Probably, one day you may want to save a DVD movie to the hard disk. This task may appear to be not easy as the DVD might be protected from copying by the Content Scrambling System (CSS) or Region protection. Boilsoft DVD Ripper – simple and easy-to-use DVD ripper – resolves the problem.

The program interface is traditional for this type of programs. It is simple, intuitive without excessive features. The only window provides everything necessary for ripping: a pane to list DVD files, a settings panel, a simple playback and a row of big attractive buttons: 'Open', 'Rip', 'Options', etc.

However, the interface has some inconveniences. For example, the pane with the list of DVD files is small in size, and if a DVD contains many tracks (mostly advertising!), to view them users have to scroll once and once again. To make the situation even worse, while opening DVD disk, Boilsoft DVD Ripper checks some of tracks, and the checking principle is incomprehensible.

Though, to work with the program is very easy. We press the 'Open' button, choose a DVD, check necessary tracks and launch ripping pressing the 'Rip' button.

That is it.

The program options allow users to choose an output directory and change setting for every output format: define the quality of audio and video.

However, Boilsoft DVD Ripper does not save any of the above mentioned settings (even the output directory) and this adds to inconvenience.

A kind of a surprise was that at the start of the ripping process, the program does not offer a traditional checkbox 'Shut down computer when finished'. While the status of the progress bar at the ripping complition was embarrassing.

To be precise, such «incompleteness» appears only time by time. But what does it testify to? Is it a drawback of an unregistered version an unfixed bug of the program?

Moreover, the ripping process itself is not always successful. For example, for one of my disks, the program failed to rip the tracks with minimal Audio Sample rate settings.

The embedded playback sturs up a great discontent. Beside the fact that it works slowly and so does not cope with the task of previewing, its performance is not stable. The process of previewing may lead to the program crash.

Any attempts to move a playback's slider result in the picture freeze.

A convenient option, from my point of view, is the possibillity to split chapters of a track into smaller files. The option provides quite a wide range of opportunities. Boilsoft DVD Ripper allows to join some files and so to get a file of a desired length.

It is just excellent that Boilsoft DVD Ripper saves tracks with subtitles rendering subtitles into the output video file.

A restriction put on the trial version of the program is that Boilsoft DVD Ripper processes only 5 first minutes of a track. At every launch of the program, by the way, it keeps reminding us about this.

In general, Boilsoft DVD Ripper is not a bad program, it accomplishes its main task – copying DVD to the hard disk. But, to my thinking, it might be more user-friendly, and it obviously needs some testing and fixing. The program price ($34.95) is quite common for the type of programs and does not make the software an attractive market offer.

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