Dvd To Avi Freeware

[billzant]

Dear Forum,

I am looking for freeware that will convert DVD format to avi. Can you help?

Hope you are keeping well,

All the Best

Bill Z

[Prasert]

Do you mean the format used on DVD camcorders?

Set the camera to use VR. After filming, you'll find a .VRO file on the disc, which can be converted to raw AVI using AVS Video Converter. Search Mininova for the torrent and download it. It has the required patches included.

[billzant]

Thanks Prasert bt that is not it.

I have a DVD, and I want to show it on my website. But a DVD is up to 5Gb. I was wondering whether I could convert the DVD to another smaller format and upload that.

Hope you are keeping well,

All the Best

Bill Z

[Prasert]

Let's say your DVD lasts an hour. Even if you convert the video down to e.g. FLV, you still need a webserver capable of streaming the video. Few people watching and you need several Mbps upload bandwidth. And hosting companies are not really fond of customers taking loads of bandwidth. Maybe you should consider other options like the ability to download or link to youtube (max 10 minutes per movie).

[Guest Reimar]

Maybe you check out the following websites:

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/F...h-Converter.htm

http://www.media-convert.com/

http://www.johnrockefeller.net/?p=202

Good luck.

[katana]

In the past, I have used AutoGK to do that (freeware).

http://www.autogk.me.uk/

[loong]

Aren't avi files larger than DVD (MPEG)

My camcorder (tape) uses avi and 1 Gig file is about 5 minutes long

WinDVD creator will convert to windows media file and comes in the windows package, but a 2 hour DVD will still be over 300MB

[dave_boo]

Use Handbrake in combination with DVD43. DVD43 has the CSS stripping ability and Handbrake will convert your file to you desired format. H.264 is a good format since at a smaller bit rate it looks better than the others (mpeg4 and XVid), but beware that it requires significant processing power to transcode.

[pavgater01]

Dear Forum,

I am looking for freeware that will convert DVD format to avi. Can you help?

Hope you are keeping well,

All the Best

Bill Z

What I am using is Pavtube DVD Ripper. It can converts DVD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, MP3, etc.

However, it's not free.

I prefer it as it's easy-to-use, demanding no special technical skills.

By the way, I think in order to get good quality and good service, sometimes we have to pay and I believe they are worth to.

[Jiu-Jitsu]

In addition to AutoGK and HandBrake. There is Fair Use Wizard 2.

[anniebehrman]

Yeah, pavgater01, thanks for your sharing. The program you suggest is worth to try.

Edited March 26, 2009 by anniebehrman

[monty]

Aren't avi files larger than DVD (MPEG)

My camcorder (tape) uses avi and 1 Gig file is about 5 minutes long

WinDVD creator will convert to windows media file and comes in the windows package, but a 2 hour DVD will still be over 300MB

Camcorders create DV with the AVI extension. These files are huge.

But if you convert to divx, you also end up with the .avi extension, but a much smaller file!

[ernest1966]

AVI files are a container type, this means you can have a combination of video + audio encoding for the video. In your case the reason the file is so huge is because the video and audio are not encoded just in raw format, i.e not compressed via a codec like (video) divx/xvid, (audio) mp3

divx is a split off from xvid , which is commercial

xvid is a the the freeware, free sourced encoding method

autogk is a tool that allows you to encode avi files using either divx/xvid (it installs xvid for you if you want)

hope this helps

E

[agent69]

just a quick search on Google, http://bitripper.com/ looks like its free and should do what you want.