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DVDs & Films Forum - Current best freeware for ripping DVD to AVI? - Page 1
posted by Rob Shepherd on Saturday, 21st August 2010, 13:01
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I know handbrake will go to MKV, which is fine for my iPhone, but if I want to rip episodes of shows to AVI so I can store them on a USB stick what is the easiest freeware for doing it atm?
Really want to just stick in the DVD, select the episodes and have it rip each one to a separate file.
TIA!
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posted by Miles on Saturday, 21st August 2010, 13:13
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Why AVI specifically Rob?
I use Handbrake for ripping to MP4 files (for the iPhone and for the PS3).
For the iphone I stick to the MPEG4 codec (for speed), but for the PS3 I use x264 (generally better quality, but takes a lot longer to encode).
posted by smurfette on Saturday, 21st August 2010, 13:44
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Hahahaha - I read the title and thought this was the latest piece of spam on the forum1 lol
Then saw it was RJS who posted and thought he's turned into a closet spammer. 
posted by Rob Shepherd on Saturday, 21st August 2010, 18:51
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Has to be AVI because various devices that playback from USB don't support MP4 or MKV. 
Don't worry smurfette, I'll be back soon on another account to promote some crappy pay for product!
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posted by Miles on Saturday, 21st August 2010, 22:20
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Haven't done any Xvid/DivX conversions for a while. Last time I did it was when Handbrake still supported it. So unfortunately I can't recommend anything for that.
Some of the others on here raved about "Super" though.
www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
posted by Rob Shepherd on Saturday, 21st August 2010, 23:39
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Yes I've used Super before, but it will only convert the VOB files with no concept of titles or episodes. 
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posted by Mark Oates on Sunday, 22nd August 2010, 01:13
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I used Handbrake to stick a DVD movie on my iPod.
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posted by pat-w on Sunday, 22nd August 2010, 01:17
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XMedia Recode is the program I use to convert to other formats after using Handbrake to rip.
It can also rip from disc, but I've not used it for that.
One thing, the default is German but the last few updates have all installed in English when English is selected on install (it used to install in German whatever)
They also have a portable version to use from a USB but I haven't tried that, I don't really see the point. (unless using a work's PC maybe...?)
worth a look
This item was edited on Monday, 23rd August 2010, 02:22
posted by Rob Shepherd on Sunday, 22nd August 2010, 23:26
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I don't want to re-encode I guess there isn't an easy option to go straight to AVI that is free.
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posted by Chris Gould on Monday, 23rd August 2010, 02:33
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Have you tried SimpleDivX? I used it a while ago and you can encode direct from the disc providing you have a program that decrypts on the fly (if not you have to rip first).
