Opinions Please

[OzarkBaby]

I am wanting to buy what the consesus would be for the best Ripper that converts the movie to different things like mpeg and such. What would any of you suggest?

[freebird73717]

Why buy when there are ton's of freeware programs out there. What exactly are you wanting to do?

[mats.hogberg]

A ripper doesn't convert. For rippers, take a look here: https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/decrypters-dvd-rippers - there are user ratings for those. Much better than random posts in this thread, if you're looking for guidance.

/Mats

[OzarkBaby]

Sorry but I have seen rippers that say that they rip from the dvd and make a mpeg and other portable files, as opposed to ripping stright for an absolute copy of the dvd to burn onto. Did you understand what I just said? LOL Not real good at this jargon and all yet, still very new to it all. I have DVD Decrypter, Dameon Tools, Recode 2, and DVD Shrink. I tried using recode and the video came out looking really great but the sound was all off. I have no idea what I did wrong but I am sure it was me since I really have no idea what I am doing. I followed the guide from here for using Recode and I used another guide I had found for using DVD Decrypter. I want to be able to convert them into smaller videos to keep on my external hard drive and then be able to also convert them back into a usuanle thing to burn onto a DVD if necessary. I hope that I explained myself. I just want to be able to do all of this and I am willing to work at it until I get it right. I have no trouble to music CDs but I realize that they are much different. Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appareciated.

[mats.hogberg]

There are tons (171 actually) of guides written on the subject of DVD to ??? if you look under CONVERT left:
Just make your mind up on what format you want it converted to.
For simple (yet good) DVD to XviD AVI, use DVDFab Decrypter + AutoGK

/Mats

[lordsmurf]

You want the impossible.

Converting to "smaller videos" will lose quality, and you could never again turn it back into a DVD like the original.

An all-in-one tool is what would rip and re-convert. Those never work well.