Freemake Video Converter : Easy DVD to DVD, DVD to movie file, movie file to DVD etc etc etc tool

I found a fantastic and easy tool for copying copy protected DVDs to movie files for easy viewing on your PC or mobile gizmo. It's Freemake Video Converter. It's so simple to use and it has a number of great features.

* Copy protected DVD to DVD, AVI, Flash, MP4, MP3 (Audio) and others.
* All of the above video formats to each of the other ones.
* The ability to crop and join source video files for rudimentary video editing.
* Free!!

One tip is that when I converted a few DVDs to AVI and MP4 I used the XVid Video codec rather than the default H.264 codec. It was faster to convert the videos and the output video played a lot smoother. My short research indicates that while H.264 is superior in quality to XVid, it takes a whole lot more CPU power to generate and to play. Maybe my PC isn't beefy enough to play it because whenever I used H.264 the picture was quite jerky whereas it's smooth with XVid.