Peter044
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Hello,
I'm looking for a utility to convert various forms of video to one and other. In particular, I wanted to rip DVDs to AVIs, burn AVIs to DVD that can be played in a non-computer DVD player and reduce file sizes of some video files removing definition to save space.
I've been evaluating Total Video Converter by Wondershare which talks a good fight, but I can only burn about an hour of video to a whole DVD and the picture is not great and the ripping to AVI is worse. It does everything I want, but poorly.
Can anyone recommend another utility? It would be nice if it were free, but doesn't have to be,
Thanks,
Peter
I'm looking for a utility to convert various forms of video to one and other. In particular, I wanted to rip DVDs to AVIs, burn AVIs to DVD that can be played in a non-computer DVD player and reduce file sizes of some video files removing definition to save space.
I've been evaluating Total Video Converter by Wondershare which talks a good fight, but I can only burn about an hour of video to a whole DVD and the picture is not great and the ripping to AVI is worse. It does everything I want, but poorly.
Can anyone recommend another utility? It would be nice if it were free, but doesn't have to be,
Thanks,
Peter
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Yes, that was helpful. What I am more concerned with is file size. I use the AVIs about 700Mb each for a movie and have a large number of movies stored on my hard drive. I can transfer data to and from DVD with my existing tools, but the DVD format is quite large and I would like to shrink it. I'd be happy to use another format, but AVIs seem to be quite common.
The other thing I'm trying to is burn a disc that can be played in an ordinary DVD player. The player in particular that I'm concerned about belongs to a friend and it has no USB support. Since most of my files are already stored in AVI format, I've already lost the detail - I'm just trying to get something that will play in his player.
Is that a bit more clear?
Peter