I decided to back up all my DVDs to my hard drives to that I don't have to get up and change DVDs like a sucker anymore.

The PS3 will support DIVX soon and carina's got her itouch that she wants to watch movies on. Since I hardly never watch DVDs at all (hate changing them) I figure if they are on a hard drive somewhere, I will watch them more. And why not, all my CDs are on mp3 now anyhow.

Does anyone out there do this?
I'm trying to rip some things now... and it's taking soooo long.
DVDFAB = ripper
autogk = encoder

the file's been cranking away for an hour on one 55 minute file.

I've converted a few DVDs to AVI. Usually I can rip it in about 30-40 minutes, but the encoding to AVI took like 7 or 8 hours if I remember correctly. too fucking long

Hit up doom9.org if you want to do it right. My production chain basically goes DVD Decrypter -> DGindex -> a few cleanups in the AVS script -> Virtual Dub with maybe a couple filters depending on how beat up the picture is and if I care about fixing it, but if you don't care about removing interlacing or stuff, some of these steps can be skipped. Also, this is old kit, and whatever's been put out recently is probably better and faster.

3 hours 35 minutes 33 seconds

the Autogk uses virtual dub and lame to encode. a 55 minute show just took 3 hours 35 minutes 33 seconds

I still rip DVDs to full size isos.

I'm not about to do that...