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This software is absolutely the best, it performs any type of task, I use it every day, to copy my discs, to convert audio and video, I insert subtitles, create discs with menus, I can't do without it, this DVDFab is It's incredible, not to mention that it harvests metadata from the internet to personalize my converted movies.

Review by Rogerio Devanir on Mar 3, 2024 Version: 13.0.1.2 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 10/10




good solution to my old DVDs, and their FB staff is friendly to me

Review by mydreamsandhopes on Nov 5, 2023 Version: 13.0.0.3 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by inthemostwantedsea on Nov 5, 2023 Version: 13.0.0.3 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by inthemostwantedsea on Nov 1, 2023 Version: 13.0.0.2 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I've upgraded my DVDFab 12 to DVDFab 13, and the interface has changed significantly. However, it seems more streamlined and straightforward now. I appreciate one particular feature update: on the home main interface, they've divided the Ripper module into four preset functions, including 'Rip to Mobile', 'Rip to Theatre', 'Extract Subtitle', etc. When you choose a specific function, DVDFab automatically selects an appropriate output profile for you; of course, you can also set it according to your preferences. DVDFab is a constantly evolving software. Love their development team.

Review by Jeff on Oct 18, 2023 Version: 13.0.0.0 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by Derek on Apr 12, 2023 Version: 12.1.0.3 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




I have many precious old DVDs, but I'm always worried about them being scratched or lost. Last year, I decided to make copies of those DVDs and tried DVDFab's DVD copy program. It really works, helping me copy my DVDs to my computer at a fast pace. Love it! I know DVDFab also has a ripper that can digitize DVDs; I may try it later.

Review by Wenny on Feb 3, 2023 Version: 12.0.9.3 OS: Windows 10 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




I have many precious old DVDs, but I'm always worried about them being scratched or lost. Last year, I decided to make copies of those DVDs and tried DVDFab's DVD copy program. It really works, helping me copy my DVDs to my computer at a fast pace. Love it! I know DVDFab also has a ripper that can digitize DVDs; I may try it later.

Review by Wenny on Feb 3, 2023 Version: 12.0.9.3 OS: Windows 10 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




Wow, what horrible software. First of all the company invades your computer and spys on everything you do. Even if you don't have the software open they will hijack your computer with popups while you are doing other things to say updates are available. On top of that the few disks I burned has the speech out of synch with the lip movement so aside from them instrusively digging around in your computer at will which is a massive privacy issue, the software doesn't work that great anyway. Im in the process of demanding a refund and I will be stripping any remnants of the software from my computer.

If you value your privacy at ALL you will steer far away from this software.


Review by Doug on Feb 2, 2023 Version: 12.0.9.5 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Can we stop with the fake repetative reviews that are based on the wrong product. DVDFab is not a downloader. It's allegedly a backup program for ripping and copying discs.

This product is invasisve and connects to almost 100 IPs at start up. The amount of telemetry collected far exceeds any "reasonable" limit. These people watch everything this product does, they limit the number of discs you can process in a given period, and they force this pretend "Live update" on you which drives me nuts. A blank window that pops up over the main window every time you start - that seems to send more data than it receives.

The program is riddled with bugs - and often the same bugs are fixed then broken again. It locks your ntuser.dat file and leaves rubbish all over the place. These programmers couldn't follow good coding practices if their life depended on it.

Their customer service is unresponsive, and when you can get a response they are rude and unhelpful. Rarely do they address the concerns you raised when you contacted them.

DVDFab does not produce good quality output and it's mega expensive. It has ads - even when you pay for life time licenses and crashes regularly. The programmers seem to spend more time on thwearting attempts to block it's collecting of personal information than they do on fixing bugs.

This software is eesentially overpriced rubbish.


Review by yanta on Dec 12, 2022 Version: 12.0.9.4 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Hello, wow DVDfab is still around. I have used version 8 for years!
Why version 8? Because version 8 had a thing that you can do. In version 8 the part of the program that writes in the registry asked permission to do so. And you could press no & the rest of the program worked perfectly, but the particular exe that kept track of the trial period in the registry was denied operation. So the trial could basically last "forever". I discovered this completely by accident. I just clicked no on the permission popup out of habit thinking it was some bundleware rubbish. But then I noticed that the trial period never progressed.
Later when I reinstalled dvdfab on a new computer I realized that the permission pop up was actually trying to register the program, and I put 2+2 together, found the registration program in the dvdfab folder & deleted it.

Extra perk to deleting it is you can move/copy the dvdfab folder & it still works, just like a portable program, since it never registers I guess.
Dvdfab people eventualy realized this could happen & changed their program to get rid of that "unintended feature". I notice the download link for version 8 is dead, too bad, but not such a surprise I guess.

But if you have old version 8, cherish it & always keep a backup!


Review by Snoopy on Nov 20, 2022 Version: 8 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Most DVD rips I've done with DVDFab take no more than about 10 minutes or so, while Blu-ray rips typically take about 45 minutes. If it's taking 17 hours to rip a DVD or Blu-ray, then the problem is either with your hardware or the disc, not DVDFab. Is it perfect? Of course not. But, no rip should ever take that long, so you should have tried looking elsewhere for the problem before instantly deciding that it was DVDFab at fault and started ragging on it in a public form. You're doing nothing but making yourself look like an idiot.

Review by MJPollard on Nov 19, 2022 Version: 12.0.9.2 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




I have purchased and downloaded DVDFab with the advertised assurance that it is faster than other DVD rippers. Upon using the program for the first time I am astounded at how S L O W this program is. My very first DVD Rip took 17 hours and 33 minutes to complete. This is simply unacceptable for a paid product. I will be leaving this message to future potential purchasers to NOT buy this product unless they have literally days and days of time to copy their DVDs. I am very dissatisfied with this purchase and I would definitely like a refund. D.P. Keck, donke21@gmail.com

Review by Donald Keck on Nov 19, 2022 Version: 12.0.9.2 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




I would echo the below statements. Used to be really good, but not anymore.

Review by Karl on Nov 17, 2022 Version: 12.0.9.2 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Does not copy German DVDs.

I've tried copying several movies I had rented in Germany, and DVDFab FAILED on each one. The copy process would go all the way through without errors, but when I try to play the DVD, it doesn't play - neither on my PC (VLC Player) nor on my only 1-year-old SONY DVD player by my TV.

Stay away from DVDFab.


Review by AnonymousSpaghettiMonster on Jun 13, 2022 Version: 12.0.7.3 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Rating by AnonymousSpaghettiMonster on Jun 13, 2022 Version: 12.0.7.3 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




This is not a DVDFab discussion forum but having had the rug pulled out from under me for v11 with the certificate having been invalidated; per this event in event log;

The certificate received from the remote server has not validated correctly. The error code is 0x80092013. The TLS connection request has failed. The attached data contains the server certificate.

I was told by DVDFab to upgrade. Upgraded to v12.0.35. And to spend more money on additional licenses to I could test on a different machine without violating the license agreement.

Found over a dozen bugs in the first 30 minutes of testing. One major bug: DVDFab v12.0.3.x doesn't save your settings. Tell it not to use cloud - it uses it anyway. Tell it where log and temp folders are; nope, won't use your settings. Tell it not to display the screen about selling their mobile apps again - nope just ignores the settings.

DVDFab's response: "Thanks for your feedback". No fixes. After spending A$750 on their products they can at least take bug reports seriously and fix the issues.

I am an older person. Dark themes are no good for me. I can't read things. So they have now only offered dark themes or a grey on grey theme that is just as impossible to read.

This product gets worse with every release.

Sure there are currently few or no alternatives - and their exploitation of that fact is disgusting.


Review by Yanta on Jun 28, 2021 Version: 12.0.3.5 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




This will mostly be a response to the 6/19/21 review by Yanta. In regard to the statement about a previously installed v. 11 of the program having been "orphaned" or withdrawn from operation, all I can say is "That's Odd." Because I am using it right now as I type this, everything seemingly going as per usual. I'm still using v. 11 because I did not like several things I read in reviews of v. 12. It is easy enough to say "use something else", but the fact is there are only a very few (like 3, or at most 4 ?) programs in this general category. Ever since RedFox took over, AnyDVD (the company) has an even worse reputation for their business practices than Fengtao does -- and that says a lot. MakeMKV is a good product, but is not sufficient for relying on it exclusively. I have run into a few discs that totally stumped MakeMKV; Fab did somewhat better with those, but I'd have to judge that they foiled Fab as well, all things considered. I'm not really familiar with BDtoAVCHD, and so cannot comment on that . . . but my initial impression was that it was more limited and more difficult to work with that the other two.

Fab was only ever reasonably good at the ripping chore, and finessing the regular copy protection. The other features were more miss than hit. General consensus had it that the supposed remediation of that audio-blanking protection (I'm blanking on the name just now) was merely smoke & mirrors. The only *reliable* fix for that was to play the BR rip via a non-compliant device, like some streaming boxes.

So, take it for what it is. But our options are few here, and I would not want to have to do without Fab entirely. I have not delved into v. 12 so far, and am not in any hurry to do so.


Review by Seeker47 on Jun 28, 2021 Version: 11.0.24 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 8/10




DVDFab's new versions are always full of issues. Since releasing v12 in October 2020 their change log shows 78 bugs fixed. Some of those have existed since 12.0.0 was released. I tended to stay on the previous version whilst they got they act together (I should say whilst their paying customers endured months of issues and did their testing for them). This is not new, I've been with them for over a decade and nothing has improved, indeed things have gotten worse.

When you buy a license you are no longer able to test new versions independently of your current license, unless you pay more money on top of the absurd amounts you've already paid. I paid A$700 for two lifetime license (Because they added products and individual purchases was even more expensive). One version on one PC. Given their new releases are abhorrent it makes sense to test it before loading it on a production PC. Nope not allowed. You have to blindly take a leap of faith and just pray it works, coz once you've upgraded you can't go back.

Of the 150 programs I have to test and manage DVDFab is the only program I can't test without violating their license agreement.

They recently "banned" v11 so that you can no longer run it. Without any notification or professional courtesy telling people that they were going to do it so people could start testing and migrating.

It's not as if the quality of the output is great. And bugs I've reported as much as 5 years ago remain outstanding. Please their Cinavia claims are just totally untrue, until you read the fine print you will be misled in to thinking they've got you covered.

Do yourself a favor - find a different product. I'm sure there are a bunch a free products around that work better and are not as restrictive. I know I'm going to start weaning off DVDFab.


Review by Yanta on Jun 19, 2021 Version: 11.1.0.7 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 3/10 Functionality: 2/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 2/10




Well, that's really ODD!!! I just install the latest DVDFab v12.0.2.7 this morning and 6hrs ago I used the UHD Creator and it worked perfectly 100%... hmmm... I have used DVDFab for YEARS without any problems and it always works as described!!! System Update maybe? Know what other 3rd party software NOT to install on your system would be another solution, maybe. So many people have problems, so called with this software, for unknown reasons, while it always performs excellent here. Scratching my head as to WHY???

Review by SparkyKid on Apr 28, 2021 Version: DVDFab 12.0.2.7 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 6/10 Overall: 8/10




Horrible program. Every time there is an update to fix one issue they end up messing 10 other functions.
This time UHD Creator and Blu-Ray Creator do not work. Every time I try to use it, the project stays stuck at 19%.
Come on you people get with it and give us our money back. This is a worthless program.
Like I said before, it's ONLY good to back up discs, everything else is a FAIL!


Review by tmelo67 on Apr 28, 2021 Version: 12.0.2.7 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 4/10 Functionality: 2/10 Value for money: 2/10 Overall: 2/10




The reviews here of version 12__ have steered me away from attempting to use it. I continue using a couple of the 11.x versions, up through the aforementioned 11.0.51. This vintage of the software can be quite useful -- as one available option -- with the proviso that more current disc releases are apt to outstrip what it is capable of handling. (I have come across occasional discs that NO program I know of has been able to handle properly.) But, if the prospects are limited, you might as well give it a shot. For Blu-Ray, I generally default to using MakeMKV. If you go to turn a rip into MKV, MakeMKV is one of the programs which complains that your rip must have been made with Fab, with said rip likely to have serious defects. (Could be true ? Make of that what you will . . . ) For DVD, I am more and more defaulting to use of Digiarty / Win-X Copy Pro, which usually seems to do a pretty good job. (I don't know why that program is not reviewed here.)

When successive versions of a program show ever-declining ratings, that has to be troubling.


Review by Seeker47 on Apr 9, 2021 Version: 11.0.51 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 6/10




Don't bother with this poor overrated software. Has failed numerous times to do its job of removing encryption and in this latest version. Also big on using system resources.

Review by S.L on Mar 2, 2021 Version: 12.0.1.9 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Weak software. Defeated by BD+ protection from a 2018 disc. Can't access forums even if you try and reset password, so in other words you're screwed. Made the mistake and bought the All-in-One software 2 wks ago for $260+ USD and it fails to work on a 3-year old blu-ray. The forums aren't kept up (you can't even access them), the product not working, despite the latest update 26-Feb-21, and they still haven't given me the promo gift card from the time of purchase. Can't recommend this software or company.

Review by 405nmdiode on Feb 28, 2021 Version: DVDFab 12.0.1.9 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Used to be a respected company but the reviews say it all. Support and tactics similar to AnyDVD. Both deserving to be hacked by North Korean hackers.

Review by Nolan on Dec 12, 2020 Version: 12.x OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Absolute HORRIBLE customer service. No response.
Program can't even be registered after another new installation "Failure to connect to the internet. Please try again".
DVDFab.com is up and running, my internet is working fine. Are they getting back at me for posting a bad review?
Well, will see.


Review by tmelo67 on Dec 11, 2020 Version: 12.0.1.2 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




This program keeps getting mediocre every time there's an update.
Instead of getting better it gets worse.
Paid almost $300 for this software and I regret it everyday. The only thing it really does work well is decrypting, that's it. The rest is GARBAGE.
Since the last update I get disc errors I never got before with discs that used to work fine, burning discs? FORGET IT! Burns but unplayable, just a black screen using PowerDVD.
I went as far as reinstalling my OS but did not help. It's not my PC, it's a decent set up: i9 9900K, 32 Gb RAM, MSI MPG Z390M motherboard, NVidia GTX 1050 Ti, all with latest drivers and updates.
Even reinstalling the program itself every time there's new update doesn't help either (even after cleaning Registry and junk files).

My advice? STAY AWAY from this software unless you opt for the decrypting part of it only.


Review by tmelo67 on Dec 11, 2020 Version: 12.0.1.2 OS: Windows 10 Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 3/10 Value for money: 3/10 Overall: 3/10




The mpeg2 and vob profile is missing.
It lacks the ability to vary the aspect ratio in 16: 9 by stretching the image without cropping the details without maintaining the aspect ratio.


Review by jopavirando on Oct 17, 2020 Version: 12.0.0.1 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 6/10 Overall: 6/10




As for the video edit in the converter section, the interface of version 10 was much more comfortable and easy to use.

Review by jopavirando on Oct 17, 2020 Version: 12.0.0.1 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 7/10




Every new version brings with a less functional, less appealing UI. Seems the developers must be bored. I don't know why, they move to a new version without ever fully addressing bugs in the previous version. Reporting the bugs just seem to get ignored.

This software will leave folders all over your PC inf you don't configure it not to. It creates a folder in %APPDATA% every time you run it. Very messy software

Every action you perform with this software is tracked and recorded on their servers and a bunch of CDNs such as Akamai and AmazonAWS. They limit how many discs you can process per week and send this software seems to be moving to a totally cloud based service that just chats over your internet connection incessantly.

The Cinavia removal never works, and personally I think their claims about Cinavia removal are outright false and deceptive. Of the 300 hundred or so discs I wanted to remove Cinavia from only is supported after several years.

I spent over $600 on this software and still get flooded with ads every time I run it. Nags to upgrade to a lifetime package that I have already purchased - twice.

Given the long list of bugs, the current direction this software is taking, I'm afraid this software will be going into the dumpster very soon.


Review by Yanta on Oct 12, 2020 Version: 12.0.0.1 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 3/10 Functionality: 3/10 Value for money: 2/10 Overall: 1/10




It works well for ripping, however I paid for the Cinavia Removal part as well and on the past few releases it has not worked at all. The titles I am trying to beat Cinavia on are all supported per their forum. I have verified I have the setting enabled to remove it. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the software, verified my install is registered but nothing. Forums are of no use as my account was perma-banned and clicking the link to appeal it is just a black hole. What else can I say? The ripping part is good but the compression is bad. They do not allow you to change encoding speeds to do slower encoding for better quality. Most of the free tools seem to do a better job (for free). I am mostly just irritated by the lack of support and not sure I'd trust giving my CC info to a Chinese company either. Thanks.

Review by stonesfan187 on Oct 2, 2020 Version: 11.1.0.7 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 7/10




Watermarks

Review by Fish on Sep 10, 2020 Version: 11.1.0.6 OS: Windows 10 Ease of use: 3/10 Functionality: 3/10 Value for money: 3/10 Overall: 3/10




DVDFab is a pile of crap. I bought the Enlarge AI module thinking that was all I needed to enhance video. Then I discovered I needed the Converter fo the Enlarge AI module to run. There are four AI settings. Two for MKV and two for MP4. Each of the two has one 4K option, but the MP4 4K just produces exactly the same 1024p conversion. Using the 4K conversion (which doesn't produce 4K) the full screen rendering of the higher resolution video looked exactly the same. There was NO improvement to quality. It took ages to produce something that was identical to the orignal. I have seen no independent reviews that rate this product and any of it's modules any higher than shit. You can do everything DVDFab does for one tenth of the price, faster and better, using the Wondershare Uniconverter. Don't touch this crap.

Review by Astrokey on Apr 15, 2020 Version: 11.0.8.4 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




I've been using DVDFab for a couple of weeks now and find it's the best product I've used for ripping DVD and Blu-ray discs so far.
I was so impressed when using the trial that I decided to buy the lifetime option for the software (which gives you almost every possible option it has).

Admittedly, I was a bit discouraged when I found there was a limit to the number of Blu-ray rips you can do per week, as I'm working on getting my entire DVD & Blu-ray collection ripped and on the NAS I just built for my Plex Media Server. That being said, it's going to take me a while, but the limit is only for Blu-ray and not DVD, so when I hit this limit, I just continue to rip and add DVDs only until I can do Blu-rays again.

There are some discs that it simply cannot get around copy protection on (Make MKV fails on these same discs) and I've run into a few where I got a "disc read error" about 80% into the ripping process. But hey, no software is going to be 100%, right?

Overall, I'd say I'm extremely pleased with it and there's already been 2 software updates in the past 2 weeks (they brag that there are about 50 updates per year). Well worth the money I spent on it!


Review by djomega971 on Mar 24, 2020 Version: 11.0.8.1 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Buyer beware////I didn't know at the time when I purchased this that there is a limit of 70 disc a week...Once you hit the 70 disc limit the software is crippled.....I think it needs to be posted in big letters on their web site...just an FYI and the reason for the low score in value for the money...

Review by Headhunter on Jan 25, 2020 Version: 11.0.6.9 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 2/10




Still the best for what it does. It has improved a lot of the years.

Review by hardy on Oct 10, 2019 Version: 11.0.5.4 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by hardy on Oct 10, 2019 Version: 11.0.5.4 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I used the trial version of BluRay Copy with only a few problems. It would NOT copy a multi episode BR to DVD completely. After several emails back and forth with tech help, I finally figured the solution on my own. Episodes HAVE to be copied separately. No big deal. Copying a single movie BR to DVD was easy and fairly quick. So I decided to purchase a lifetime BluRay Copy. The program recognized that I had paid for a full version but would not let me use it. Kept saying that the "Trial version had expired" and I would have to pay. After 3 days of trying to get it to work, with several emails to (haha) tech support, I demanded a refund. I'm pretty sure that "Tech Support" is actually customer service. Vivian had less knowledge about the product than I. She kept wanting me to try things that I'd already tried over & over. Totally worthless. WHY does this version keep topping all the online reviews?? Boggles the mind! I'm supposed to see a refund within 2 weeks time. I'll update the progress of that as necessary. Thanks for letting me vent!

Review by robbie on Jun 26, 2019 Version: 11.0.3.6 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Dude, if you paid 300 dollars for a lifetime subscription you must have money to burn. Most of these overseas companies are rip offs. AnyDVD resurrected suckered loads too. An expensive lesson I think. Crapware.

Review by Jim on May 9, 2019 Version: 11.x OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Dude, if you paid 300 dollars for a lifetime subscription you must have money to burn. Most of these overseas companies are rip offs. AnyDVD resurrected suckered loads too. An expensive lesson I think. Crapware.

Review by Jim on May 9, 2019 Version: 11.x OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




My lifetime subscription became discontinued. I paid over $300 for it and now they won't even acknowledge I exist. By the minimum needed, the lifetime appears to be a rip-off as I'm clearly alive as well as them.

Review by Divitom on May 3, 2019 Version: All OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Rating by Marc on Apr 4, 2019 Version: 11.0.2.3 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




I've been using this package for almost a decade. It's crashed on me maybe a dozen times over that period. I can live with that. Fixes for such crashes are usually released pretty quickly.

My only beefs with the software are (1). It never fills a disk. Blu-rays are always 22.2 or 22.1gb. When ripping, I get a better quality rip from MakeMKV. And (2). It's prohibitively expensive. I paid for a lifetime AIO license back in 2012 @ $329. To add the new packages it would cost me almost double that now. (Prices quoted in AUD).

Not as absurdly expensive as DeUHD and AnyDVD HD (Yes, I know they are not the same thing), but expensive nonetheless.

I also find it misleading that DVDFab also claim to have a Cinavia solution. The claims would lead any naive or unsuspecting person to believe that Cinavia can be defeated on all of their media. Not so. I have 3,500 movies in my collection and about five have Cinavia removed by DVDFab because it is still a manual process and they just don't do the movies I have, which are typically the big name movies.

I rarely use DVDFab now, finding MakeMKV, BDtoAVCHD and Handbrake to be better suited to my expectations and needs


Review by Yanta on Sep 2, 2018 Version: 10.2.1.3 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 3/10 Overall: 6/10




To all those who criticize this software tell me with which software you can make copies of Blu-ray with the latest protections?
Why when a software is paying it is necessarily bad.
To copy latest DVDs and Blu-rays you have to go through the purchase box it's as simple as that.
I have been using DVDFab since 2004-2005 and since then I have been at 6 or ....... 7000 backups without worries.
The encoding quality of a BLU-ray in a mkv of 4go is not as good as you would expect ? No problem just make a 1/1 backup and go through BDRebuilder


Review by jososo on Sep 2, 2018 Version: 10.2.1.3 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Works fine.

To use the free decrypter, just close all the message windows at the beginning.

It works very well on the few BR i tried (but i don't buy the most recent stuff).

BTW I use this exclusively to be able to watch HD movies on non-BR hardware strictly privately, without sharing or pirating in any way.
Just saying.


Review by Mikel on Jul 6, 2018 Version: 10.0.9.9 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




It just don't work. I tried with several blu ray discs, got only messages that the pricess wasn't successful. Tried to get a refund, their policy is to steal money, no refund ever. Bad company, worst products. I suppose that possitive commments are actually fake.

Review by Vlad on Jun 19, 2018 Version: Dvdfab 10.0.9.7 OS: Windows 10 Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Rating by x264 on Mar 10, 2018 Version: 10.0.8.4 / 10.0.8.5 Beta OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by on Dec 28, 2017 Version: 10.0.7.4 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 9/10




The link posted here 28/9/2017 for download of Windows v10.0.6.2 x64 actually downloads v10.0.5.9 x64. The ~x86 link does download the correct version though. Needs fixing.

Review by TheDoctor on Sep 27, 2017 Version: 10.0.6.2 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 7/10




The settings for encoding are very little, no finetuning. The quality of the vidoes is very very bad. All freeware tools are much better

Review by Micky on Sep 27, 2017 Version: DVDFab 10.0.6.2 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Become bloatware, awful video encoding quality output. Crashes a lot too as it eats up memory and resources. Too pricey, better off with good freeware like WinX DVD Ripper or an AnyDVD trial than this rubbish.

Review by SalX on Jul 27, 2017 Version: 10.0.48 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 2/10




DVDFab is good for breaking copy protections and to copy DVDs / Blu-rays to harddisk.
Encoding quality is a joke - freeware tools are much better. Poor encoding quality with XviD / H.264!


Review by Joe A. on Jul 25, 2017 Version: 10.0.4.8 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 4/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 6/10




The resulting quality of an encode is very poor, the backing up of a DVD etc is quite good(however it cannot handle everything and often freezes or crashes!), as the program keeps demanding huge memory and system resources with each update churned out by this rubbish company.

Review by Mal on Jul 24, 2017 Version: 10.0.48 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 2/10




I've tried using 9221 beta still doesn't remove Cinavia. Tried it for Jurassic World and Furious 7. I bought both of them. Any help would be appreciated.

Review by rht42455 on Dec 22, 2015 Version: 9221 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 1/10




This is an update regarding my Post #67 "by digitaljar". I had to uninstall and then reinstall the software and registered my lifetime key again. The software is back to normal.

Review by digitaljar on Jun 24, 2015 Version: 9.2.0.2 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Terrible update! I purchased a lifetime license for Blu-Ray to DVD and now the iso option is not working, instead it will convert to vob. Also, incorrect path destination from what I chose; I out put all files to another hard drive but the software decides to keep it at default and send it to the dvdfab9 folder on C drive...annoying bug.

Review by digitaljar on Jun 13, 2015 Version: 9.2.0.2 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 4/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 7/10




Trying to copy Divergent claims to have successfully copied the full disc but when I go to burn the DVD I get the following:
One or more files (mostly Vob file(s)) do not belong to the corresponding IFO file.
Did I do something wrong or is this version of DVDFab 9.1.6.0 not able to copy the full disc?


Review by dubcek on Aug 7, 2014 Version: dvdfab 9.1.6.0 beta OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




The removal of decryption capabilities for BD/DVD does not affect licensed versions of the software, only the (U.S.) free version.

Review by mail2tom on Jul 22, 2014 Version: 9.1.5.8 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




There are two versions of DVDFab, the International Edition which does decrypt, and the U.S. Edition which does not decrypt and is essentially useless.

The international version that can decrypt cannot be sold or distributed in the U.S. due to the pending AACS-LA vs. DVDFab lawsuit in the U.S. District Court.

If you live in the U.S. you can download the full featured international version by using a VPN or proxy set to a country other than the U.S. The File Hashes for international version 9.1.5.7 are:
CRC32: C6CD900B
MD5: 78409D2BEF283D4F2136E7A2DAA90A80
SHA-1: 75E9CB68B3416405126B5368D730F8F7B293A938

DVDFab straightened out their GUI, it's now easy to navigate around it, and the international version works good. It decrypted all the DVDs and Blu-rays I used with it so far.


Review by Peppino on Jul 22, 2014 Version: 9.1.5.7 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Note that due to Fengtao's ongoing dispute with AACS-LA, DVDFab starting with version 9.1.5.0 has removed the ability to decrypt Blu-ray discs (and DVDFab itself is no longer offered for sale in the USA), hence the low scores for functionality and value for the money. I've used DVDFab for many years for ripping DVDs, supported them by purchasing a full-functionality lifetime license, and looked forward to being able to rip my growing collection of Blu-ray discs, but with this version, I've essentially paid a lot of money for a crippled product. If you need to rip Blu-rays, you should look into other products such as AnyDVD HD, at least until this mess is sorted out.

Review by MJPollard on May 30, 2014 Version: 9.1.5.0 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 5/10




Don't get me wrong, DVDFab is one of the two best ripping apps, the other being AnyDVD/CloneDVD but I hate the new GUI. It's tedious and cumbersome to move around in. Every thing seems like it's hidden and the preview screen is very small with tiny controls and you get eye strain when moving around between titles and chapters. I much prefer the old GUI, clean and neat and much easier to navigate in. I reverted back to version 9.0.7.2 which is the last version that has the old GUI, and I give that a 9/10.

Review by Peppino on Mar 21, 2014 Version: 9.1.3.6 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 5/10




Tried the free HD Decrypter 9.1.3.1 as V1de0Luv mentioned on Hunger Games-Catching Fire and it read the disc fine so it would seem that I have a problem with DVDFab I might have to reinstall it or else there is a problem with DVDFab itself for version 9.1.3.1.
But for now I am pleased that the free version worked for me.


Review by dubcek on Mar 9, 2014 Version: 9.1.3.1 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




Check your disk to make sure it is clean then try to rip to hard drive again, I did the bluray with no problem.

Review by tarzan54 on Mar 8, 2014 Version: 9.1.3.1 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Yes, there is a problem with Hunger Games Catching Fire, but I had no problem reading the DVD I got from Red Box using the Free version HD Decrypter. The problem I had was that VidCoder could not identify the correct VTS for the main movie. I manually joined the VOBs into one big VOB and compressing that to MKV with Handbrake.

Review by V1de0Luvr on Mar 8, 2014 Version: 9.1.3.1 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Won't do Full Disc copy of Hunger Games - Catching Fire gets to 93% analysing disc and then a dialogue box pops up with an error reading disc message even though it is claimed this version will copy this disc.

Review by dubcek on Mar 8, 2014 Version: 9.1.3.1 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




Very faulty program, absolutely no support.
Much better programs out there.
Save your money.


Review by Spirillen on Dec 23, 2013 Version: 9 OS: MacOSX Ease of use: 2/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 2/10 Overall: 1/10




The DVDFab 9 series was working OK with Windows XP SP3 up through version 9.0.6.3 then quit. The 9.0.7.2 version installs but won't run, no error messages. The latest 9.1.0.5 version produces an exception error message during installation and when attempting to run. I wonder if it could be a new "unstated" .NET requirement. I only have .NET 2.0 installed...

Review by JohnnyBob on Nov 14, 2013 Version: 9.1.0.5 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




I had one goal in mind. To create BlyRay like quality of video and HD sound something like 7.1 MA DTS-HD or TrueHD in single MKV file library so I can use XBMC is user interface to play them all. And this program indeed allows me to do just that. As of version 9.0.7.0 you can select any bluray ISO or just a m2ts file and select passtrough in video and you'll get exact copy of BluRay in about 10 minutes you'll get nice mkv with hd sound. Before this version you had to use H.264 codec and you could control bit rate to make file smaller but as stated before I wanted an exact BluRay quality and now you can. Also with H.264 you'll need around 6 hours to make 1 mkv, but with video copy you'll make same mkv in about 10 mins. :D Amazing program. IF you have hard drive space and you want to make MKV library and enjoy watching it do what I did and use it and abuse it !

Here is an example of my latest creation in numbers:

General
Unique ID : 250512564030961594255191045822412280007 (0xBC76F7007DC06119955BCE1DA990D0C7)
Complete name : W:\MAN_OF_STEEL.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 26.3 GiB
Duration : 2h 23mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 26.4 Mbps
Movie name : MAN_OF_STEEL
Encoded date : UTC 2013-10-19 22:05:27
Writing application : DVDFab
Writing library : libebml v0.7.8 + libmatroska v0.8.1

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 23mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile : MA / Core
Mode : 16
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2h 23mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : Unknown / 1 509 Kbps
Channel(s) : 8 channels / 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, Back: L R, LFE / Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless / Lossy
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

As you can see file is only 26.3GB with one 7.1 HD Track on it and AVC video quality untouched straight from BluRay. And it took around 11 minutes on my i7 920 @ 3.33 Ghz OC CPU and with help of HD6970 GPU to do the job.

Good luck !


Review by XAKEP on Oct 19, 2013 Version: 9.0.7.2 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Nice software but still there is no fix for back up 3d blurays for ps3. :( The picture still freze on ps3.

Review by slobadaca on Sep 9, 2013 Version: 9.0.6.3 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 2/10 Overall: 10/10




I've never had an issue with DVDFab when backing up a DVD or Blu-ray. It's simple enough for my sister to use to backup her DVD movies as protection from her grandchildren. I recently upgraded to the all-in-one to use the video converter option, specifically for my Hauppauge 1212 HD-PVR h264 captures in 1080i/720p. The converter fails on this file type, and by this I mean the progress indicator never goes above 0% completion even after hours, and no file is produced. If I feed the converter an x264 AVI it has no problem, so it looks like the the software has issues with the h264 video from the Hauppauge. I checked their forum but there appears to be no answers to multiple people reporting the converter failure. So for those looking to use this feature be advised that it looks like it's currently a work in progress.

Review by mail2tom on Jan 18, 2012 Version: 8.1.5.8 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




very poor encode quauilty simply not worth the money

Review by dessieclive on Oct 12, 2011 Version: 8.1.2.6 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 4/10 Overall: 7/10




This is a very good decrypter. As a DVD copier/transcoder it's kind of useless.

Problem is, it doesn't have a 2 pass mode for reencoding or transcoding DVDs. You cannot get high quality results without 2 pass.

Fortunately there's a good solution which does make DVDFab useful. It does involve an extra step, and an extra up to 8 and a half gigs spare drive space, but it's not slower.

First use DVDFab as a decrypter (the free part). Send the output to a folder in DVD9 mode. It'll just do a bit copy and strip out the copy protection.

Then use that as input to DVD Shrink. This is free but doesn't always decrypt newer DVDs like Disney since it's notn supported anymore. But in every other way it's far superior. It does 2 pass (they call it deep analysis mode) and will also apply sharpen or soften effects. The latter is very useful if you want to compress a movie that is 2 1/2 hour or more.

This sounds like it'd be slower but it isn't, though there's an extra step. Just taking out the copy protection is pretty fast, and then the optical drive isn't used until you want to burn the new DVD. Doing the encoding from the HD speeds up the process a lot.

So yes, I use DVDFab, and I'd recommend it, but only the decrypter part. Fortunately that's the free part.


Review by Hoser Rob on Sep 4, 2011 Version: 8 point something OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 2/10 Overall: 5/10




DVDFab is the premiere software that bypasses DVD/Blu-ray encryption and I've been using it successfully for years. However, with my recent induction in the world of Blu-ray copying, I had to look for an alternative program to condense Blu-ray movies larger than a 25GB BD-R to fit since DVDFab's quality is pretty horrendous. I posed the question in another rival Blu-ray copying program's forum by the name of MultiAVCHD, which is a fine FREE program but the instructions the developer has written aren't very clear nor are they complete as he is from another country. When I asked about the best quality of all the programs, someone mentioned BD Rebuilder which is another FREE program and I thought I'd give it a try. Boy, was I pleasantly surprised and extremely satisfied!! BD Rebuilder is far superior to DVDFab when it comes to shrinking or condensing larger sized movies to fit on 25GB BD-Rs retaining the quality of the original Blu-ray film.

To prove to myself there was a definite difference, I did a comparison of the movie "The A-Team" condensed to fit on a 25GB BD-R with just video and the DTS audio track on DVDFab vs. BD Rebuilder...

"The A-Team" condensed to fit on 25GB BD-R with DVDFab

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/cashflow71/TheA-TeamDVDFab.jpg


"The A-Team" condensed to fit on 25GB BD-R with BD Rebuilder

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/cashflow71/TheA-TeamBDRebuilder.jpg

As you can see, the DVDFab version looks horribly washed out with blacks crushed whereas the BD Rebuilder version looks robust, crystal clear, the blacks are consistently black and the scene is full of color just like the original disc.


Review by SuperFist on Mar 21, 2011 Version: 8.0.8.5 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 4/10 Overall: 7/10




Wanted a free app to backup with minor re-authoring (trimming front and end and commercials removal) of DVDs which DVD Shrink 3.2 could not handle and the puffs for DVDFab indicated that commercials could be removed and trimming done, however in DVD Copy mode and its sub-sets I find the start and end timings adjustable only per chapter - not much use for a one Title with no Chapters 43 minutes DVD created from an online rip of a VHS tape.

Back to the likes of RipIt4Me and Smartripper?


Review by Panopticon on Feb 11, 2011 Version: 8.0.7.3 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 4/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 5/10




I have been using DVDFab for several years. It’s the easiest to use compared to other programs and you can’t tell the difference between the compressed video output and the original when backing up your DVDs. If you have an issue or problem, tech support is quick to respond to your e-mails. I highly recommend it.

Review by judo54 on Dec 25, 2010 Version: 8.0.6.2 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Cropping is still not fixed! Been broken for 5 months now.

Version 8 is a total failure.


Review by Up2NoGood on Nov 8, 2010 Version: 8.0.3.5 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




The movie Agora, when converted to MKV or .VOB the file will not play on Nero Showtime or on the Western Digital Media Player unless you drag the play bar. I then tried using "MAKE MKV" program and the end of the equal sign is the same outcome, the movie will not play unless you drag the play bar. I tried using "DVDFAB PASS KEY 7" re-coded the file in Nero and then convert to MKV using "DVDFAB 8" and the same issue occurred.

Agora can be copied to DVD media and the movie will play without issues. I tried to convert the movie to AVI and of course the movie will not play unless you drag the play bar. I think this could be a new protection in the making.


Review by dvdsham on Nov 2, 2010 Version: 8.0.3.2 OS: Vista Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 7/10




Not working with the new movie Toy Story 3. We need an update!

Review by Ally68 on Nov 2, 2010 Version: 8.0.3.2 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 10/10




Cuda is still not working 100%. It's a lottery, works every other time.

Cropping is no longer working which makes this tool useless.


Review by Up2NoGood on Oct 26, 2010 Version: 8.0.2.9 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




This is the best version of FAB I have ever used!! This version is still simple to rip and convert. I have the Western Digital TV LIVE Network Player and the MKV converter tool in FAB makes it fast and easy to convert while ripping DVDS without time code errors. This version is worth the $50.00 and makes a great investment which I will be buying and I hope Fantigo software accepts pre-paid visa because I never use my actual VISA credit card for online purchases.

Review by dvdsham on Sep 14, 2010 Version: 8.0.0.5 OS: Vista Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Framerate change in dpg profile has no influence on the final encoded file, it's always same as source.
Subtitle size is not changeable, at low resolutions it's to big and to small at higher resolutions.


Review by ulapines on Jun 10, 2010 Version: 7.0.6.7 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 7/10




Works as advertised. Been using it for years now without issues.

The only knock I have against it is the subscription approach.

Not sure what the previous reviewer doubleBB is talking about. DVDFab is a decrypter not an h264 encoder. Maybe he or she got mixed up and put a review for some other software app.


Review by bits on Dec 30, 2009 Version: 6.2.1.6 Beta OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 10/10




I must admit that for MP4 H.264 Handbrake is doing the same job.
But if you are a newby... it is extermally simple to use.


Review by doubleBB on Dec 25, 2009 Version: 2.6.1.5 OS: Vista Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 8/10




Won't remove region-code commands from Star Trek (2009).

Review by ntscuser on Oct 28, 2009 Version: 6.1.2.5 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




At first I used DVDFab 5 to rip scratched DVDs because DVD Decrypter has no facility to skip bad sectors. Later when I experimented with encoding I tried DVDFab which is a fairly respectable video encoder, and unlike freeware like AutoGK or WinFF can be easily customised by the newbie. Its only real weakness is a lack of any option to de-interlace, and default settings (eg. the framerate) that may only increase the encoding time and produce worse results.
It has the ability to encode a DVD on the fly but I still prefer to rip and then encode (usually with Nero Recode) to save wear and tear on the DVD drive.

Nero Recode can encode a DVD into its "standard" format very quickly but grinds to a comparative halt when encoding to H264, DVDFab seems to have the edge here as it can encode to H246 and AAC in a reasonable timeframe. However when Nero Recode's 2-pass is so quick and it can intelligently resize, I usually use that (I wish newbies who squash full-res video into a few hundred megabytes did too). For encoding for uploading to the internet, I would probably use DVDFab 5 as it can encode in common formats like xvid and mp3, even if I have to guess the most appropriate size and aspect ratio. I recently discovered that DVDfab can extract the audio from a DVD, much easier than using DVD Decrypter.


Review by Diceman on Oct 2, 2009 Version: 5.0 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 9/10




MISS CHIEVOUS, I am not sure if you are looking in the proper location. My DVDFab (version 6) has the option to save as an ISO, located at the target buttons, which is placed below the source button.

Hope this help.


Review by Wink Dinkerson on Sep 10, 2009 Version: 6.0.6.0 OS: Vista Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




NO ISO IMAGE CREATION. With all the conversion features crowding this program you'd think the authors could manage to fit one lousy "Save to an ISO file" option. $50, and it can't even generate an image file? It's inexcusable.

Review by MISS CHIEVOUS on Sep 10, 2009 Version: 6.0.6.0 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 5/10




To get the mobile option to never expire go to the DVDFab web site. Click on the Support tab. Now click on the Lost your registration key link and fill in the info requested to have your key resent to you. The key that you get is different from the version 5 one. Open DVDFab 6 paste in this new key and your mobile option will show never expire again. I haven't had time to try out the new version yet, but it looks pretty good.

Review by KTH on May 19, 2009 Version: 6.0.1.0 OS: Vista Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 6/10 Overall: 7/10




(A) If you'd read the support forum, this is a known bug. Your lifetime key will still work as it always did once the bug is fixed.

(B) 6.0.0.0 is a beta. Expect bugs.

(C) Repeat step (B) until it sinks in.


Review by MJPollard on Apr 27, 2009 Version: 6.0.0.0 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




On DVDFab 5 I had Mobile Option, Never Expire, Enabled.

On DVDFab 6 I am Mobile Option, Trail User, Expires in 30 Days.

So much for, "For registered users of DVDFab Platinum/Gold, your key is still valid for version 6, and all features are same as version 5 or more than it."


Review by misterbill on Apr 27, 2009 Version: 6.0 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 7/10




Tried twice now updated from 5.2.3.2 to 5.2.5.0 something is wrong thinking i will try a beta between them and see if that changes.but still love the program.

Review by plcpower on Apr 25, 2009 Version: 5.2.5.0 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Not sure why plcpower is having problems but obviously others are not as he is the only one stating that it closes.

I have ripped several disc's with this version and it works perfectly fine.
Also one of my buddies has been using the "mobile" conversion on quite a few versions for his Ipod Touch with zero issues.


Review by Noahtuck on Apr 24, 2009 Version: 5.2.5.0 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




love this program but this version needs to be fixed it scans the disc then just closes,I'll go back one version.thanks

Review by plcpower on Apr 23, 2009 Version: 2.2.5.0 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Great for DVD backup--However, it does not or support blu-ray as they suggest on the download page--It recognizes my drive when I have a dvd in it, but blu-ray it disappears.

Review by headhunter03 on Dec 28, 2008 Version: 5.2.2.2 OS: Vista Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 4/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 6/10




Not bad for newbies. The "mobile option" isn't very popular with ffmpeg as you can see the company is listed on ffmpeg's Hall of Shame page: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/shame.html

Review by VirtualDoobMon on Aug 19, 2008 Version: 5.0.8.8 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 4/10 Overall: 7/10




Excellent little program, thoroughly capable of everything it says it will do and more. My only little niggle at present is a small problem using DVD-R's, as it appears to be a little bit choosy at times when burning, but it could just be a slight hiccough with my machine.

Otherwise full marks, and thoroughly recommended.


Review by Meld9003 on Feb 29, 2008 Version: 4.0.6.2 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




In producing backups of my DVD (original) movies, including Pirates 3 (At World's End) in this instance, I used ProData DVR+R DL media with a MID of RICOHJPNSD0 (43h), which had served me well. The 3.x trial DVDFabPlatinum (can't remember exactly which one) of DVDFab Platinum had produced quite a few anomalies, skipping up to 15 seconds of the film at times. The 4.0.1.2 version produced much less, and the 4.0.1.6 (beta) version was almost perfect ... just a few stutters at the layer break, but no lost frames.

After receiving a prompt response from the vendor about my problem, I went out and bought some Verbatim DVR+R DL (2.4 - 6/8/10) Singapore stuff with MID of MKM001 (00h) and it burned and played perfectly. And some 2 minutes faster than the 8x ProData media.

So it looks (from my viewpoint) that 4.0.1.6 version is ready for prime time.

Morals: Memorex = Total Crap, ProData = not too bad, Verbatim = excellent, DVDFab = best value for the money.


Review by burpnrun on Dec 13, 2007 Version: 4.0.1.6 beta OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




FAB is an excellent backup choice. Quick, works nicely with IDE and SATA drives. Simple yet has enough options to keep even the pros happy.

Review by kip on Nov 11, 2007 Version: 4.0.0.8 OS: Vista Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Hi
Just used the latest version 3.1.9.0 DVD FabPlatinum to convert a 2Hour 45min movie to a 700Mb file using the X264 codec. The conversion took only 1Hour 40Min using my Intel Dual Core laptop and the result was fantastic. Great work guys.


Review by mesaboogieman on Sep 15, 2007 Version: 3.1.9.0 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




DVD FAB Gold worked perfect up to version 3.0.9.8. After this version it will only burn coasters on my system. Support is terrible, and they keep saying it is my system. I continue to use the old version 3.0.9.8 with no problems. The response I get every time I report is as follows:
I forwarded your letter to our tech team. They will check the problem. Please wait for our new version.
Any questions in future, please feel free to contact us.
Sincerely,
Ada Fang
DVDIdle Support Team


Review by Todd_Anderson on Jul 25, 2007 Version: Any above 3.0.9.8 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




What an excellent tool this is. After the demise of original Decrypter, this came along to fill the gap. More than that, its resilience to bad disks is impressive. If I can't get a disk to rip with DVD Decrypter or DVD Shrink, FAB saves the day. I can get even really bad disks to rip with it. I just wish we could rip to an ISO file like old Decrypter used to!

Review by davewhite122000 on Jul 5, 2006 Version: 2.9.8.0 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Converts excellent for playing DVD on PC. Final DVD+R will not play at all on one of my DVD players (no disc), and with difficulties on the other (I needed to skip to section 2 and then rewind to play).

Tested on two DVDs, one region 1 and one region 2.


Review by sverre33 on Feb 18, 2006 Version: 2.9.7.2 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 4/10 Value for money: 4/10 Overall: 4/10




been using this for a long time; only negative issue I have is when you split to two disc and use the FAB screen instead of a blank screen, it seems to alway ask you to insert disc one a couple of tmes after you put disc 2 in your player. If you ignore this reqest to insert disc 1 it wll go ahead and ply the second disc wth no further issues; seems that this bug creeps back into the software every few updates and then they fix it for a while and the cycle starts over again.

Review by kip on Aug 19, 2005 Version: 2.9.3.5 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




I'm excited about this program. Currently using trial version.So far I've only used the dvd9>2dvd5s feature, but this program also shrinks, but haven't tried that feature yet. This software is great if you want an easy way to copy some DVDs to archive. Its quick, it's simple, and no doctorate required. You can copy a double layered dvd9 onto 2 dvd5s in about an hour and a half to 2 hours, from beginning to end. It pretty much does everything for you.

If your like me and you just wanna copy some DVds quickly without getting a headache, this is the tool for you....period.


Review by xalky on Apr 24, 2005 Version: 2.83 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I honestly think that DVDFab is the easiest DVD copying software. Might lack some pro features, but perfect for a newbie

Review by deaddybear on Apr 13, 2005 Version: 3.4 OS: Win98 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




It's hard to judge this proggie, because while I was using the trial it repeatedly tried to "phone home" over the Net many times. I hate programs like this, so I uninstalled it before very long. Despite dead simple ease of use, I recommend free tools like DVD Shrink instead.

Review by Zisguy1 on Feb 19, 2005 Version: 2.6 Gold OS: Win2K Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 6/10 Overall: 7/10




Just used it to split one DVD9 into two DVD5. Impressed with its simplicity and usability. Best of all, it doesn't transcode so you can keep what's exactly on the original disc. I have never been a fan of "shrinking". I only wanted to back up bit-by-bit. And it's also speedier than DVDRemake. A very useful tool!

Review by Poplar on Feb 17, 2005 Version: Platinum OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 10/10




Splits or shrinks DVD. Have not used shrink feature. Split works for series or movie disk. If you use wizard it allows you slect a folder or a DVD. Then you have 4 choices some may be grayed if they don't apply to source. If you plan to shrink other tools are better such as dvd shink but to split a disk there is no easier tool. First I thought the second disk had issues with my lite-on LVD 2001 but if you wait it works. With the new version the wait issue was fixed. Does not know how to spilt everthing but most disks work.

Review by mark_r_wood on Jul 2, 2004 Version: 1.98 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 8/10




I'm still surprised, they continue to keep source as DVD only?
Why it is not a DVD folder as well?


Review by koic on Apr 27, 2004 Version: 1.8 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




I have been using this application since the freeware version. The program has been reliable for me on Windows XP home editon. I used to output to a directory and test with PowerDVD first before burning with Nero. But the DVDfab burning engine works and the discs play in all my DVD players. So, I have started using the internal burning engine. I like how you can set the default audio track and default subtitle in DVDfab. I would suggest DVDfab to anyone that wants a reliable and easy to use solution. DVDfab decrypts the disc so no need for DVD decrypter. It can output to a directory or burn the disc. Hight recommended.

Review by rattlebone on Mar 15, 2004 Version: DVDfab v1.70 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




the guy right they dont email you , even when you buy it , I email them four times and nothing . and when was the last time they came out with a new version . the free one work better then the one you pay for.

Review by hotjoe on Jan 22, 2004 Version: 1.02 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 5/10




I initially liked this program as it seemed to do a good job. But once I had questions then ran into a problem, the lack of documentation and no replies to my emails requesting support made me glad I'd decided to give it a thorough trial before paying my $40 for it.

The problem arose when I was copying an episodic disk that contained four episodes. DVDFab put episodes 3 & 4 on disk 1 and episodes 1 & 2 on disk 2. I determined, with the aid of another program, that the actual titles numbered 5,6,7, and 8 were episodes 3,4,1 and 2 respectively so deduced that DVDFab automatically determines burn order by actual title number, not episode number. No problem. I'll just redo the disk and alter the destination on the screen that lets you choose what titles go on what disk... or so I thought. But even though I set it up so that files 7 & 8 (episodes 1 & 2) were on disk 1, etc... when I burned the disks, it ignored the order I'd set and burned them the same way it did the first time.. by following title number order so the first two episodes ended up on disk 2 again.

If I'd received some support I'd have purchased this product. But until they fix this bug and actually support their product, I'll look for and use something else.


Review by TedEBearNC on Jan 16, 2004 Version: 1.02 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




Made a identical copy for backup of a protected dvd which mirrors the original in video and audio quality. Only problem incountered was program does not indicate when coping is complete.

Review by tmikesr on Jan 16, 2004 Version: dvd fab OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 9/10




Ok this is a great little program and free.
It has ripped 20 DVDs so far and the only problem was bad DVD (scratches). The best part of this 10 of them were region 3 and they are free now and play on both my players and all the players that I have test them on at the local Fry's
(Note: DVD+R compatable with 40% of the players and DVD-R is still batting 100%.)
This version will only rip a DVD, so I am using Veritas RecordNow DX to burn the DVD R. Once again for the price this is a rocking program


Review by shinji on Dec 1, 2003 Version: Lite 1.00 Final OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I think it's too much hype about this tool (DVDFab 1.01). Yes it's very easy to use. Yes it's works fast. But one thing strongly dissapoint me and I still thinking DVD X Copy is better. I made 2 disc copy of movie with dvdfab - everything was ok while using dvd on PC. But for surprise my Panasonic RV60 refused to play disc 1 (I was afraid my player will be down - it tried to read dvd very noisy). Second disc was ok (surprise again) and quality was good. Actually I dameged about 4 dvd+r disks while experimenting with this tool. DVD X Copy made copy without any problems and can be played both on pc and player

Regards,
Youtou


Review by Youtou on Nov 28, 2003 Version: DVDFab 1.01 Trial OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 3/10 Value for money: 3/10 Overall: 3/10




I have so far used DVDFab on several disks and they all came out great. I use this when it requires more than 75% compression to get the entire disk on 1 DVD-R or if I want it uncompressed, the menu and extras. I agree with the other reader that it would be great if it can include the menu on the second disk.

Review by ats65 on Oct 25, 2003 Version: 1.00RC2 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




like to see menu and extras on both disks , when you have the second disk in, you cannot go to the menu or extras, dvdxcopy has menu and extras on both disks. but I still like dvdfab over dvdxcopy,and for 39 dollars and the free one, it bets dvdxcopy by a landsilde.and they want 120 dollars and it a piece of shi?

Review by hotjoe on Oct 20, 2003 Version: 1.0 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 8/10




Just tried the new beta and it looks really good. The main functionality that current tools are missing is a sensible way splitting season discs. This tool does it, and does it well. The product is no longer free, but it easily split several season discs for me.

This is a beta and several features are still greyed out, but the main functionallity is there.


Review by msobetzko on Sep 30, 2003 Version: 1.0 beta OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




It still has a few bugs, but If it doesn't run on your system, don't assume its the product..NOT your particular system.
DVD FAB works great on 4 different systems over here.
All Intel Chipsets on MOBOS, however...
This product does what DVD X COPY was supposed to but never delivered until PLATINUM last month....AND FREE!
I backed up quite a few that wouldn't work sensibly to ONE DISC, using my OWN CUSTOM "PUT IN DISC TWO" screen I created ...This program rocks! tho' the ease of putting your own splash sceen is not great..THE STOCK ONES are non-branded (NO DVD X COPY LOGOS HERE!)


Review by dcsos on Sep 26, 2003 Version: only one out OS: Win2K Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Does what it says, a great simple fast tool. It allows you to put menu and extra's on two DVD's without having to go through the IFOedit stuff.

Review by Zsmed on Aug 28, 2003 Version: Version 0.17.1 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




* Version: 0.16.0
* Date : 07.07.2003
******************************************************
*** New
*** Changes
Complete DVD: Changed split function; now still more movies will work.
Complete DVD: Changed split point finder function.
*** Bug fixes
Dutch translation updated.
Complete DVD: Changed some bug in IFO-Files on disc 2


Review by mrbass on Jul 7, 2003 Version: 0.16.0 OS: Win2K Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Here's a DVDFAB hack that'll allow you to process the dvd without having to rip it first. It won't be on the official homepage so don't look for it there.
http://www.mrbass.org/dvdfab
Should finish a guide for dvdfab tonight June 27th.


Review by mrbass on Jun 27, 2003 Version: 0.15.2 OS: Win2K Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10


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