help with ripping anime dvds

[yangus]

i was wondering if anyone has experience ripping dvds into avi files? i'm doing this because i got a couple of evangelion dvds that i want to convert but i've never tried it before. according to some articles i got from http://www.digital-digest.com/, there's 2 ways to convert it, flask and mpeg2avi, the latter being the harder one. well i'm stuck, flask is reputed to be easier for beginner but is very inflexible and m2a is harder but supposingly better quality. anyone have experiences they care to share? btw i want the subtitles to play along, which i heard requires a seperate process. please any help appreciated! also i'm running win2k, are there any incompatiblities? here's my spec:
duron650
256mb ram
20 gb hd
voodoo3 graphics
built in soundcard (it's crap)

[err...]

FlaskMPEG is easy to use but i have not used M2A so i cant comment on that one. however with a 650mhz cpu it will take a long time to encode a movie into a AVI file. And by AVI i assumeing that you are talking about Divx. i've tryied to make subtitles on my Divx for a while ( 2 days ) with out success.

[kriskim]

anime dvds are particularly difficult to encode, mainly because all the dvd companies hard-telecine their dvds - ie, the stream itself is now a 29.97fps interlaced file, not a 23.976fps with 2:3pulldown flags. so inverse telecining can become VERY HAIRY.

but apart from that, i think your best route would be as follows.
smartripper (to rip your episodes) -> dvd2avi (force film OFF as it will probably be 29.976fps interlaced) -> vfapi -> virtualdub (resize, add subtitles with vobsub, ivtc) -> save as divx.