Will using handbreak to rip my DVD's to my Windows Vista damage my DVD's?

[EpicAnwserst]

I want to copy some DVD's I have onto my Windows Vista with a program called "Handbreak" will it damage my DVD's in anyway?
I may get a Windows 7 soon will it damage them If I use handbreak on it to?

 

[KaseyC]

1) Never heard of Handbreak. There is handbrake though.

2) Handbrake does NOT damage DVDs. In fact, nothing short of bad drive and bad scratches will damage a DVD.

 

[violindoug]

Handbreak reads the data and transcodes it so it's like asking "Will playing a DVD in a DVD/BluRay player damage my DVDs?

 

[snowwillow20]

I like this free converter http://www.squared5.com better than this free converter. http://www.handbrake.fr/

No they won't hurt the DVD. Once something is burned to a DVD there is really no way to get physically take the files off, what you are doing is converting a copy of the files, the original is still there. This is not the case with rewritable dvd's.

 

[Tigger]

If it's used to rip DVD's No