After months of fooling around with various open source apps I've now found the perfect solution for going from DVD to my Axim:

http://www.dvdxsoftware.com/

I was able to select the track, save it, then encode it for my VGA device. They even have a version that can encode to my smartphone

When you try and open an encrypted DVD it tells you it can't do that. And then tells you how you CAN do it, with a free package

Looks good. I like the free FairUse way myself. Thanks for the heads up.

Adam

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What a curious coincidence, DVDXSoftware sounds very similar to DVDx - a free DVD backup package that's been around for several years.

EDIT: It was not my intention to imply that there was any funny business going on I was merely pointing out the coincidental naming. For the record there was also a commercial package called DVDXCopy by 321 Studios.

Thanks for the heads up. Did you experience any audio/video syncing problems. That's my main peeve about conversions (encoding).

Encoding was absolutely perfect, I ripped some Family Guy content and it was absolutely great.

It's not free though

I am curious as to what the size was for your F.G. files...

-Brad

No need to pay for this app from that website. (What a ripoff!) It's free:
Sourceforge

Anyone tried ratDVD?

Supposedly includes all the Extras together with the movie in one file, but I think it uses a proprietary format so may not playback on the Ax.

So many programs, not enough ROM

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I am sure that dvdx (pay version) and dvdx (free are NOT the same)
I heard what alot of companies do these days are stealing free souce code, changing the GUI and selling it for huge amounts of money.

I think I'll stick to ripping with dvd dycryptor and compressing with vdub.

   

I used to use DVDx (the free one) all the time, but then found that I was getting better quality for my archival purposes using a manual setup of several programs.

However, for PPC encoding, it's working excellently. Put the disc in, run it, and you're good to go.