If you can bear with me for a moment, evaluating & talking about the Leawo DVD Ripper is more complicated than usual, because the software itself is more complicated than usual. I'd like to start by very briefly defining the ground rules so-to-speak...
A DVD Ripper is a video converter that A) can understand the layout of a video DVD, & B) can work with the disc's DRM to determine what portion of the audio & video on the disc make up the title you want to convert into some other format [i.e. transcode]. There are potential legal issues regarding the DRM part -- unless you license the tech, which they won't sell you, understanding the DRM to work with it means reverse engineering that DRM, which may not be legal. That means that you'll rarely [if ever] find this sort of software provided by a company in the US or EU. So while you may like or dislike the GUI design trends in Chinese software, with rippers & copiers that's pretty much irrelevant, simply because that's pretty much all you're going to get.
With today's GOTD Leawo has progressed beyond the average GUI you're used to seeing with Chinese video converters, bundling several apps together in a technically more complicated, re-sizable window. This is more advantageous if you license & use all of those apps, but beyond that it also lets them concentrate on one app rather than splitting attention across a more fragmented product lineup. Some people will love it, some will hate it, & time will tell if it results in a better product from the user point of view. This more unified interface also carries a price -- Leawo has perhaps also increased their own DRM, while the software uses more files [so it has a larger footprint on your hard drive], as all the features are installed, whether you use them or not.
I can't say how well Leawo's DVD Ripper will do in the DRM department -- you'll have to see how it does on the discs you buy. There's no reason to believe that it'll be miraculously faster on your system than anything else -- some people *might* benefit from the very few apps that include Intel's Quick Sync, but otherwise there's nothing new AFAIK that's happened with ffmpeg to make it suddenly light years faster. Leawo's DVD Ripper does include a lot of Real support, so if that's what you use for your output format, it should do better than most. Otherwise it boils down to that more unified GUI, & how much you like it, or don't.
I don't think the setup routine or process is bad for most people, though if you tend to be finicky about that sort of thing [like I am] you'll hate it. It installs an older copy of the C/C++ runtime files from Microsoft that need updating as soon as the install's done. It also leave the temporary files from that C/C++ install in the root folder, C:\ . It adds the thdudf.sys driver, intended to support Blu-Ray drives, even when unnecessary. The Leawo DVD Ripper adds a service that runs with Windows [as their own copy protection?]. It gives the user a chance to install the K-Lite codec pack -- that's not a negative BTW unless you don't research beforehand so that you can make an informed decision.
Installation adds the program's folder, an Appkeys folder to Common Files, a Leawo folder to My Documents, Leawo & tiger-k folders to C:\Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Roaming\ , a Leawo folder to ProgramData, & might add a Leawo folder to ProgramData\ Application Data. Monitored in the XP Mode VM it added more registry entries than I'd like, mostly because of the C/C++ installs -- in win7 64 it added far too many [I *think* temporary] registry entries to go through... 350k +.
After all of that Leawo's DVD Ripper does work. It does not work as nicely as DVDFab 8 -- DVDFab 9 does better too but that's balanced by having a new GUI that many find terrible. What's better about DVDFab? It'll tell you what the main title or movie is, let you select that title, & basically go for it. Leawo's DVD Ripper, & Giovanni's suggested Wonderfox alternative, show you every title -- it's up to you to figure out which one(s) you want. I don't think that everyone can, at least without doing a bit of research &/or learning first.
