DVD to mp4?

[Timo]

Hey guys i've got to DVDs with some school videos on them that are in the normal format for playing on a dvd player. I need to merge these by any means so they can be dumped onto the one DVD (combined the videos are less than 2GB), along with a bunch of photos so they can be copied around 100 times and distro'd out to parents to watch on their home computers. Anyone have any ideas on how I could go about this? I figured there must be away to convert them to avi or mp4 so they can be put onto the one disc, but googling for it has turned up nothing - probably because 99% of people would be converting DVDs that they're not supposed to ;)

[klange]

There are a number of free, legal DVD rippers out there (as in, burn them to a disk and then go backwards). On Linux, I use an app called dvd::rip (It's written in perl, that's where the name comes from...).

Though, wow... I can't find any for Windows... that's odd...

[Saggy]

You can try using a program called ConvertXtoDVD (google it for a trial). Just pop the DVD into your DVD drive, open up the program, select Actions>Convert and navigate to the Video_TS.IFO file on the DVD. It should convert to .AVI if I'm not mistaking.

E: Some guides to converting DVD to AVI: http://www.videohelp.com/guides?formatconversionselect=DVD+to+AVI&search2=Search+
Some tools to converting DVD to AVI: http://www.videohelp.com/tools?convert=DVD+to+AVI&search2=Search+

Remember, you can always change where it says AVI in the URL's to MP4 if you prefer.

[JunkfoodMan]

Google Videora iPod Converter. It gives you a link to a DVD decrypter which can extract certain video files with a lot of options.
Then you convert it to mp4 using the Videora converter, with a wide range of settings (Height and width of video, bitrate, etc.).

[Timo]

Thanks for the help guys! I found a great tutorial from one of Saggy's links and it's all set.