While DVDs are high quality and you can rip them to your PC, they do have drawbacks, such as large file sizes and obscure file-naming. By ripping a DVD to AVI or MPEG file, you benefit from small and portable file sizes, your own file naming. Also, the files can be used for video editing.
If you're looking for ways to convert DVD to AVI format, chances are you want to copy DVD to computer and play it on your device like Blackberry, Nokia, etc. But before we move on to cover how to convert and rip DVD to AVI format? Let's go over the AVI definition.
AVI, Audio Video Interleave, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. Like the DVD video format, AVI files support multiple streaming audio and video.
The DVD to AVI Ripper, Aimersoft DVD Ripper can rip DVD to AVI video, it also can rip DVD to all the other video and audio formats including MPEG, MPG, MKV, MP4, WMV, MOV, FLV, M4V, MP3, MKA, AIFF, WMA, M4A, AC3, AAC, WAV, OGG, etc. Here is a step-by-step guide to rip DVD to AVI.