WonderFox DVD Ripper Pro is a Windows program for turning DVD movies into video or audio files and keeping complete DVD backups on a hard drive. It can work from a disc in an optical drive, an ISO image or a DVD folder. Its output choices cover both preserving the disc’s contents and converting selected movies or episodes for playback on other devices.
Pro is paid software with a trial that processes up to 15 minutes of each DVD. The separate Free DVD Ripper Speedy edition exports MPG files; Pro adds other formats, device profiles and complete ISO or folder copies. Both work with video DVDs; data DVDs and Blu-ray discs are outside this program’s input support.
ISO and DVD folder copies
The 1:1 Quick Copy choices save a DVD as an ISO image or DVD folder. These retain its menus, titles, audio tracks and subtitle tracks together.
WonderFox DVD Ripper Pro also reads existing copies. For folder input, the DVD structure must contain its IFO, BUP and VOB files intact. This lets a stored DVD serve as the source for another conversion without loading the physical disc again.
WonderFox DVD Ripper Pro output formats
For individual video files, the output panel offers formats including MP4, MKV, MOV and AVI. Device profiles cover phones, tablets, televisions and game consoles, while media-server profiles include Plex, Emby and Jellyfin. Selecting a profile supplies settings for the chosen playback destination.
Smart Fit supplies preset parameters, with manual controls for the encoder, resolution, frame rate and video bitrate. The encoder determines the compression format, while bitrate changes how much video data the file uses. Saving a personalized configuration puts it in the Custom tab for reuse on other DVD titles. Intel QSV and NVIDIA NVENC acceleration are available for supported encoding tasks, including H.264, H.265 and AV1 output.
Audio output is a separate choice in the same conversion panel. Selecting MP3, FLAC or WAV produces an audio file from the DVD soundtrack, allowing concert or spoken material to be saved without the video picture.
Choosing titles and reading protected discs
A loaded DVD appears as a list of titles. WonderFox DVD Ripper Pro identifies and selects the main movie or episodes automatically, including on discs containing misleading titles used by copy protection. Title checkboxes let you change that selection, so bonus material can be included or individual episodes retained separately.
The preview player helps identify the selected content before conversion. Its timeline and title navigation let you inspect a title beyond the thumbnail, which may happen to show a black frame. Decryption handles protections such as CSS and region coding, and Enhanced Decryption provides an additional reading mode for discs that resist the normal scan.
Language tracks
Audio and subtitle controls apply to the selected DVD titles. MKV, MP4 and MOV output can retain multiple audio tracks, keeping different soundtracks in the resulting file instead of choosing only one language.
Subtitle handling depends on the output and subtitle type. For image-based DVD subtitles, MKV can retain switchable subtitle tracks. Hard subtitles become part of the video picture and can be used with other video formats, but they cannot subsequently be turned off. A forced subtitle track can be selected when the disc supplies one, preserving captions for the portions that need them.
External ASS and SRT files can also supply subtitles. WonderFox DVD Ripper Pro accepts multiple external subtitle files when exporting MKV, MP4 or MOV, making subtitle selection independent of the tracks originally included on the DVD.
Picture edits
The editor can trim a title to a shorter segment, crop its frame, rotate or flip the picture, and apply effects before conversion. These controls operate on the selected DVD video, so keeping one passage from a movie does not require exporting the entire title first. The same editor can capture screenshots from the footage.
Deinterlacing is available in the output settings for DVD footage that shows horizontal interlacing lines.
