
Ripping became even more tricky to do legally with Blu-ray because multiple anti-piracy measures have to be circumvented and removed from the backup so it becomes a deliberate action to create a copy that no longer retains those security features so not a simple backup, but is piracy.Įither way, Piracy is wrong from any point of reasonable view. It became a bit more tricksy when DVD introduced anti-piracy features that specifically had to be circumvented in order to rip the disc. Ripping discs relies on the legal precedent that you are entitled to make a backup copy of discs you own, because it was easy to do so for CD and was a direct digital copy without tampering with any of the media contents. You MUST own the original format in order to have a legitimate backup.


Note that if you sell the DVD then this whole process becomes piracy and this forum should not give you illegal assistance. Anyone happen to know if that supports ripping individual hi-res tracks from DVD to FLAC? Instead, JRiver seems only to have the option to convert the entire DVD to a single monolithic audio file, not separate tracks.Īm I doing this right? Does JRiver have only the option to convert one monolithic file, without the ability to have separate tracks plus select which audio format you want (surround or stereo)?Īlso, the thread linked to above mentions using MakeMKV for this job ( ). I expected to see a list of separate files (.iso and what not), then open one, and then see a list of audio files (some for surround sound, some for stereo 24/96), and then select files to convert. However, when I view the DVD file in JRiver > right-click > Library Tools > Convert Format > select Convert Video to Audio, the experience is very different from the 3rd-party tools I've used for DVD-A. I've read the Convert Format wiki topic ( ) and this thread ( ).

Now, I'm trying to do something similar with a DVD video disc (Genesis Abacab). Previously, I've successfully used both DVD Audio Extractor and DVD Audio Explorer to rip hi-res 24/96 audio files from DVD-A discs.
