Right, ive got a few dvds that i want to rip to my hard drive so i dont have to take the origionals when i move out. But i dont know where to start, has anyone dont this before? can you give me anywhere to start from?

use DVD Decryptor to rip the dvds .... then use one of the encoders to convert into avi.

Cheers, but i am a TOTAL N00B at this, whats a good encoder to use?

www.doom9.net

there is a whole tutorial on how do to it and what to use.

thanks mate

http://www.videohelp.com/ has more information but doom9 should suffice

i say use DVD Shrink. it rips the DVD to fit to 4.3GB which you can then burn to a single DVD media, or save it as a folder on your computer which PowerDVD can just load up and play anytime. and it's SUPER easy.

i use smartripper to copy the dvd to the hdd and clonedvd to burn it. Thats really all there is to it.

www.dvdshrink.com - it shrinks any dvd to fit any normal dvd-r and you can either burn the movie onto ur hard drive or burn it onto the memory and divert to nero and burn it...

word of warning..if u burn it to hard drive, and u go to burn it with another program, make sure the folder the movie is in, is called VIDEO_TS otherwise it wont burn as a dvd.

I've just used Intervideo DVD Copy since it came with my Motherboard, and I always have AnyDVD running the background which cracks the DVD Copy Protection. And that's nice and easy to use. You could even have it burn straight to a DVD if you wanted as well.