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Farid Shahin

2nd January 2006, 12:06

hey,

i have gone into you tuts but i want to know what is the best format to convert my dvd to so that i can play it on the computers with no problems. and also if ther is 1 program that can do this for me..

thanks

manono

2nd January 2006, 14:47

Hi-

...i want to know what is the best format to convert my dvd to so that i can play it on the computers...

Convert it to what? If AVI, then most likely AutoGK is the way to go:

http://www.doom9.org/autogk.htm

blutach

2nd January 2006, 22:55

Why bother? DL Media Player Classic (free). It will play your DVDs and other video files, no problems.

Regards

setarip_old

2nd January 2006, 23:27

best format to convert my dvd to so that i can play it on the computers with no problems.
@Farid Shahin

1) Are you talking about only one DVD, several DVDs, or many DVDs?

2) Are you talking about playing on only computers that you own?

3) Is hard drive space a concern?

Farid Shahin

3rd January 2006, 04:08

@Farid Shahin

1) Are you talking about only one DVD, several DVDs, or many DVDs?

2) Are you talking about playing on only computers that you own?

3) Is hard drive space a concern?

i am talking about sereral DVDs and i want to play them on my computer and outhers (transfering is no big deal) and i have plent of hard drive space and also i have the time

Guest

3rd January 2006, 04:24

i want to know what is the best format Farid, please read and follow the forum rules. This violates rule 12: do not ask what's best. And your title violates rule 9: use a proper thread title. Thank you.
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setarip_old

3rd January 2006, 05:38

i am talking about sereral DVDs and i want to play them on my computer and outhers (transfering is no big deal) and i have plent of hard drive space and also i have the timeThen, as previously mentioned, there's no need to do any converting. Rip the DVDs (DVD Decrypter v.3.5.4 will rip the vast majority of DVDs) to your hard drive and then simply use either freeware program, VLC (my personal favorite) or Media Player Classic, to play the DVD "packages"...

feedback

3rd January 2006, 07:37

i am talking about sereral DVDs and i want to play them on my computer and outhers (transfering is no big deal) and i have plent of hard drive space and also i have the time
Rip them to your HD in ISO mode with DVD Decrypter. They will be around 7 or 8 gigs each. You can then use DVD Shrink to rip just the movie and delete the rest if you want to. The resulting files will still be around 4.5 gig.

You may want to take a look in the Xvid forum here at doom9. If you keep the movies in Xvid format you will save a tremendous amount of HD space.

Or, you may want to encode them to mpeg4 which will also save you a lot of space.
So, read up on Xvid and mpeg4 then make a choice or keep them in mpeg2.