How to Convert DVD to AVI
By Convert on Dec 16, 2010 with Comments 0
Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc (DVD) is a popular optical disc storage media format, often used to store videos and data. Like compact discs or CDs, DVDs also have some specific size but with more storage capacity than CDs.
DVD-ROM (read only memory) is used to read the DVDs; DVD-R and DVD+R (recordable) is used to record the data only once and can also be used as DVD-ROM; DVD-RW (read/write), DVD+RW and DVD-RAM (random access memory) are all used for reading, recoding and erasing data multiple times.
DVDs are always of high quality and can easily be used on the computers; however the drawbacks with DVDs are also worth mentioning. These are larger files and often have some ambiguous file names. It is for this reason users always look for ways to convert these files into the formats like MPEG or AVI. This will allow them to have reasonable small, portable sized files to which they can assign particular names and also use them for video editing.
It is not tough to convert your DVD files to AVI. You need to have conversion software utilities such as DVDx, Fairuse Wizard, Nero, and avi.Net.
You need to have:
- A Computer with DVD drive and free hard drive space
- A DVD Movie
- DVD to AVI Convertor Software (for instance, avi.Net)
- Windows XP or 2000, Vista – 32 bit (x86) version
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 to be installed on your PC (windows update)
- XVID codec
Steps
- First download the DVD to AVI converter program from the internet. For example, avi.Net is a converting program that not only allows users to convert DVD to AVI but other audio tracks and subtitles to encode in AVI files.
- Install the program on your system and open it.
- Make certain that you have already inserted the DVD into your DVD drive.
- Choose the destination folder to save the converted file.
- Click on ‘Start’ or ‘Convert’ button to start the conversion process.
Tips & Warnings
- For your windows operating system, always use x86 file. Other files like x64 or x52 won’t work.
Always use an appropriate XVID codec version, especially with avi.Net (1.2.1 version). Otherwise you will experience incorrect file sizes.
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