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Kati Compton
03-26-2004, 04:19 PM
I have a number of DVDs (purchased by me) that I'd like to rip to video files to view on my laptop. I find the screen of a PPC to be to small for viewing video, and I generally have my laptop with me anyway when I'd want to watch video.

What programs do you suggest for creating the video file?
Jason Dunn
03-26-2004, 04:38 PM
Psst....I've heard of this site, Digital Media Thoughts (http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com), where people love answering questions like this. :wink:
Kati Compton
03-26-2004, 04:43 PM
Right. I keep thinking of it as a site for people creating their OWN video/audio/images.
Dave Potter
03-26-2004, 04:58 PM
If this question is answered at Digital Media Thoughts - could someone post a link?? I'd be interested in hearing peoples thoughts on this as well.

Thanks!
Jason Dunn
03-26-2004, 05:22 PM
Right. I keep thinking of it as a site for people creating their OWN video/audio/images.

Oh no, not at all, DVD ripping is a popular topic over there, and it's not people ripping their own DVDs. ;-)
Jason Dunn
03-26-2004, 05:25 PM
If this question is answered at Digital Media Thoughts - could someone post a link?? I'd be interested in hearing peoples thoughts on this as well. Thanks!

http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/index.php?topic_id=4933
http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/index.php?topic_id=4808
http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html

What you'd probably want to do is rip the DVD to a single AVI file, then use the Windows Media Encoder 9 (free) or pay for a DivX encoder to create a compressed version of the DVD for your laptop.

We don't have a tutorial on how to do this on DMT yet, but I'd encourage you to start a discussion on it and see what the community thinks about the best way to do this. :-)
Dave Potter
03-26-2004, 06:12 PM
Cool - Thanks!

I quickly looked over these links - but didn't see any reference to a DVD ripper which can rip a DVD to a single AVI file. Any recommendations?
Falstaff
03-26-2004, 11:43 PM
Try SmartRipper. To make high quality rips, I use SmartRipper to rip the DVD, then DVDx 2.2 to convert it to XVid, then I make final editting and compression with VirtualDub. Sorry I don't have links for the software, try divx-digest.com, might be there.
iPAQFanatic
03-29-2004, 04:15 PM
I like the information DVDRHelp.com (http://www.dvdrhelp.com/), they have many many guides and many many software tools.
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Kati Compton
03-29-2004, 06:39 PM
BTW - I found a good comparison of video codecs by following a number of links...

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-203-1.htm