[JR]

Anyone got any recommendations for the best DVD ripper?  Free or otherwise.  Want to make a backup of some stuff.

Word.

[Jim]

check
www.videohelp.com
not done it myself so can't recomend any 1 program but I have used this site a lot in the past for some good knowledge. I tend to stay away from the doom9 stuff tho as its rather complex but very good if you can be bothered to learn it all

[Jim]

do you just want to rip to divx or xvid?
if your just want to copy dvd to dvdr then I use dvd decrypter (free) and then compress (if necessary) with dvd2one although there are a lot of one click programs that do this for you. again I've not been bothered to try them out yet

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Not DivX but DVDShrink is useful for 'backing up' DVD's :wink:

[JR]

I've used smartripper, and flaskMPEG in the past. Has worked pretty well. Also wrote a little excel spreadsheet for help configuring bitrates and stuff if you want?

g

cool, think ill try smartripper.  That excel spreadsheet cant do any harm i guess.. email it to me if thats ok, should be able to get the address from my profile...

Cheers