DVD to M-PEG (Possibly)?

[munchieman1019]

Hi,

Not sure if I have this in the right forum or not. I apologize if I dont. My question is, If I play DVD in my laptop, is there a way or a program I can use to be able to save the movie to my hard drive or convert it into some type of form (AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, DIVX) where I can watch it on my work PC that does not have a DVD-ROM drive?


Thanks
munchieman1019

[redwudz]

Try FairUse Wizard. It converts to XVID fairly quickly and you should be able to burn the result to a CD. You will need a XVID player to view the video. I use Zoom player and VLC media player. VLC is the most versatile. All programs are freeware, though Zoom has a pay upgrade.

EDIT: Fairuse is free for 700MB size, bigger there's a small fee. But try it out. Zoom player needs the XVID codec to play, but VLC has it's own codec.

[munchieman1019]

Thanks. I'll try it out

[munchieman1019]

How quickly is quickly? Itried to convert to DivX and I left the computer on for 6 hours and it wasnt done. I tried XVID and had the same result.

[Abond]

It depends of the CPU (the one you don't know right now )

[pchan]

Can try DVDX.

[redwudz]

It took me about 2 hours to convert my copy of 'Ice Age' to XVID using FairUse and burn onto a 700MB CD. Settings were mostly default. That seems fairly quick to me. And that's using a 1.9Ghz AMD CPU. And it's not fast.

The quality looks good and it plays perfectly on my laptop. CPU speed is the main factor for encoding time. Crunching down a DVD to the size that will fit on a CD and display decent quality takes a lot of computing power.

If your system is slower, let it run overnight.

[Werder]

VLC can play the iso file directly, so there is no need to convert to a different format. Use DVDdecrypter (or DVDshrink if you want to remove some unwanted material) to rip the iso file to HD.

[munchieman1019]

I was finally able to get it to work. It took about 2 1/2 hrs. (long but not bad). I usually do just use DVDDecrypter and watch the ISO image, but I wated to be able to let less "computer friendly" friends watch them too. Thanks to all of you for your help. Oh, its a 2.80ghz Pent. 4

[jimmalenko]

I like AutoGK to go to XviD, or you could convert to WMV either using Windows Movie Maker or Windows Media Encoder.

BTW, I *think* fair use only covers backups for your own personal use, not for giving to friends ...

[munchieman1019]

How do do it using Windows Movie Maker?

[jimmalenko]

I think you need to convert to an AVI first, then load that into Windows Movie Maker, because WMM does not like MPEG-2 files as source, judging by my own tests, as well as numerous googles ...

[offline]

An older but unrestricted version of Fairuse is
available here

[munchieman1019]

Is there a way to convert to M-PEG, AVI or WMV using Nero? I already have an ISO image of some movies. So I was wondering if I could conveert those. I'm using FairUse to convert something now and I was thinking I could use NEro to do some of the ISO images.

[munchieman1019]

So if I mount them on to my virtual drive can I then use Nero or another program to convert it like Fairuse?