Disk Space Required for DVD Rip

[BadAsh]

How much disk space is required to Rip a DVD to "uncompressed" Video and Audio?

I have never ripped a DVD and am wondering about size and quality.

What do you recommend.... rip "uncompressed" or use the DivX codec for Encoding?

My purpose is to make VCDs but I don't want to sacrifice (too much) quality in doing so.

I have ready the guides here at VCDHelp and DivXDigest and several posts here in this Forum but most people talk of using some sort of compression for ripping.

Does anyone have any experience ripping totally "uncompressed" and if so, how big of a hard drive would you need for a typical 2 hour movie?

And for those that use the DivX Encoding, what do you think... do you get decent quality DVD to VCD rips using the DivX codec?

Thanks for any help you all may provide.

[VidGuy]

You almost never rip a dvd uncompressed - what you do is use something like SmartRipper to "rip" the MPeg video/audio to your harddrive, which takes about 10 GB. Then you use something like DVD2AVI or FlaskMPeg to serve it to the encoder so that you don't need the uncompressed video on disk. The uncompressed audio is about 1-2 GB as a WAV file, usually. Huffyuv-encoded video (a lossless encoder) would be on the order of 50-100 GB and I hate to think about uncompressed video sizes.