Before I go back to uni I am ripping all my DVD's onto my PC - checking my contents insurance the most they will fork out is £600 for DVD's, I have well over 300 and they refuse to let me insure more than £600 worth.
I am using DVD Shrink to rip them uncompressed onto my HDD and have stripping out all of the menu's, extras, foreign languages etc. However, this results in the files still being over 5gb on average, but only taking a max of 25 minutes to rip with no loss in quality. I simply don't have enough HDD space for all the one's I want to rip and I don't want to fork out now for more HDD when I intend to upgrade my entire system in a few months.
Are there any easy to use programs that will allow me to start converting my movie ISO's into avi's, divX or a suitable equivalent? Something that could do batch processing would be helpful so I can just leave my PC on overnight and let it get on with it. I am not overly fussed as to the file-type. I am more concerned about retaining maximum aduio and visual quality. If I could get each ISO down to around 1gb to 2gb that would be sufficient for me.
I appreciate that it will be substantially slower coverting them than it is to rip them but I can't help feeling that most of that space is wasted, and hopefully with minimul compression it shouldn't take too long for the conversion.
So can anyone recommend any programs out there?
I am using DVD Shrink to rip them uncompressed onto my HDD and have stripping out all of the menu's, extras, foreign languages etc. However, this results in the files still being over 5gb on average, but only taking a max of 25 minutes to rip with no loss in quality. I simply don't have enough HDD space for all the one's I want to rip and I don't want to fork out now for more HDD when I intend to upgrade my entire system in a few months.
Are there any easy to use programs that will allow me to start converting my movie ISO's into avi's, divX or a suitable equivalent? Something that could do batch processing would be helpful so I can just leave my PC on overnight and let it get on with it. I am not overly fussed as to the file-type. I am more concerned about retaining maximum aduio and visual quality. If I could get each ISO down to around 1gb to 2gb that would be sufficient for me.
I appreciate that it will be substantially slower coverting them than it is to rip them but I can't help feeling that most of that space is wasted, and hopefully with minimul compression it shouldn't take too long for the conversion.
So can anyone recommend any programs out there?
