Rip DVD to AVI Or WMV Please help xx

[kaytee576]

Hi all, PLEASE can you help me? My dad copied footage from my video camera today to DVD and it is all mixed up, I wanted to rip the files from my DVD and save on my PC and then put them into windows movie maker to edit it, Well I have been downloading for over two hours now and NOTHING works

I want a freeware programme as I am totally broke but the few I found like Shrink and a DVD decrypter made NO SENSE and when I managed to save the files to PC with the decrypter one they were not compatible with Windows Movie Maker it seems i need to convert the vob files to WMV or AVI or somthing? the whole thing has me totally confused.



PLEASE PLEASE help, I need to convert my DVD to make it suitable for WMM but it needs to be free and easy can you help?



PS I did try some free trails ALL with the water mark across the page and also limited me to 50% of my video getting converted I WANNA CRY xxx

 

[paratwa]

Does your video camera have a 1394 or usb port on it? If so you could have downloaded it directly to your computer, that is if your system also has a 1394 port. It will most likely download as a mpeg. Then you can add that to windows media.

You can try this one, Any Video Converter 2.07. I have never used it, but it might work for you, plus it's freeware.

http://www.download.com/Any-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-10726101.html?tag=lst-0-3

 

[RedTab]

hmm btw most video converter that comes free will not allow u to convert video that have long duration..

i got my converter free but it can only convert 20min or less video

 

[kaytee576]

thanks for your help, my camera cant be connected to the pc think im at a dead end now xx

 

[Jacen_Solo762]

you need to use DVD Decrypter to rip the dvd files.
In the "Mode" menu click on IFO, then select the folder you want and hit "decrypt"
Then open up AutoGK and in the "Input file" select the .ifo file of your dvd files. then select the same folder as the output file.
select the output size, for really good quality, choose roughly 1500MB for two hours of footage. in Advanced settings, "output resolution settings" put fixed width as 720.
Because some programs have problems with VBR, click CBR (192 kbps) for the output audio type. then click 'add job' and 'start'
Depending on the speed of your computer a two hour file should take about 6 hours to do.
To make it easier, you can click on target quality (percentage) but this only does one pass and if there is significant action in the video it could end up jumping.
Once this is finished you can now delete the original dvd files and use an editing program to edit the .avi files. the XviD codec comes free with AutoGK but it does also support DivX before version 6.

Best of all, this is all FREE!!!