madbunny wrote:puremoonlite wrote:a stupid question maybe, but am I going to damage my dvds by ripping them?I wish I could just use a video streamer.
No, 'ripping' your dvd is just reading it and saving the information to the hard drive. Just like you would read a data cd, or floppy disk and copy it to your hard drive. In the same way that 'burning' a disk doesn't mean that you take a flame to it, but are writing information.
By reading the data directly off of the disk you are getting a 1:1 copy (pretty much) of that information. That's the major argument that media companies use against it. (among others) Perfect copies. Streaming, or recording as it plays also works, but takes 100% as long as whatever you're copying. Unlike 'ripping' which takes various amounts (like... 4x the speed) of time.
try these site:
http://www.videohelp.com/
www.doom9.net
they have lots of information.
Okay.... the .avis are working, I think. The problem is that even since I loading the codec, my windows seem to crash every few minutes depending where I am. Any ideas? Did I fuck up?

