DVD to 650 MB AVI directly ??? anyone?

[facundosuarez]

Hello!

I love making backups of dvds but the process requires 5GB+ of HD space and I hardly ever have that much room free.

I tried FLASKMPEG's plugin to rip + encode in one step straight from DVD to DIVX but it often hangs.


What else can I try??? THX!

Facu

PS: I have a 800 MHZ AMD Duron pc with a NEC DVD drive.

[cofferscuffs]

Well you could do Gknot, but skip the SmartRipper/vStrip bit and go straight into DVD2AVI and read of the DVD but that is *highly* no recommended.

[movmasty]

in another thread i was asking how to put a dvd on hd in motion jpg instead of ripping and have the vobs.....
now hd of 60/80gigs are very cheap....

[rmatei]

Buy a new hard drive, that's the only good solution. You can afford it. Other than that, you can get a Flask version that supports reading off the DVD. But it's slow, unreliable, not-so-great quality, and most importantly it slowly kills your DVD drive.

[facundosuarez]

wooow..... why do you say it slowly kills the dvd???

[cofferscuffs]

Stress.