Rip your DVD collection to NAS For Free with Freemake and Alternatives

Date June 29, 2016 Author Catherine Category DVD Tips, NAS

Wouldn’t it be great if you could have all your DVD movies and TV box sets to NAS you can watch all of your DVD movies on your TV via a media streamer such as a WD TV Live Hub? Ripping DVDs to NAS is a great way to clear some space in your living room by sticking the bulky cases in a box in the attic – and it won’t cost you a penny.

It makes a lot of other sense to rip the contents of your DVDs onto a NAS. For example, your kids can stream DVD movie in their bedroom with WD TV even though there is no DVD Player in their room. Thankfully, there’s plenty of free software available to do just that, and as long as you stick to ripping discs that you legally purchased, you’re not doing anything wrong. Ok, now let’s start to copy to DVD to NAS with some DVD ripping tools.

Table of Content

Part 1: Ripping DVD to NAS with FreeMake

Part 2: Rip DVD to NAS with Pavtube ByteCopy

Part 3: Copy DVD to NAS with Pavtube DVDAid

Part 4: Comparison of FreeMake, ByteCopy and DVDAid

Part 5: Top NAS Server 2016 Recommended

Part 6: Other DVD to NAS ripping tools

Part 1: Ripping DVD to NAS with FreeMake

Step 1. Go to www.freemake.com and download the Free Video Converter, which includes everything you need to rip the vast majority of DVDs. Then launch FreeMake.
Insert your disc, click the +DVD button and navigate to your DVD drive in Computer. Then click OK.

Step 2. The software will read the disc and give you a list of titles. These will include the movie itself and any included extras, so pay close attention to the lengths of each title to work out which one is the film – it will usually be first in the list.

Step 3. The next screen gives more information on each title. If you couldn’t decide which one was the movie, use the resolution, bitrate and audio details to make an informed guess. Click the audio details to choose the audio feed you want to rip.

Step 4. At the bottom is a scrollable row of output formats. For playback on a console or mobile device, click your manufacturer and choose your device; for PC playback we’d choose MP4 for maximum compatibility.

Step 5. Before you encode the file, use the dropdown lists to pick the quality you’d like. The software can upconvert to 1080p or 720p, stick with the standard DVD quality, or even shrink the file for mobile viewing. You can also rename the output file here. It’s best keep the original resolution and frame rate, which is likely to be 720×576 and 25fps. Upconverting to a higher resolution won’t add any detail.

Step 6. Once you’ve confirmed your choices, make yourself a cup of tea as you’ll have a bit of a wait while the software takes care of the encoding process. This can take anywhere from a few minutes to well over an hour depending on the power of your PC. When it’s done, click Show in Folder to access your new rip.

Part 2：Rip DVD to NAS with Pavtube ByteCopy

 As far as I know, Pavtube ByteCopy is a top-selling Blu-ray/DVD Ripper in the market which has the following features:

*Break down the encryption in BD&DVD discs, including AACS, BD+, Disney encryption,  region codes, Sony encryption, etc.
*Rip Blu-ray/DVD to ASUSTOR AS1004T NAS, Synology NAS, QNAP NAS and other NAS
*Convert Blu-ray/DVD to H.265, M3U8, MP4, MKV, AVI, FLV, MOV, etc with original video quality. 
*Copy the entire Blu-ray/DVD disc to NAS in original file structure with all subtitle tracks and audio streams preserved.
*Backup Blu-ray/DVD to iPhone, iPad, Microsoft Pro, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, etc optimized format to NAS.
*Allows users to shrink Blu-ray/DVD movies size to store more movies to the NAS
*Compatible with Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP, etc
*Has the equivalent Mac version which supports OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, etc

Free download and install:
 

Step 1: Import Blu-ray/DVD movies

Run the app and insert Blu-ray/DVD to drive. Click “File” to load the Blu-ray/DVD movies to the program.

Tips:

1.You can add more than one Blu-ray/DVD movies at a time for it has batch conversion function.

2. You can choose desired subtitle and audio track and forced subtitle below the chapter list.

Step 2: Backup and convert Blu-ray/DVD

Here, you have four choices:

Option A – Full Disc Copy Blu-ray/DVD to NAS

You can keep all the information in Blu-ray/DVD movies, including main title, advertisement, chapter markers, review and the whole audio/subtitle streams.

Click  on the top of the menu.

Option B – Directly Copy Blu -ray/DVD to NAS

Just the main title of the original Blu-ray/DVD disc will be preserved in this way. It will save many space of your NAS. 

Navigate to “Format” > “Copy” > “Directly Copy” 

Option C – Convert Blu-ray/DVD to MP4/MKV/MOV to NAS

Transforming Blu-ray/DVD to MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, etc popular format gives you wide playback on different devices via NAS. 

Click “Format”, you can choose the desired format in “Common Video” or “HD Video” profiles. On the other hand, you can choose the optimized preset for mainstreaming multimedia players, like PS3, PS4, Microsoft Surface Pro.

Option D – Rip Blu-ray/DVD to lossless MKV

In this way, you can extract lossless MKV format from Blu-ray/DVD discs with multiple subtitle/audio tracks and chapter markers preserved. 

Click the format bar to follow “Multi-track Video” and “Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV (*.mkv)”.

Step 3: Rip DVD/Blu-ray to NAS

If you chose the latter three ways, click big red “Convert” on the UI to begin Blu-ray/DVD ripping process. Locate the generated video in output folder.

Part 3: Copy DVD to NAS with Pavtube DVDAid

Most of you are likely familiar with the excellent Handbrake for ripping standard Def DVDs, but it still cannot yet protected DVD discs. The way it can with regular DVDs, so you’ll need to add an intermediate step. Pavtube DVDAid is the bee’s knees, which can help you fast rip DVD discs to a format playble by NAS while keeping the original quality.

With it, ripping DVD for Synology NAS is simple as ABC. After downloding, follow the wizard to install and run the program. The mac version is DVDAid for Mac. Then follow the steps below to convert DVD to Synology NAS comaptible formats in a few clicks! 

Step 1: Insert your DVD disc into DVD ROM, Launch the program and click the “Disc” button to import the DVD movies. DVD folder and ISO/IFO files are also supported. You can select subtitles as you want.

Step 2: Click Format and choose MP4 video from Common Video, which can be recognized by Synology NAS well. MKV is also a good choice; as a container format it takes whatever you give it. And then click the Browse button to specify an output folder to save the converted files.

Tip: With the right settings you can retain the quality of the original DVD while also saving space. This is particularly helpful when streaming over your network, depending on your network quality. Simply click Settings bar and you can tweak the settings to your satisfaction and even save it as preset.

Step 3: Finally, hit the “Convert” button at the bottom of the main interface to start the conversion. It will automatically convert DVD to Synology NAS compatible video files.

Part 4: Comparison of FreeMake, ByteCopy and DVDAid

Don’t know which DVD Ripper to choose? Here is a chart to list the functions of the popular FreeMake, ByteCopy and DVDAid.

Part 5: Top NAS Server 2016 Recommended

There are too much NAS Server in the market. You may don’t know which one is suitable for you. We made a simple research for popular NAS server and listed some most popular NAS here.

#1: Synology DiskStation DS1513+

The Synology DiskStation DS1513+ is easily one of the best multiple-bay NAS servers to date, performing superbly both as an advanced storage server and as the central host for a long list of home entertainment and business uses.

#2: Synology DiskStation DS412+

Synology DiskStation DS412+ makes an excellent NAS server for advanced home and small-office networks.

#3: WD My Cloud EX4

It’s not the fastest NAS, nor does it include many advanced features, but the WD My Cloud EX4 still combines great ease of use into an affordable personal cloud system that’s excellent for a connected home.

#4: WD My Cloud EX2

With its friendly pricing, fast performance, and handy personal cloud features, the WD My Cloud EX2 is an ideal network storage device for a small connected home.

#5: Synology DiskStation DS214se

The budget-minded Synology Disk Station DS214se is an excellent choice for home with casual backup, media-streaming, and data-sharing needs.

Other better network attached storage have Netgear ReadyNAS 202, QNAP TS-251, Western Digital My Cloud DL4100 (24TB), Western Digital My Cloud Mirror, Asustor AS-602T, Buffalo TeraStation 5200DN (2TB), QNAP TVS-463, Synology DiskStation DS1515+, Western Digital My Cloud Mirror Gen 2 (4TB), etc.

Part 6: Other DVD to NAS ripping tools