DVD to VCD - Small Hard Drive

[joerv007]

Can anyone please help?

I would like to be able to copy DVDs to VCD on my computer using my DVD Rom drive and my CD Writer.

Nearly all of the software I have found on the internet to do this means I've go to have about 10GB of hard drive space on my computer to copy the DVD files, and convert them to MPGs (i.e. with Eazy VCD)

Alternativly, I could use SmartRipper and do it a DVD chapter by chapter but it would take hours to encode the video to MPG using TMPGEnc.

Does anyone have a better solution? I can free about 2-3GB on my computer if that helps.

Is there software that will encode the MPG as it rips so that I dont have to have masses of drive space? Is there and All In One burner program that will rip the files and burn to a VCD and then when 1 disc is full, let me insert another one and continue?

Any help would be appreciated. Cheers!

[ktnwin]

Here is the easy solution for you: go get a larger hard drive and connect as second drive, they are very cheap these days. For 20$ you can get a 20GB hard drive easily.
If you are talking about a laptop - then it cost a little more.

[Gazorgan]

Anydvd to remove encryption on the fly.
DVD2AVI and save the project. This gives you a WAV to encode and a pseudo AVI to encode to video.

You need disk space for the audio (1 GB) and the final MPG. I suggest you do SVCD, as the quality is far superior to VCD.

Also search kvcd and xsvcd

[joerv007]

Thanks for the advice.

I think thats what im gonna do. Since I am in the UK, things are a bit more expensive over here! I will have a look on eBay and see if I can get one cheap there.

I don't want to buy a hard drive unless I have to. If there is another way of doing it, i'll try that.