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I apologize in advance if I have missed any guides or threads that directly answer this question. My son recently got a sony(?) LYRA from his grandparents. The only video file extension it supports is AVI. We have approx 200 DVDs that we own and he would like to have some of them to play on the LYRA, for trips etc. My question is what is the simplest way to convert a DVD to a playable AVI format? I say "simplest" because he, my son, will have to perform the conversion and lets just say that his computer expertise ends with how to use AIM.
I thought from one of the guides generously posted on this site that I had a two step method to accomplish this but I failed. I used SmartRipper 2.41 to rip a DVD and then tried to use DVD2AVI to convert it. I did the conversion while I was at work. When I got home last evening I surely had an AVI file for the movie that I was trying to convert, with no audio track at all. I tried to play it, video was fine, no sound. I thought that maybe I didn't have the proper codec for it and ran it through Gspot, and it did not have any audio track.
If I made a mistake in my settings that anyone would know of I would appreciate the proper info. The version of DVD2AVI that I was able to find is 1.77.4. All the guides that I have found through Google don't refer to the version of this program that they are using and it seems that all of the screenshots that are shown in those guides have different dropdown menus than my version. If anyone could point me to a link or a different software title that would make this process easier that would be great. Quality is not the issue, just the simplest method possible(and would be even better if it involved freeware). Thanks to any that reply.
EDIT: I just checked the Codec info for the LYRA and it supports MPEG4-SP, nothing noted about the audio track codec other than for pure audio files of which it lists only MP3 and WMA.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 19. May 2005 @ 09:33
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