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[pnjtony]

I read that locked topic about ripping DVDs and trust me, i'm not into pirating, but I know what's out there. I'm going on a 2 week road trip in a couple weeks and i'll be taking my laptop which doesn't have a DVD player and I wanna take movies with me.

Now I know I've seen "DVD rips" of movies that got as small as 700MB. Small enough to just barely fit onto a CD-R. I tried that DVD Decryptor but it just made a ton of VOB files and such.

Do I use this program along with others to accomplish an avi divx file? I don't wanna wait till the last minute to do this so any help would be great.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Why not just rip the DVD to your laptop's HDD? Easier, quicker, looks better etc.

 

[SKluck]

How much HDD space do you have? Just ripping them to the HDD takes 30 minutes tops. But if you want to encode these to divx its going to take many many hours per movie. So think about that too.

IMO your best option is using DVDshrink to cut everything out of the movie/lower quality to an acceptable size while still remaining an mpeg2 and only taking an hour or less per movie.

 

[pnjtony]

well that's kinda what i thought i was doing at first, but it's not really a playable file...plus it's like 8GB and I wanna at least be able to drag 5 flicks with me. It's an older laptop. It's XP, but it's like nearly 3 years old so it's only got a 20 GB HDD which is at about 55% right now. That's why avi's would be nice on CD-Rs

I'm playing with that DVD shrink right now, but close as I can come is two 2GB files

 

[pestul]

DVDshrink is your friend..

http://www.videohelp.com/ <-- link is your friend.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Step your storage game up. Get an external HDD.