DVD2AVI Ripper enables you to back up your favorite DVD disks in brilliant quality and at high speed. Over the years, you've collected lots of movies, music and documentaries on DVD and may want to preserve them from scratches or loss. DVD2AVI Ripper is perfect for this. You will benefit from the opportunity to rip DVD to AVI, using such compressors as DivX, XviD, MPEG-4 and others. When a DVD is ripped and compressed, the output can be saved onto a blank CD disk or to the hard drive of your computer.DVD2AVI Ripper provides you with an intuitive and unobtrusive interface, which makes DVD ripping downright simple. From one and the same window, you can select a DVD drive, a video track, and specify compression settings. This includes audio and video compression, output file resolution, audio track, and subtitle language. At any time before ripping, you can play a selected DVD in the preview window and preview any scene. The ripping itself is fast, accurate and does not slow down other applications. This is achieved thanks to a well-written backup algorithm that detects the type of your processor and optimizes the performance of DVD2AVI Ripper to it. Available for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. Main features: - Rip DVD to AVI (DivX, XviD, MPEG-4, etc.) - User-defined file resolution, frame rate, bitrate, zoom, subtitle language and audio track - Fast conversion with MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3DNOW optimization and automatic processor detection (Pentium 3, Pentium 4, Athlon) [Oleg, I'm not sure if this is accurate now.] - Free to try, $29.95 to buy - 30 day free trial