dvd shrinking and conveting

Cogman

Lifer
Sep 19, 2000
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I've been playing with my PDA, and have come to the conclusion that it would pretty nice to be able to watch a movie on it (put my SD card to some good use :)) Now, the screen is smaller, and the quality does not have to be uber clean for me. So how would I go about converting a DVD to a WMA or AVI file that I can view on my PDA? I would like to be able to shrink the ratio as well.

Another question that I have is, is there a free DVD Codec out there? It would be helpful for me so that I can get WMP to run my dvds (though, doesn't Mplayer have a built in DVD Codec?)

Thanks for the help.
 

Cogman

Lifer
Sep 19, 2000
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I found what I was looking for. For the curious, I am using a combination of DVDx and DVD Decrypter to get the Media file that I want. Thanks for you that might have done some searching for me.

However, I am still on the lookout for a dvd codec if anyone is interested in pointing me in the right direction. Thanks.