HORROR STORY !!!

[loco1]

over the weekend, i was using dup-dvd to rip a dvd. this movie was a bit long, 3 hrs. the whole process was going to take around 10hrs. well, at about the 5 hour, my dvd drive starts making this horrible noise. i run over to it to see whats going on and there was an authentication error on the screen. i stopped the process and tried to open the dvd drive. the dvd had gotten so hot that it melted inised the drive. now, my drive is ruined and i have to pay for the dvd that i rented...... WHAT A CROCK OF SH@T !!!!!

[BerrantRyke]

One more reason to use SmartRipper and use multiple programs to achieve the end result. Sorry for your luck. Ebay has some good deals of DVD drives.

[Hiei]

Rip the DVD to your Harddrive.

[silab]

Among all the programs that do it really right, it would be DVD2SVCD.

It might be an all around program (which is actually a plus) but it rips the entire movie to harddrive before it proceeds to converting it to SVCD file.

[jasond]

Among all the programs that do it really right, it would be DVD2SVCD.

It might be an all around program (which is actually a plus) but it rips the entire movie to harddrive before it proceeds to converting it to SVCD file.

I agree! DVD2SVCD rules

I have it running on my box 22hrs a day

[bilbogod]

I totally agree... I just started using DVD2SVCD and its plain awesome.
BUT big BUT !!!
2 questions if someone can answer this for me please:-

1) I notice that when looking at the Windows system monitor that it shows CPU useage for DVD2SVCD as running at 100% Is this either good for my p.c. or safe ????

2)Purely out of curiosity, how many passes would people say were equivalent to the TMPGenc standard SVCD template. I've been running this on four but it obviously takes quite a long time. What is just one pass like??