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StaxRip: Open source all-in-one DVD ripping

Yesterday I posted about Elliott Back's How to rip a DVD tutorial and HandBrake Lite, a Mac app for ripping DVDs for your iPod. Apparently this is the week of DVD ripping, 'cause here's another DVD ripping app: StaxRip is a lightweight, open source Windows app for ripping DVDs to several different formats with a minimum of fuss. That includes H.264 and AAC, so this might be the solution for those looking for a Windows equivalent to HandBrake Lite.
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GOD said 9:43PM on 12-29-2005
Anyone know a simple app to make a few MPG files or AVIs into a DVD compatible format? As in I want to burn a DVD using nero and play it on a DVD player.
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AFD said 11:10PM on 12-29-2005
The TMPGEnc products are very streamlined and easy to use for DVD encoding and authoring. TMPGEnc Plus (or XPress) does the encoding to MPEG-2 and TMPEnc DVD Author allows for simple menu creation and turns the .mp2 and audio stream into a .vob file with folders, ready for burning.
http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/guide.html
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Eyedropp3r said 11:39PM on 12-29-2005
I've used Nero Vision Express to do that a couple times.
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