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Posted by Bill's News on 02/13/07 22:19
"Laphan" <info@PleaseDontSpam.com> wrote in message
news:12t4b01nmbt1cc4@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi All
>
> I've searched and searched and I can't find a decent DVD to
> AVI / WMV ripper
> anywhere, especially a freeware one!
>
> I've gone and got us a camcorder that records to DVD-R /
> DVD-RW and hasn't
> got any cable outputs on it. Its a Canon DC100 and Canon have
> told me that
> I need ripping software to get the data off so that I can mess
> around with
> it in say MovieMaker and ultimately get it back on DVD.
>
> I really like the simplicity of No1 DVD Ripper, ie select DVD,
> select format
> (AVI, WMV, etc) and rip, but on my P4 3Ghz, 512MB, 250GB WinXP
> Pro SP2 PC it
> took over 5 hours to rip a 1 hour 4 min DVD (home made one so
> no protection)
> to AVI and the file size was 2.5GB !
>
> Tried WMV and although the file size went down to 500MB it
> still took 4
> hours!
>
> Canon said DVD ripping would be as fast as downloading from
> tape to PC via
> firewire, but this surely isn't right.
>
> Does anybody know how to get realistic file sizes and rip
> times with this
> software or one as simple?
>
> My friend downloaded a 45 min episode of Prison Break as an
> AVI file and the
> file size is only 340MB and the quality is great. How can
> this be so?
>
> Is AVI better than WMV?
>
> I tried the AVI xVid method, but Windows Media Player on
> machines that
> didn't have this codec couldn't play it!
>
> All I want is a very good video/audio quality file with a
> manageable file
> size like the Prison Break file - am I asking too much?
>
> Thanks for listening to my rant. Any help would be very much
> appreciated.
>
>
>
I've never tried NO1 Ripper. You will speed things up by:
a - Ripping the DVD in it's existing format to HDD other than C:
(this can be done by drag & drop from your DVDs). This will
take merely a few minutes.
b - Convert to AVI or WMV from the HDD holding the DVD copy to
another non-C: HDD drive.
Even without multiple hard drives, the processes will be speeded
somewhat by copying to HDD first.
Is there some reason you need to change the format from what is
stored on your DVDs to AVI (whatever encoder you may be using)
or WMV? There are editors which work with MPEG2 (VOB) files and
which preserve the encoding. Their results are then easily
authored and rewritten to DVD. These sorts of processes are
quite quick compared with altering the encoding.
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