![]() ![]() It all depends how much a product that works flawlessly, quickly, and easily is worth to you - if you can put the time into configuring Handbrake, inputting a new filename for every rip and waiting while it rips at a quarter of WinX’s speed, then save your money. Especially when you consider this program only handles DVDs and DVD ISO files - if you want to deal with Blu-rays or HD files you’ll need its sister product WinX HD Video Converter, or another all-round package like Wondershare Uniconverter. With a full price of $60, WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is a tough sell over the free alternatives. For comparison, an attempt to match the same settings in Handbrake saw an average of 100FPS on the animated disk. This was using the slower, high-quality settings and the high-quality engine, with eight CPU cores and an Nvidia GPU in play. We managed to get a speed of 450 frames per second out of it at peak for a live-action movie, and 500 for an animated disk. There’s hardware acceleration, making use of your PC’s graphics processor and up to eight of its CPU cores to speed the ripping process along. (Image credit: WinX) WinX DVD Ripper Platinum review: SpeedĪs you explore the program, you’ll find there is a bit more to it. Today’s PCs and playback machines should have no problem digesting the highest settings here, but it’s nice to see in case you have something very old you want to play video on. There’s also a slider that lets you choose between a higher quality rip, which is a slower process and produces a larger file, and a lower quality one, which is faster and gets you a smaller file. ![]() These offer choices as to which codec the video is encoded with, and a separate one for the sound. ![]() You are given a choice when it comes to output format, with presets available for Macs, PCs, iPhones, Android, YouTube, Vimeo, and many more. There is an Options button, but pressing it merely gives you the choice of where your ripped video files go, and whether this folder opens at the end of the ripping process. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum has this in spades, presenting you with a simple three-step guide to ripping a DVD, and a couple big friendly blue buttons to do it with. The only reason you’d want to part with cash for something you can get for free is for ease of use, clean interfaces, and user-friendliness. If you’re going to pay for a DVD ripper, then you’re not going to do it in order to buy yet more features and be spammed with ads - free apps such as Freemake Video Converter, have that covered.
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