DVD to AVi ripper

[brightside]

Hi, I could do with some help as I want to convert film DVD's to a format to put on a portable storage device, Avi/mpeg4 etc.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to get a ripper? to be able to acheive this and which format will not use to much hard drive space.
Many thanks.
Iain

[sadako]

What OS?

[brightside]

Not sure, its an Epson P2000 photo 40gb storage viewer which you can also store movies etc on,does this help, it say's you can put most formats on the viewer. Windows XP on my computer.
Many thanks

Edited by brightside on Wednesday 4th April 22:29

[jimothy]

Handbrake. Dogs danglies of ripper.

[jagdpanther]

Ive always used DVD Decrypter for ripping and Auto Gaurdian Knot for encoding

Serving my needs for well over 4 years

[brightside]

Many thanks for the posting but some of this is meaningless to me, imagine a thicko who just wants to copy a DVD to a format and copy it onto a hard drive/viewer... what is the easiest / best way.
Again many thanks in advance.
Iain

[jagdpanther]

brightside said:

Many thanks for the posting but some of this is meaningless to me, imagine a thicko who just wants to copy a DVD to a format and copy it onto a hard drive/viewer... what is the easiest / best way.
Again many thanks in advance.
Iain

Im the not the sharpest peanut in the turd at the best of times, but with the ones I have suggested its simpley a case of put DVD in drive, DVD Decrypter opens up, select to decrypt and it stores files on the Hard Drive. When thats done, open AutoGK and select to encode the files you've decrypted, chose the file size that you want the final AVi to be, then click the go button

Or failing that: Nick the films from Bittorrent

[brightside]

Seem's like good advice, do you have any links.
Cheers

[SpencerO]

Any of the AoA stuff - not free, but cheap and good.

[jagdpanther]

www.afterdawn.com

[brightside]

Many thanks.