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DVD ripper

I found myself wanting to capture a short segment of a DVD recently. Being a novice at the eLearning stuff, I - guess what - googled using the words "DVD", "clip", "copy" and got a site that allows you to download video copy software for up to 10 minutes of video free (you purchase the longer capture version). The site is http://www.aoamedia.com/dvd_ripper_copymode.htm and the program is called a aoa DVD ripper. Was able to take my DVD and copy a four minute segment and convert it to an *.AVI file that my Windows Media Player can read. Any other freebies out there that can do this.

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Permalink Reply by Jen on December 3, 2007 at 2:11pm: Wonderful discovery! I'm going to share it. I know someone was looking for this last week.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Greg Rehm on December 3, 2007 at 3:08pm: I've used DVD43 to decode DVDs and then used other DVD copying programs to extract the content. Then used other tools to convert the content to formats I can use (like .avi, .mpg, etc). The DVD43 decoder is free, but none of the rest is and none are particularly easy to use.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Falta on December 15, 2007 at 9:34pm: I'm using something called Handbrake (http://handbrake.m0k.org/?article=details). It is opensource, so it doesn't cost anything. It will do an entire DVD. I'm trying to convert it to mp4 and download to a Zune I got myself for Christmas. I'll let you know my results as soon as it finishes (looks like it will take several hours to do an entire dvd).; ▶ Reply to This