computer while on a plane or on his leisure in Albania? He paid to watch it, that’s exactly what he is doing and paid for!
He isn’t distributing the stuff. When he gets back he will have a couple of dozen coffee coasters or a full HD he will need to delete.
End of story.
July 24th, 2009 at 7:39 am
@ My advice to Jon is to take this down immediately …
I’m sure this is well intended, and at Andy, same again.
It’s time for the corporations to start talking to people instead of trying to screw them at every turn.
Cheers!
July 24th, 2009 at 9:40 am
“you get to keep a copy for prosperity, never having to rent that particular movie again.”
I thought surfer meant “posterity”, but if you never have to rent again, you’ll definitely be more prosperous!! LOL!
July 24th, 2009 at 10:44 am
” Do you people remember the DMCA ? ”
Do you remember the AHRA ?
July 24th, 2009 at 10:54 am
” not sure whyâs you even pay a dollar when you can get a dvdrip online for free ”
As the cartel’s become more and more assholish, this will fast become the safest way for the lay person
to save and share. Once they have a nice collection on a 1tb portable SATA drive ( about 100.00 US ), they
can cart it around and pass it along. The cartels are going to make the sneaker-net unstoppable.
July 24th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
What Surfer discusses here is a version of sneakernet, only you are renting a DVD instead of borrowing a floppy from a friend, it is indeed the safest way to accumulate movies. FYI, I don’t recommend dvd shrink as it is not being updated due to DMCA threats. It still works with some dvd’s, but others have newer DRM which thwarts it. I have encountered DVD’s that dvdshrink would not rip. I haven’t used it in a while, but I’ve had good luck with this, and it looks like it is still in active development – http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm One thing that hasn’t been mentioned is the dvd drives themselves, they are NOT all the same! Some do a better job of ripping than others, if you are just starting out building a comp, or are looking to get a new dvd drive, research this. Lite-on used to make pretty good drives for ripping, but even then it varies from model to model, google is your friend here.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
also DVDxCopy, another DVD ripping tool that once ‘updated’ will no longer decrypt CSS, due to pressure from the MAFIAA asshats. I checked with my PC guy to see what he uses, and he uses an older copy of DVDxCopy, similar to the DVD Shrink issue., and Toast, and alot of other programs that used to circumvent the bullshit no longer will, after being ‘updated’,
some update…
stw
July 24th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Yeah, I haven’t checked out the current version, but when dvdfab updated, it was to beat the more recent additions of dvd drm, not disable any decrypting features. I’ve never tried it, but slysoft makes anydvd, it looks like they keep that current and have not disabled any decrypting features.
July 24th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Anyone consider using your public library system? It would provide a decent backup to renting, especially for older titles.
July 25th, 2009 at 1:29 am
yall keep ripping, ill keep downloading
July 25th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Andy: “I think I preferred it when it was just Jon.”
@Andy…
are you stating (or even just implying) that you didn’t like any of my articles, interviews, or essays? i know jon used to get a lot of mail against me, urging him to get rid of me. were you one of those people?
a lot of lamescreamers and twitterers (twits, they’re called) do a lot of spouting off about “creating online communities” and some such nonsense. p2pnet was started as a personal weblog, which attracted a lot of attention, then groupies, then contributors to the point that the website name itself is revered as a fair and honest open forum for anyone to use.
people from all sides of the filesharing/copyright issue have contributed to p2pnet, both as readers and writers – whether one agrees with them or not. but it’s pretty much a one-of-a-kind. i don’t know of any other website (message board or news-oriented) that offers this type of opportunity to discuss things and engage “the enemy”. some web magazines and lamescream news sites have tried this and failed. one often has to have a paid membership or subscription, and very often, “the enemy” or subject of an article will not participate in an open, online forum.
i think jon has a well-established name that attracts both sides because it does allow different and/or dissenting views.
Andy, obviously i’m still around, and as i’m still “Official Roving Reporter” for p2pnet (and as far as i’m aware, the first person jon asked to be part of his “staff” years ago), it’s not a mantel i’m willing to relinquish.
i don’t post articles much anymore – but i’m in contact with jon a few times/week, sending him things he might find useful (most recently the ipod weed locator application). i haven’t gone away, and i don’t plan on going away.
surfer and a few others i’ve noticed have adeptly taken up the slack in my absence, which also leaves jon time to deal with his own articles and research, the lawsuits (his own and others’), and family obligations.
*****
on the subject of this article:
i generally get dvds from my library (4-6 at a time) that i can keep for a week. i usually use dvd decrypter and dvd shrink. once in a while have to use dvdfab or ripit4me. from rip to burn usually takes around an hour.
for me the total cost (excluding my library membership) is less than $1US – the cost of a blank dvd and sleeve.
i do buy dvds and box sets, but not as much as i used to.
i’ll be covering this subject, as well as a few others, in an upcoming article.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Nice tutorial. But the final step is noticeably absent (the title should have been “Rent, Rip, Return, SHARE”)
July 25th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
I watch few movies more than once and indeed few movies. I don’t feel the urge to collect them just so they can sit on my shelf and collect dust. IMO somep people are consummed with having and collecting for the sake of having and collecting but they end up rarely if ever using them again. Just my 2 cents.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Most movies nowadays are not worth ripping, or indeed watching.
July 26th, 2009 at 2:04 am
Two things to note;
1. Step 6 is telling you to convert the DVD files to an AVI file. This process can take anywhere from an hour to several hours, depending on the speed of your system and the settings you select.
2. Converting from DVD to AVI is far from a simple, one-step process, at least with the Windows programs I’ve tried. You can easily end up with badly compressed video or out of sync audio. Getting something watchable is fairly easy. Getting a flawless AVI copy that’s sharp, clear and in sync takes more work. If it didn’t, there wouldn’t be entire forums devoted to ripping and encoding DVDs.
July 26th, 2009 at 2:22 am
For dvd to avi I wound up using this – http://simpledivx.org/ after not getting satisfactory results from other programs(too confusing, or had sound problems) It has an easy, tabbed interface, it also has a queue feature so you can leave it running while you are at work and compress more than one movie. As for downloading, sure, that can be easier, but it’s always good to have options. If you rip it yourself you get control over how much or how little compression you want to use, what type of compression format you want, etc. Also, once in a while something obscure can be hard to find(usenet is great for new releases, but not so hot for older stuff), or if you are using bittorrent, hardly anyone is seeding it so downloading is very slow. To me, having done both, each method has it’s own advantages and disadvantages
July 26th, 2009 at 7:17 am
if i encode dvd to xvid, then i use aurogk, which is also the most popular dvd to avi program. their forums are always very helpful and replies are usually swift..
there is a hidden settings menu, but that’s more for people who like to play around and know what they’re doing. otherwise, the default settings and dropdown menus are enough.
July 26th, 2009 at 7:19 am
duh, that should read autogk, not aurogk.
July 26th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Library library library! You can get DVDs for $0 at a library!
July 27th, 2009 at 12:16 am
I know this information is selective, and only represents a methodology. but my point was to post the information freely, and without threat of lawsuit against Jon. I will continue to skirt the legal boundaries until such time as they amend the laws to be more socialist/oligarchy.
and thank you is for the support catflap.
stw
July 27th, 2009 at 8:30 am
for converting other video formats (example: mp4) to avi, i use ultra video converter or after dawn video converter. i also find that if i get an avi that’s screwed up because the encoder had no idea what they were doing, autogk can re-encode it correctly. i don’t have to do these things too often, thankfully.
sometimes i’ll make a dvd for someone who i’m not sure can play avi on a dvd player. i’ll convert avi or mp4 or other video formats to dvd using nero or convertxtodvd
for cd ripping i usually use musicmatch 10 (a version before it was sold to yahoo). and if my pc is busy, one of my dvd players can rip a cd to mp3 onto a flash drive. but i don’t rip a lot of audio so i don’t have a lot of experience with other programs and formats.
July 27th, 2009 at 8:34 am
oh, also i found a very good audio converter called
FairStars Audio Converter. it seems to handle all audio formats easily.