DVD compression

[Jonathan Duncan]

On 23 May 2007, at 12:37, adam fisher wrote:

> So I am looking at building my media server and have tried a few  
> different products. I have loved the clonedvd/anydvd setup for  
> burning to a dvd. Howver, for my media server I was hoping to get  
> it down to about 2 to 2.5 gigs and still maintain good quality. I  
> have gone through all the afterdawn, doom9, and digest stuff and  
> just don't want to have to use 5-6 different programs. Any  
> recommendations on a do it all software that will get the  
> compression that I need. Looking at either divx of xvid most likely.
>

Are you just wanting to rip a DVD and make a smaller movie file out  
of it?  If so and you are on a Mac you can use MacTheRipper for  
copying the DVD to your hard drive and then Handbrake to compress  
them into h.264 movies for QuickTime and AppleTV, iPod, etc.