Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge
It's not illegal to make backups of your own dvd's, vcr's, music cd's, software or any other material that you own. By law you have the right to do this.
I have never known ANYONE that actually backs up dvd's to SVCD that they own.
Your right, ripping to SVCD would be a headache, since most of the time it would take several SVCD's to show a complete movie that you can see with just 1 DVD.
However, I do rip and encode some of my DVD movies into DivX format so I can:
1) keep my kids grubby fingers off them.
2) put them on my kids computers, they can watch them anytime on their own
3) take them with me on my laptop instead of all the original DVD's.
4) install them on my "media" computer that is connected to my entertainment center, mostly because I'm lazy and I don't want to have to get up and change discs all the time, but also for #1 above, including my own grubby fingers.
For ripping: SmartRipper
For encoding: FlaskMpeg
I've been playing around with GordianKnot, but haven't got it quite figured out yet (guess I should read the tutorial).
Now if you had a DVD burner, hmmm....
