I need your Opinion? Transfering DVD to CD-R.

[Rond66]

Can anyone tell me if this program is good or better than freeware?
I saw it at Office Depot for $9.99.

http://www.cosmi.com/html/product%20pages/utilities/DVD_Ripper.htm

DVD RIPPER

Replicate DVD movies without a DVD recorder! Convert any DVD into a CD-R and take along and play your favorite movies anywhere! No more lost movies with backups that you created yourself! Supports Dolby surround sound and foreign subtitles.

Play Movies Anywhere!
All you need is a DVD player and a CD-R drive to burn your copies. Simply place the DVD and CD-R into their respective drives and click GO. Then, take your copies with you and replay them on your laptop, another computer and on a standard or portable DVD player anywhere!

Conversion Made Easy
Easily convert a DVD to a compressed CD-R for more versatility with your PC, CD or DVD players. Select your own custom level of compression for the highest DVD video and surround sound quality. Preview your new CD during the conversion process. Supports foreign languages and subtitled DVD's.

Features:

Rip copies quickly with wizard-based operation
Transfer DVD to CD-R
No DVD recorder needed!
Create Video CDs that play in any DVD player
Auto selects most efficient compression
Supports user-defined compression levels
Store up to 100 minutes of DVD content on 1 CD-R
Rip to multiple CD-R's, if desired
Preview during conversion
Supports VCD and SVCD
Supports Dolby ® surround sound
Supports MPEG1, MPEG2 and DIVX
Supports foreign language subtitles

[AarontheRipper]

If you want to, you can get it, but when I was doing VCD's I only used two programs, and both are freeware. I used EasyVCD and VCDEasy and that was all I needed to put my DVD's onto VCD. Those two programs do it all. They rip, reencode, and burn, and best of all they're both free.

[Rond66]

AarontheRipper thanks, but I was looking to try an all in one program.
I was hoping someone had tried Cosmi DVD RIPPER and can tell us its Pros and Cons. That someone may be me soon.

Thanks,
Ron