I've a friend who has been provided with some footage on DVD and needs to pull it from the DVD and convert it to something he can put on the web.

Is there any freeware anyone could suggest that he could use for this? He's PC based.

You can use Flask Mpeg DeCSS to rip the .vob files, to mpg2 files on your harddrive.

(Then you convert to .avi if you like)

http://go.to/myflask/

:cool:

Checkout DVDcloner 2 they have a trial period something like 30 uses . They also have app that converts dvd to AVI, MP3, Etc. I bought dvd cloner thinking I could use it for duplicating dvds made on my Philips DVDR 615 HAAA! didn't work. I had to use their game cloner to do that. It worked pretty good. And there are several more uses left on the trial period.

Mike :)

P.S.

I wasn't boot legging DVDs I had coppied some home movies to DVD and wanted to distribute them to family.

DVD Shrink (http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html)

According to my sources (two cows and a llama) this is the best DVD freeware out there. I am not advocating using it to rip anything, but I have been told that there is no encoding yet created that can stop it.

Poke

DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter are the best packages for ripping/copying/etc... better than commercial packages, and free is a great price.

lots of info and tools here: http://www.dvdrhelp.com

Thanks guys I'll pass these on, but I know John would want me to express his gratitude for your help now. :yes:

Another vote for DVD Shrink. Decrypter is good, but I like shrink's UI and language stripping features - last time I used D it lacked those functions. Shrink also uses a nice re-encoding compression which I believe uses the main concept encoder (a good one), so you can cram a big film onto a single layer dvd and it won't get ugly on you.