Can anyone point me towards some DVD ripping freeware, so I can back up my DVDs to SVCD

had www.download.com not got anythin?

Smart ripper v.3 is quite a good one to use as it comes with compression software to help you cram all the info off a dvd onto a standard cd (using the DiVX video and the MPEG2 audio codecs)

 

Don't ask me where the [censored] you'd get a copy though - have been looking to replace my copy for a while now

you want DVD2SVCD mate, with i think cinemacraft codec.

 

very good combination there mate!

i used to do this, mates always told me it would take 6 hours to encode a dvd to avi/mpeg. never took more than 2 though so its a damn useful way to copy dvd's.

 

used smart ripper to take off the vob files then encoded with flask (not very good but hey).

I am using dvd2svcd, but it is taking 7 hours, and has to burn to CD

Smart ripper v.3 is quite a good one to use as it comes with compression software to help you cram all the info off a dvd onto a standard cd (using the DiVX video and the MPEG2 audio codecs)

 

Don't ask me where the [censored] you'd get a copy though - have been looking to replace my copy for a while now

 

heres a link to version 2.41 if thats any good http://doom9.org/Soft21/Rippers/SR241.rar (you'll need winRAR to decompress it)

you want DVD2SVCD mate, with i think cinemacraft codec.

 

Agreed ive used that b4. it does take ages but a lot of the others seemed to mess up the audio / vidoe sync everytime.

I left it running over night, and have watched the first 10 minutes, and it looks pretty good. It is a NIN live DVD I am ripping, the sound and stereo definition seems pretty good, and it seems to have dealt well with the extreme lighting effects in full screen. But 7 hours for a 50 min segemnt seemed a bit much.

lol at least its good quality!

seconded - i use smartripper and it's pretty fast. ripping is generally pretty fast. it's normally the encoding which is very slow.

 

alasdair