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From: Thip on 4 Dec 2009 16:06
I know NOTHING about Vista. I'm trying to help a friend who's 1500 miles
away who knows almost nothing about computers. Here's what we want to do:

His son is in Afghanistan. He wants to rip hunting movies from DVD's to a
smaller format, such as .avi, load a bunch of those .avi's on a thumb drive,
and mail it to his son.

So far, I've had him download DVDFab (free version) and we've successfully
ripped one movie. From there, we tried to run it through Any Video
Converter, and this is where we're stuck. AVC keeps telling him there is no
audio (?) and stops cold.

Does anyone have any suggestions, or possibly a simpler solution? I'm
really flying blind here and we're both getting frustrated.

From: alvey on 4 Dec 2009 17:45
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:06:12 -0500, Thip wrote:

> I know NOTHING about Vista. I'm trying to help a friend who's 1500 miles
> away who knows almost nothing about computers. Here's what we want to do:
>
> His son is in Afghanistan. He wants to rip hunting movies from DVD's to a
> smaller format, such as .avi, load a bunch of those .avi's on a thumb drive,
> and mail it to his son.
>
> So far, I've had him download DVDFab (free version) and we've successfully
> ripped one movie. From there, we tried to run it through Any Video
> Converter, and this is where we're stuck. AVC keeps telling him there is no
> audio (?) and stops cold.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions, or possibly a simpler solution? I'm
> really flying blind here and we're both getting frustrated.

Try Handbrake. It's free, fast & easy. (If only there were more women like
that)

http://download.cnet.com/HandBrake/3000-2194_4-10808250.html




alvey
From: Eric on 4 Dec 2009 17:46
You would probably do better asking over at www.videohelp.com

Here's how I do it. It may be longer and more complicated than I need
to be but it works

Of course, I would NEVER suggest doing this on anything protected
under copyright law.

1) Use DVDFab to rip the entire disk

2) Use DVD Shrink to pull out just the movies you want
Select "Reauthor" mode
Set the options to create VOBs that are bigger than 1GB (so each
movie stays in ONE VOB file)
Turn off all the extra subtiltles and audio tracks so it's a nice
clean file

3) Use SUPER to convert each VOB into an AVI
From: Dave on 4 Dec 2009 19:24
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:45:43 +1000, alvey wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:06:12 -0500, Thip wrote:
>
>> I know NOTHING about Vista. I'm trying to help a friend who's 1500
>> miles away who knows almost nothing about computers. Here's what we
>> want to do:
>>
>> His son is in Afghanistan. He wants to rip hunting movies from DVD's
>> to a smaller format, such as .avi, load a bunch of those .avi's on a
>> thumb drive, and mail it to his son.
>>
>> So far, I've had him download DVDFab (free version) and we've
>> successfully ripped one movie. From there, we tried to run it through
>> Any Video Converter, and this is where we're stuck. AVC keeps telling
>> him there is no audio (?) and stops cold.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions, or possibly a simpler solution? I'm
>> really flying blind here and we're both getting frustrated.
>
> Try Handbrake. It's free, fast & easy. (If only there were more women
> like that)
>
> http://download.cnet.com/HandBrake/3000-2194_4-10808250.html
>
>
>
>
> alvey

I love HandBrake and use it all the time but the OP asked about
conversion to .avi and the newest HandBrake 0.9.4 dropped avi,ogg/ogm
containers and xvid.

http://handbrake.fr/

"AVI: AVI is a rough beast. It is obsolete. It does not support modern
container features like chapters, muxed-in subtitles, variable framerate
video, or out of order frame display. Furthermore, HandBrake's AVI muxer
is vanilla AVI 1.0 that doesn't even support large files. The code has
not been actively maintained since 2005. Keeping it in the library while
implementing new features means a very convoluted data pipeline, full of
conditionals that make the code more difficult to read and maintain, and
make output harder to predict. As such, it is now gone. It is not coming
back, and good riddance."

The last version(0.9.3)is still available and still works for avi,ogg,etc.
http://www.filehippo.com/download_handbrake/tech/4924/


Dave

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Registered Linux user # 444770

From: Kabuki Armadillo on 4 Dec 2009 20:42
I haven't tried these personally, but have bookmarked them just in case.

bitRipper
"bitRipper is FREE DVD to AVI software that allows you to back-up your DVD's
as AVI files on the hard drive. "
http://www.bitripper.com/

FormatFactory
Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter.
Provides functions below:
All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.
Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.
http://www.formatoz.com/



HTH,

M

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