dvd to wmv?

[newtie]

Hi all,

Could someone recommend some relative cheap software that they've had success with in converting dvds to wmv?

Thanks,
Mark

[Mug Funky]

here's what you need:

- your choice of DVD decrypting programs (not sure if DVDdecrypter is still legal to download these days). free.

- DGindex (free)

- avisynth for IVTC, cropping, resizing, denoising, etc'ing (free)

- virtualdub(mod) for checking the output of avisynth (free)

- windows media encoder (free-ish - it's MS after all).

unless you really need to use windows media, don't. it's shocking. the audio sounds bad at all bitrates, and the video has poor 2-pass prediction (files are always too big) and 1-pass looks like crap pretty much all the time unless the bitrate is huge.

mpeg-4 AVC is far superior to current implementations of WMV/VC1. so go download x264, FAAC and mp4box and use that :). or use VLC player to do it all for you, as it's much easier that way.