DVD burners & ripping programs

[Bender]

want a new dvd burner for a machine I'm putting together. was wondering what specific burners (currently available) are good for copying DVDs, not that I would ever do that....

what ripping progs are good these days? couple of years ago I used dvdshrink and also dvd decrypter.

I'm mainly interested in the hardware aspect of all this. What burners get around this stuff better, and do not have any limitations (slowed down ripping, hardware drm built-in, etc)?

[IronMexican]

ConvertXtoDVD is a good ripping program. Very easy to find a Key Gen, too.

[PM5K]

Any DVD burner will work fine. DVDShrink is still good software.

[Bender]

back a few years ago, when I was more into it, I remember the burning forums discussing things like bitsetting, dvd-ram, and some other stuff in regards to which burners handled copying dvds better.

Maybe it doesn't matter anymore.

I'm looking at this cheap one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106289

[PM5K]

DVD-RAM, lol.

[Bender]

yeah, I know... I was just mentioning things I remember being talked about. there were some other subjects but I can't remember what they were.

was wondering about any hardware DRM that some drives have. or maybe windows has drm built-in? I will probably run linux though.

edit: I probably meant dvd-rom, not ram. something about bitsetting and dvd-rom, blah blah.... probably none of that matters anymore.

[PM5K]

Just buy the fricking thing.

[Bender]

yeah, ok.. guess I was just showing my age.

[TDMVPDPOY]

wattabout a good encoding program fellas? from another format to another?