What's the best/easiest way to rip DVD to Divx?

[superkdogg]

I've read some articles on how to rip DVD's to Divx, but they all seem to have a VCD encode or burn, or a resize of the rip to 700 MB as the ultimate goal. What I want to do is rip my DVD's to Divx for storage on my HTPC's hard drive. The actual size is secondary to having some compression and having them on the HDD for easy access.

Please suggest apps and/or methodology to do this in the easiest way possible. Thanks in advance.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

1) Take article
2) Change "700MB" to "1400MB" or whatever you like
3) ...
4) Profit!

- M4H

 

[ttown]

I think you want DVDDecrypter and maybe DVDShrink and maybe TMPGenc

 

[Bateluer]

www.doom9.org

I find that Gordianknot used with DivX5 or XviD is an excellent program for ripping DVDs.

 

[bamacre]

THIS THING ROCKS LIKE A MOFO

Easy as clicking a few buttons.

Encode with DivX or Xvid, choose from multiple audio formats.

It used to be free, now they ask for a donation, IIRC. Worth every penny.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Both Fairuse and Dr. Divx are good DVD to Divx programs, but Dr. Divx is ~$40 or so and you could get Fairuse for much cheaper.

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: bamacre
THIS THING ROCKS LIKE A MOFO

Easy as clicking a few buttons.

Encode with DivX or Xvid, choose from multiple audio formats.

It used to be free, now they ask for a donation, IIRC. Worth every penny.

Do you know where you can get the previously free version still?



*JUST TO BE CLEAR I AM NOT ASKING FOR THE CURRENT PAY VERSION*

 

[Homerboy]

FAIRUSE is the best...hands down
Its a shame that he started charging for it (and a joke as he hides behind his GNU disclaimer)

 

[Bulldog13]

http://www.autogk.net/

 

[Bulldog13]

Forgot the tutorial :

http://len0xmirror1.serveftp.n...x/tutorial/AutoGK.html

 

[gtd2000]

I use No.1 DVD Ripper.

Been using it over a year - there is a cost involved though - works very well indeed.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
FAIRUSE is the best...hands down
Its a shame that he started charging for it (and a joke as he hides behind his GNU disclaimer)

Yeah, I don't use it much anymore, but when I do, I just use an older version I still have. Works fine. Fair Use is by far the best dvd2divx program I have ever used.

 

[LordSnailz]

Hook us up shareware bamacre! =)