A Home Theater PC (HTPC) or Media Center appliance has been, for a long time, divorced from desktop PC and standalone Home Theatre project. And because the value of using a computer instead of stand alone DVD player, which drives more usage of the PC as a home media device, HTPC gradually gains edge over DVD player. For example, the desire for progressive scanning DVD players (480p instead of 480i) with better video fidelity led some consumers to consider their computers instead of very expensive DVD players.

Apart from robust computing power, HTPC is usually preloaded with around 500GB to 1TB hard drive - quite spacious warehouse to save at least 400+ DVD movies. And this how to Rip DVD to HTPC tutorial will lead you a shortcut.

To rip DVD movie onto HTPC, below benefits will be endowed with:

1. Load and unload DVDs consume a lot of time (even for modern DVD drivers that claims 8x reading speed).

2. DVD is vulnerable, fragile and easy to get scratched.

3. If you do not organize your DVDs in a shapely way, then you have great chance of taking a dozen minutes to find the movie you desire.

How to rip DVD collection to HTPC?

To rip DVD library onto HTPC hard drive, you should be aware of output image and sound quality. For majority of users, they would cancel the ripping process if they know they are pushed to sacrifice 480i image or 5.1-channel surrounding sound. A good suggestion is: go find a decent DVD backup program!

BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate is your best choice by all means. It is preloaded with Copy DVD to Single MPEG2 file option (MPEG2 has best compatibility on all HTPC operating system, all Microsoft Windows based HTPC can playback MPEG2 video natively). More ideally, every single piece of DVD can be cloned into a perfect 1:1 copy with exactly the same high quality video and surrounding audio as the original one. There will be no quality loss at all! Download now

Step 1: After loading your source DVD, you can click DVD Title Backup option, and choose Copy DVD to Single MPEG2 File.

Step 2: Check your Source DVD and Target File output folder. (Usually the output is in 3GB)

Step 3: Run BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate to get your MPEG2 video.