Converting DVD ISO to AVI, DivX or Equivalent

Ricki

Ricki

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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?
 
There are possibly new programs now, but when I did this sort of thing I used DVD Squeeze. It used Smart Ripper to take the .VOB files tot he hard drive, then FlaskMPEG to convert them to .avi. Just make sure you have any codecs you need such as divx and Lame MP3
 
jbloggs said:
AutoGK
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Where'd you find that then eh? :p

Use DVD Decrypter, if you haven't already, then AutoGK to convert the DVDs into avi. You can reduce the quality of the video a bit to try and reduce the file size.

If you use DVD Decrypter, stick it in IFO mode. Much easier to rip the DVD that way. Search IFO on the forums for some bledd. knowledge about why its good.
 
I like to use the AnyDVD / CloneDVD 2 combo myself. The newer CloneDVD Mobile will convert DVDs to MP4/DivX/WMV/3GPP.
 
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