Do you want to watch the movies on your Mobile Phones? Do you want to take a back up of any original DVD Content?Do transfer video on original DVDs to different formats? Do you want to convert DVD video for playback on media players and mobile devices? If yes, then you need a DVD Ripper and DVD disk drive. A DVD ripper is a software program that facilitates copying the content of a DVD to a hard disk drive.

There are many DVD Ripper software programs are available for Mac and Windows PC.  Most of the free DVD ripper provides the basic functionality and premium package include additional features such as Blu-ray support, DVD and Blu-ray Disc decryption, copy protection removal, and the ability to make discs unrestricted and region-free.

Follow the below steps to copy the DVD content to Hard disk and Mobile devices using DVD Ripper

How to Copy the DVD Content to Hard Disk

1. Get the DVD which you want to backup or rip.
2. Obtain a DVD ripping program. You can download it from here and install it on your desktop.
3. Launch the application on your computer. This is any program that can read DVD format, extract the digital information, then encode it into a file format that is readable on your personal computer.
4. Insert the DVD into your computer’s DVD drive and follow the instructions. Choose the drive the disc is inserted into.
5. Rename it. Choose the chapters, scenes and audio tracks you want to rip.
6. Click rip or backup Button.
7. Choose a destination folder.
8. Choose whether you want to rip it to files or a single file.The ripping process could produce a dozen or more individual files, so it’s often best to create a new folder on your hard drive for each DVD.
9. This files can later copied to Hard disk or Mobile devices.

Note: If its a commercial movie DVD its probably encrypted so you need decryption DVD ripping software.

If you want to burn the ripped DVD to a fresh 4.7 GB DVD, often you will need to shrink it first, as original DVDs usually contain more than 4.7 GB of data. Use the excellent freeware program DVD Shrink for this. It can produce a ripped DVD directory that fits on a 4.7 GB disk, without discernable change in image or sound quality.