Hello, first of all I searched through the Forums already and was unsuccessful to find answers to one of my questions (So I hope this is a first posting of this). I was succesfully turning DVD's to VCD format for about 4 different times as of 2 weeks ago. I was using Smartripper, DVD2AVI and TMPG. But for the last 20 tries, it seems that it keeps on freezing near the end when using DVD2AVI. It's almost the same place every movie. I've tried this on several different machines, (WinNT, XP, 98 ) and same problem. Any ideas to verify if my SmartRipper worked fine, or determine where the problem is? I've upgraded to 256MB of Ram as well. The only thing I didn't try is another HD. Any suggestions?

Second question, if the above keeps failing, what is the best way or latest util's that everyone is using now to do what I'm doing? IS there a better, more efficient, faster way? Thanks.