Redbox Rip and Return!

NOTE:  I am not promoting or condoning piracy in this blog post.  For private use only according to federal copyright laws!

Here's a tip: text DEALS to 727272 to get an occasional promo code from Redbox!

In fact, I just got one this morning, like this:


So I stopped a Redbox on my lunch break and rented Son Of God but unfortunately I don't always have time to watch a movie before having to return it the next day (or else start paying $1.27/day).

Fortunately, I know how to use VLC Media Player to rip a DVD movie onto my computer to watch any time after returning the disk. =D

If you don't have VLC Media Player installed on your computer, you can download it for free at www.videolan.org.

Put the DVD into your CDROM drive and fire up VLC Media Player to get started.  If you get a Windows Autoplay window that appears, just close it.

Once VLC Media Player launches, click the Media menu at the top-left and choose Open Disk...





On the Open Media window, put a check in the box next to No Disk Menus to avoid having them appear in your final video file.






At the bottom of the window, click the small down-arrow next to the Play button and choose Stream instead.





On the Stream Output window, click Next and then on the next window, click Add to add a new file destination.  Name the file and then click the Browse button to choose a location on your computer to save the video file to.  Click the Next button.

On the next window where it shows the Transcoding Options click Next to accept the defaults.

On the next window click the Stream button to begin streaming the video from the DVD to your file you specified.

That's it!!!  Wait a few minutes and you should see the progress bar moving as if the movie is playing. Depending on how fast your computer is, it may actually encode the DVD to your file faster than normal play time.  Mine encodes slightly faster than real-time play speed so a two hour movie might finish encoding in, say, an hour and a half.

Conclusion

I've done this several times since I seem to get lots of promo codes via text from Redbox and while I haven't run into a movie I couldn't rip to a video file, I can't really say that this will work for ALL movies.

Enjoy

                                                                                  

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