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I figured I'd watch some movies / tv shows I had on upcoming plane rides, or just while I'm waiting (rehearsals Tuesday nights, and I'm the type of person who's perpetually early). So, I decided to learn how to encode movies onto my PPC.  (This is used to play on the PocketTV free player:

This can be accomplished through the use of three free programs:

1. CladDVD.NET : Clad DVD rips movies to your hard disk (make sure you have 5 gigs free), and best of all, it's now in managed code.

2. DVD2AVI : simple program to convert the VOB files (ripped dvd's) to WAV audio and AVI video files (leave a few gigs free for this step). I used v1.77.3

3. TMPGEnc: does the working part where it converts the avi/wav to an mpg file.  I tend to use about a meg/minute.  Click here for my ppc profile.

(and of course, the mpeg compressor: Microsoft MPEG-4 VKI Codec )

And here's the guide that got me started.  Click here

A 1 gig compact flash card, and I can store about 5 dvd's on it...