Blu-Ray and DVD to xvid.

[Big Vern]

Not done this for a while, so was wondering what tools are people using to encode blu-rays and DVDs to xvid?

Got the youngest Daughter a little media streamer, with hard drive, for her room so when so has sleep-overs or friends around, they can pick and choose what films they want to watch without throwing the discs around like frisbees!

Regards...

[kalehrl]

I use MeGUI mostly.
For dvd to xvid maybe the simplest tool but quite good is AutoGK.

[setarip_old]

I believe both multiAVCHD and BD Rebuilder have that capability...

[Chetwood]

Staxrip, Hybrid, Handbrake...

[manolito]

Staxrip, Hybrid, Handbrake...
Handbrake ditched XviD support several years ago...


Cheers
manolito

[Chetwood]

Sure, but the 0.9.3 is still available and does its job.

[carla2013]

Have you tried Avgo Media Recorder? If it doesn't work properly, try Backup Blu-ray and launch the Bluray ripper.

[Darksoul71]

My suggestion:
Dump BD / DVD to MKV with MakeMKV. Then shrink to MPEG4 with Handbrake. This process should be pretty straight forward.
Although a "Transcoder GUI" like WinFF or Freemake Videocoder might make it simpler to shrink the stuff to MPEG4 by using the right preset.
DivX/XVid/MPEG4 with MP3 Audio inside an AVI container should be the most compatible format here...

[Big Vern]

Thanks for the replies chaps!

I went for RipBot in the end, to SD-MP4. She has a small 28 flat screen, and they do look nice :)