Free DVD and video software

This week I was in the unfortunate position that I had one original DVD that would work in our Portal DVD player since the stupid player a TEAC does not have an enter button on the player.

After much investigation and trying Handbrake and DVD ripper and all that sort of rubbish I found this link:

DVD to AVI/DivX/XviD - VideoHelp.com Downloads

I will be updating this post with the name of the product I decided to use in the end. With AVI I can store movies on a memory stick or USB stick and the kids will be entertained for hours, without the interference of a Remote.

Update

in the meantime I have contacted both Disney and NuMetro, still no response from NuMetro, but Disney told me that for fast play to work the DVD has to have its default language set to English.

I have also found a better link:
http://www.easyfreeware.com/freeware/dvd_to_avi.html

And the one product Mediaprosoft free dvd to avi mpeg seems quite good you can rip to different media formats and even devices.

As I write this, it is the first free product to have made any progress with the snow white DVD.

Promotion of piracy

Spoke to a couple of mates about this problem and they say just google the movie and download it, there are hundreds of sites, shows you what copy protection and stupid user enforced menus are doing to the video industry.