Hey all. I have several seasons of DVDs that I would like to rip, store, and stream to my PS3/360/HTPC/etc. I am sick of swapping DVDs all over. So the question (which I know I will get 10,000 different answers for)... What is the best format to convert these to, while maintaining VERY VERY GOOD QUALITY (important to me)? I rip my movies to VIDEO_TS folders, but for TV shows I can stand to save some space by using a non-pure format (two episodes of Hercules = 1 full movie, and I don't have THAT many terrabytes). If it matters, I use DVDFab. Thanks in advance, everyone. Chebwa

"VERY VERY GOOD QUALITY (important to me)?" If you want very,very good quality, you probably need to stick with direct copies. I (and most other people) like to use DIVX or XVID. They give you pretty fair quality with a very significant decrease in file size. Of course they are 'non-pure', so I guess they fail your criteria. :-) FWIW to XP users: When you click on the 'Command Prompt' you are just causing the 'Command prompt' to be displayed. This prompt gives you access to NTVDM.EXE, the 'NT Virtual DOS Manager'.

I know some nice DVD rippers for Mac: 1. Handbrake. This is a free tool for ripping dvd and convert it to other formats includes iPod MP4 format. 2. MacTheRipper. This one is also a free and professional software to rip DVD for Mac. 3. iMedia Converter for Mac. This one is the most powerful. It converts both DVD and videos to iPod touch/ iPod Nano/ iPod Classic, PSP, MP4 player, Zune.....all the other players. But not free.

I personally use Cucusoft Ultimate DVD Converter. It can converts DVDs to play on almost any portable device including iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, video capable MP3 players, video capable mobile phones, Pocket P.C., and so on. Meanwhile, it can also support output almost any audio/video format including Video format(H264, MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, RM, 3GP, flv, SWF, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, VideoCD, SuperVideoCD, DVD, etc)

hi old favs dvd ripper of choice dvd decrypter, & dvd shrink removing rubbish extras, for other formats as mentioned cucusoft works great for ipods etc