Sefy first. A good analysis. Then a QUESTION. If you don't want the analysis, thats fine, but PLEASE read the question. I NEED HELP.

Thank you for the wonderful how to guide replete with links to software, visuals and some real world experience. I ripped my first DVD last night and burned Part 1 (it will require 2 disks) . I will tell you what I used but for the most part, the effort was fairly easy. Two items that would have been easier.
1) Some of the software versions have changed, thus there are minor screen differences that were a tad confusing.
2) A few links have software than cannot be found.

Anyway, my starting title was Snow White.

I USed
DVD Decryptor - Pretty good (gives an option now to merge VOB's)
DVD2AVI - Pretty Good
TPMG

At this juncture, with a split file, I had two choices

Make a simple NERO VCD with a menu
Try the CHpater X , VCDEASY, FireBurner method

I did both however, Fireburner doesn't work since they want money for the product. I was able to simulate a successful burn however, every time I say BUrn , it wants to TEST , not burn. Oh Well.

So I did the normal NERO as I do. End result, part 1 burned, picture looks beautiful EXCEPT................


Question : On Pictures where it is just a scene, or VERY slow movement, it is fine. But as snow white sings, prince rides a horse, etc....It looks jerky , as if frames are dropped. This confuses me because since we are not capturing but basically copying and re-encoding formats, frame drop should not be an issue, it should be a straightforward conversion, yes ???? Is this because Snow white is a cartoon ? Or are we in fact loosing enough frames in transition to cause this.

The most overwhelming part is of these, which is the culprit ?
DVD Decrypt
DVD2AVI
TPMG
NERO

If I had to hazard a guess, I would say DVD2AVI.

Anyones help is much appeciated !!!! BTW...This is not a SLOW machine issue. My specs below

DELL 4300 1.6 gighrz with 512 meg PC150 RAM (overclockers)
WD 120 gig 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard drive
ATT ALL in wonder 128 Pro Capture card
Pioneer 16x/40x DVD - CD-Rom
16/10/40 CD-RW drive
Intels Application Accelerator running in place of ATA
Running Windows XP