Ripping Dvd To Avi

[megs8888]

Hi all great site and keepup the good work with all your advice for us newbies, I have a few questions

1. I am wanting a good program for converting my iso dvd 4.7GB file to avi 1GB something simple and fast.

2. Am I able to get a program that lets me do this in batches with multiple movie iso files, by that I mean I am currently using fairuse program which isnt bad, but it will only do 1 at a time, if i have 10 iso movies on my HD i would like to convert them 1 after the other rather than coming back to my laptop every hour and restarting the next conversion. Then if I go to work I can let it run all day and come home to 10 movies that have been converted from iso to avi. thanks for your help guys hope this is the right section thanks again .

[neuron2]

Where are you getting the ISOs? You have to come back to rip them individually from the DVDs so how do you batch that? Just kick off each encode after you rip each DVD.

Also, please read the forum rules and don't ask "what's best" (rule 12).

[setarip_old]

@megs8888

Hi!

1) Your biggest stumbling block may be finding a program other than "FairUse" that accepts .ISO image files for input

2) If you know that you want to convert your multiple original, commercial DVDs to .AVIs, there's no need to create .ISO image files.

Instead, rip them to your hard drive as "full DVD packages" (.IFOs, .BUPs, .VOBs) and use MPEG Mediator SPECIAL EDITION and its batch processing function...

[megs8888]

THANKS for the advice and apologies for rule breach !! thanks guys

[setarip_old]

So what is it you now intend to use instead of FairUse?

[megs8888]

I like FUSE but its very slow, I will try the new one and do it straight from the disc hopefully that will be quicker and more productive its all a very slow process. any other ideas basically I want to get dvd to avi as quick as possible and do it in batches so I can leave my laptop running and its being productive by converting movies.

[chilledoutuk]

you could just mount the image with daemon tools and then run the encode from that.

[setarip_old]

@megs8888

Have you, as I suggested, tried "MPEG Mediator Special Edition"?

[megs8888]

I had trouble understanding it is their a basic user guide somewhere, or could you explain how to use it sorry for that thanks for all your help.

[setarip_old]

Click on the following link - it covers most aspects of using the "standard" version. The "Special Edition" primarily makes two additions - batch processing and processing via .IFO (rather than individual .VOBs)...

http://seemoredigital.net/05_How_to..._Files/MPEG_Mediator_1.5.html