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- Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -5/+28That program has a disgusting interface...
- rolypolyman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Star Wars and LOTR fans should rip their movies down to animated GIF for maximum portability and because they know all the words anyway.
- jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8900GB?
That must be a *****' green ray disc or some ***** ;) - Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I use AutoGK, seems to work just fine, as you just let it do all the 'manual labor' stuff. I tried DVDx, and it seemed to work a fraction of the time.
- reefsurfer226, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9link fix: http://handbrake.m0k.org/
- Maverick83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6DVDecrypter + autoGK = win.
- Kypt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Or if you use a Mac you can just use Handbrake (http://handbrake.m0k.org/) and be done w/ it :D
- Namco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I can't believe he caught DCMA, but not teh or brakes.
- master_of_fm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7yeah its ugly but but it is skinnable, I have been using this program for the better part of 5 years and have found it quite handy. another good tool to use along with it is virtualdub which is free
- Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Interface is somewhat important. On the one hand, it doesn't need to be shiny, but on the other, the interface for such a simple program should be simple. The DVD ripping software I have seen all have horrible interfaces. They cram everything onto one screen, and show options that you really don't need to tweak that often. What DVD ripping software needs to look like is this: When you open it, a screen comes up allowing you to select the drive you want to rip from, where you want the ripped file, and a big RIP button. A smaller "options" should also be there. Inside options, it should allow you to select the format to encode to, the bitrate, resolution, and audio quality. That is IT!!!!!! An advance tab should contain everything else. People don't want to have to select all sorts of wierds tweaks, it just confuses them.
- striker87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is overly difficult. Just use DVD Decrypter and encode into Xvid with AutoGK. Much easier and much more reliable.
- agentf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5wow
quoth the article...
"While DVDs are high quality and you can rip them to your computer, they do have drawbacks, such as large file sizes (900 Gigabytes per movie) and obscure file-naming."
900 Gigabytes... And digg users are retards eh? - celticeric, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Is this the app?
http://www.fairusewizard.com/
Haven't tried it yet, but it looks very promising. - maggoty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Gordian Knot is the man for me... easy peasy and always a high quality rip. Not that hard really. Reading the guides on doom9.org helped me out. I knew nothing before hand and I got thru it easily. I recommend people check it out.
- 8-bit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is the worst way to convert DVD to divX or Xvid. Save yourself a big pain in the ass and use AutoGK.
- Ahnteis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Has auto gordian knot gone out of favor then? I haven't kept up on the auto-converter "scene".
- Cronus6, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14Who cares what the interface looks like? It's free and it works. Function over form anyday.
- kabewm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5DVDx is both defunct and always gets the aspect ratio wrong. It'd be best to use something like FairUse LE (restircted to 700mb, FairUse will create any level of compression), which is three (very self explanatory) clicks and walk away.
- xiongchiamiov, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@alej
Well, that's why I'm getting a Creative Zen Vision:M, isn't it? - technstuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Get a Philips DVP642 DVD player for $50, and you don't even have to encode the files. It'll read DivX, avi, mpg, etc. Just burn the files to a data DVD, pop it in, and the files show up in a menu. Click and play, no formatting necessary.
- Namco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The only group worse than the spelling police are the interface nazis.
That said... yeah it is kinda hard to look at :P - sigmaman2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Lots of other programs, tips, info, etc. at http://www.videohelp.com
If you want to convert any video format into any other video format, they have an article showing you how to do it, as well as a tool to do it with. - 511pf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Try Fair Use Wizard. Nice interface and easy to use DVD ripper and encoder.
- Darq1, on 11/07/2007, -0/+3Thanks. I knew something was wrong when I read that DVDs were "900GB" lol
- xmod2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This was in the "How-to-of the day" module on my personal Google page and now it's in the Digg module right next to it. *thumbs up*
- fani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use the following for DVD -> small avi ( divx or xvid format ) and love it -
1. Handbrake on Mac
2. Divx Converter on Windows ( not so good )
3. RiverPast video cleaner ( on Windows, good )
4. PSPVideo9 ( for PSP ) - ldhertert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this is probably not the best solution, but I use an old version of nero vision. tried installing the newest version and it didn't give me a dvd option...but Vision that comes with the Nero 6 bundle lets you add multiple video files and create a menu.
- INHUMANITY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2FYI: PocketDivXEncoder will rip the DVD AND shrink the file size down all while maintaining great quality. I just pop in a DVD, select the main VOB file, preview it to make sure I got the right one, and click on encode. Most of the movies I've ripped average anywhere from 250MB to 350MB.
They look great on my PPC-6600's 3.5" LCD! - Kypt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2well I would've thought it would only link whats inside of parenthesis and not the close parenthesis with it :(
- master_of_fm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4i noticed people posting links for different tools, check out http://www.videohlep.com (used to be vcdhelp.com) they have links for tools plus walkthroughs for converting almost any format to a different one
- INHUMANITY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you want to rip your stuff and make it ready for your PocketPC device then skip all the apps listed above. Just download PocketDivxEncoder (free) and give it shot. It'll do multiple vids at once too!
http://download.ppccool.com/PocketDivXEncoder_0.3.60.exe (6.7MB) - hobbsy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"While DVDs are high quality and you can rip them to your computer, they do have drawbacks, such as large file sizes (900 Gigabytes per movie) and obscure file-naming."
900 Gigabytes per movie? huh? - mrWoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's a wiki. It's been trashed. For the originals, see here: http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Rip-DVDs-to-Small-AVI-or-MPG-Formatted-Files&oldid=135669
- Orangutan, on 11/07/2007, -1/+3this download is more than slightly slow...
- diggnate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2does anyone know how to take an avi file (divx) and put it on a DVD? I download tv shows off the net and would like to be able to burn them on DVD so I can watch them on my TV.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This tutorial was up for a while, just because it shows up first on your Google personal homepage in the How To of the Day it gets digged to the first page?
- geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Or it could be WiteRay®. Contains every color of the spectrum, baby!
- agentf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hobbsy You beat me to it!!
HOBBSY!!! *shakes fist* - tavisjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21) Someone must be using Google's fancy start page... This was today's WiKi How To!
2) That has to be OLD instruction, The DiVx version is 2.x Arn't they up to 6.x now?
3) This will NOT work on any encrypted DVD's... For that you need the DVD decrypter tool that DVD John made... That is not online anymore... (Well almost) - stevetures, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2and I love DVDDecrypter a lot... but once in a while, these days after its dev. stopped, you find discs that it can't decode. So sad.
Steve - stevetures, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think that AutoGK is the most user-friend software with the highest quality. Its ability to deinterlace properly definetly ranks it high.
I think:
1. DVDFab Decrypter. http://www.dvdidle.com/free.htm
2. AutoGK. http://www.autogk.me.uk/index.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=1
Then you won't even need to find a good xvid binary. It's bundled in autogk. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Are you on drugs? I don't understand what you're trying to say.
- lvraab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2IIRC, it's "DVD Jon"...
- jgreene777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2really. any time i have tried to find a way to get my DVDs in a format I want, the instructions are too cryptic and the software too jank for it to be "easy". n00bs are n00bs and there will always be n00 n00bs for you to ask questions like this. ripping dvds is a new deal for lots of folks and i think the more times we bring this subject up, the more likely the "industry" is to listen to what we want. if they ever FINALLY get the point, they will make ripping movies easier and more transparent technically and legally.
- gene, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah that's ripping, not encoding. >_>
- jgreene777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Super is SUPER!
http://www.erightsoft.com/Superdt.html
It converts just about anything.. so turn those MPG into M4P - InternetUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's an app called "DivXtoDVD" it works really well and is very simple. Use nero to burn the DVD when it's finished.
- jgreene777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it's only copy-protected when a DRM is embedded in the file... someone was complaining about the formats the iPod could read... or something... and you can convert just about anything to an M4P for the iPod to play.
- zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm all for the freeware but use slysoft.com
The price is right and it just works.
If you need to do more to the files after your rip with these programs.
Then ya go ahead and post process the files with any of the freeware stuff.
Me I just need to back up a dvd movie from time to time and I dont have the time to play around with it. - DublinBen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1why would anyone ever want to create a copy protected m4p file?
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