Posted by Laphan on 02/13/07 21:21

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.

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