What is the best program to rip dvd's and place them in a flash format (youtube) style on the web?

I have a collection of dvd's that I want to publish all a little over an hour long. What size should they be for easy downloading/streaming?

try converting it to mp4...its smaller in size

Originally Posted by wchua24

try converting it to mp4...its smaller in size

any good programs on mac that do this?

i could ask break the flv file in half i suppose... mp4 everyone has to have quicktime.

ImTOO DVD Ripper Platinum is a great program that can easily rip dvd into any format you wish. DVD to ANY FORMAT.

I'm not 100% sure but I think it is compatible with mac.

Another one is HandBrake. That is compatible with mac but I have no experience of it. But it is freeware whereas ImTOO is licensed.

One last one is probably one of the easiest to use, considering it is free. DVDShrink is a freeware program for Windows (if you can get to a Windows machine) which is easy to use and does a great job. As well as ripping DVDs, it can shrink them to a smaller size, which would be ideal for streaming.

Overall, I'd recommend you get ImTOO DVD Ripper Platinum 4 as it is the best as the easiest I have used. It will do a great job of shrinking your huge DVDs into smaller files. FLVs are usually the smallest file size I have seen.

Oh, I just remebered, Cyberlink PowerDirector 5 is a video editing program and is fantastic but you can actually save the result file (you don't HAVE to edit it) into a streaming format. That does it easily and you don't have to think about specific formats. It can also publish a file straight to YouTube.

Hope this helped out, happy to answer any questions.

ImTOO works great...
then taking to flash with the flash player comonent.

is 207mb too big to put over the internet? progressive download file?

Try mplayer, and it's conterpart, mencoder.
I use it for years, and it often suceed where several other fails.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

not looking for a player... have that taken care of with flash.

is 110mb to large to have as a progressive download for a video?
I know on google, they let you upload up to 100 mb, so it cant be too bad.

mplayer contains mencoder, which is what I was recommending you.
And a dvd in 110 Mb !?

Man, a DVD is 4Gb compressed (at least, it can go up to 9Gb), it would be a seiously reduced quality to fit it in 110 Mb.
For something decent, don't go under 900Mb.

Are you sure Tripy?
I will try them

Are you asking us how to do something illegal?