how the hell do you
 

Rip a dvd and not have it be like 8 gigs i just bought some rip software and while it works i wanna rip the shit and just have one useable file anyone have any ideas? I got copy dvd gold

Compress File?

I watched a Modern Marvels yesterday that explained MPEG compression pretty well.

I am no help.

What is the rip software you have?

You are probably looking to rip it do a .avi file or something. You can make a mirror image (backup) of the disk, but would need something like Daemon Tools to mount it. If you extract to an .avi you play it with just about any media player.

Just a quick google search showed this program http://bitripper.com/index.html which looks fairly easy and straight forward. You can change the resolution/quality which will make the file size smaller.

If you want to rip the dvd in original quality and reduce the size you will have to ask someone else as I definitely not an expert.

dvd shrink

Search for a program called handbrake. You will also need another program to decrypt the dvd on the fly and they should have a link to it on the handbrake site. I usually end up with dvds being about 1.3 gigs.

that was usefull ty shuiend. i will get back with my results

ok why the fuck does this shit have to be so fucking stupid i bought fucking software to do the god damn job and yeah i can rip and reburn but if i just rip to my harddrive the shit takes up like 8 gigs of space. Do these people just purposely make there menus etc unuseable or what?

You trying to actually make a copy of the dvd that you can use on any dvd player or just a backup for playing on computers? I have been using handbrake for several years just to make backups to .avi files for playing on my computers. Because of netflix I now have a rather large movie collection.

You're an idiot. A DVD is 8GB because it is a dual layer disc with 4.7GB on each layer capacity to maintain a high bitrate to in turn give you the highest image quality possible. You need to take the .VOB files it gives you after you rip it and then convert them into an XVID format or some other equivalent format. That will compress it into like 1GB or so, but you will lose image quality. Its not rocket science. Good image = more space. Hence why they release bluray.

i have tried oh great neon but the shit is not letting me do that i am not an idiot i just dont know my way around this software and the shit is fighting me. Both the shit i paid for and handbrake i have tried 12 diff dvds now all of varius ages and it still has yet to work the way it should. For the record i ripped the shit but it wont fucking convert.

Magna, download this and try it. Don't come back in here until you do.

There are a select few discs that won't work with dvd shrink, and most of those will work with ripit4me.

DVD Shrink does pwn. Also, I was just hating on you. Don't take me calling you an idiot seriously. Merry fucking Christmas!

well we shall see once i found the file downlaod of it, so far it seems promising but i havent completed any conversions yet. I know neo im just mostly mad about being out 50 bucks and a few hours of agrevation over this shit.

Check this out, I was reading on Doom9.org and it has good feedback. You might need to read how to use it. SUPER &copy

After you rip the dvd you should be able to use that program to re-encode the vob files into a h264 encoded video file. It lets to choose the wrapper, and all kinds of other cool shit.

Scratch that. Use this and tell it to encode in x264. FairUse Wizard - Easy DVD to iPhone, iPod Touch, iPod Classic, AppleTV, Zune, Xbox 360, PS3, Standalone DivX Player, TiVO HD. Encode with DivX, XviD, H.264, VP7 and ffVFW codecs!

You wont get a more simple menu driver re-encoder than this.

check out Doom9 you can convert anything to anything with their guides. Some are much more technical than others. Basically, if you want the best quality for the space, you need to make more effort, but the basic guides are good enough for most people.

well i have some encoding underway i will report back the results. thx guys

This is a decent guide for handbrake.

This is the software that I use to decrypt the dvd on the fly.

On my Quad core intel machine it takes me about an hour to rip a dvd and encode it to a 1.3gig avi file.

I use SUPER. it's pretty much the worst interface on the planet, but it converts everything to everything.