what programs do you use to rip/compress digital video?

[tango]

I'm ripping video off my digital video camera, but there are so many different formats and codecs that I don't know which one to use. for example when I rip some video in Pinnacle studio, pinnacle will play it perfectly but BSPlayer doesn't. what programs do you all use?

[Chilling_Silently]

I use mencoder, but thats a Linux app, so probably not much use.

Try ripping as mpeg1 for un-compressed, or use DivX or XviD 4/5 for higher compression :-)

Hope this helps


Chill.

[metla]

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/

Read the guides.

[flying_green_leprachaun]

Doom9 (http://www.doom9.org/) is another good site. A little biased towards XviD, but thats ok. Heaps of info

[PoWa]

VirtualDub

[ugh1]

If you wont the greatest chance of playback on other computers then encoding with MPEG1 with mpeg sound.

If your cam-corder has a WDM / MCI / TWAIN driver I would recomend media player classic as it has a VERY simple record interface, but still enough "tweak" options..