Spent the weekend tearing (whats left of) my hair out trying to work out how to do this DVD to Vcd thing.

I now have a 14gb partition after merging two smaller ones, so that should be enough sizewise.

I just cannot get on with Smart Ripper..every time I try to use it, it tells me that some files are locked. So I tried CladDVD XP and had more success..The walk through on here is obviously for an earlier version, but the basics are the same, and the software writers home site is quite helpful. However, I'm encountering this problem. The disc I'm trying to rip has 6 1,048,000kb (plus change) .vob files, plus a 7th one of 770,000kb..CladDVD XP starts to rip them fine, but when it gets to about 770,000kb of the fourth .vob file, it stops and my DVD drive seems to 'disappear' from my PC (Open up 'My Computer' and it's gone)..I reboot and it returns.

I actually ran the three fininshed .vob files through DVD2AVI and then through TMPGEnc and it made a perfect ,mpeg file, but every time I've tried it, the problem kicks in at exactly the same position.

I suppose the answer could be to start the rip from the fourth .vob file, but in CadDVD, I don't see any wat of starting from a point any different than the first one.

Any ideas please?