XviD

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An open source MPEG-4 video codec project which was launched in 2001 to continue Project Mayo's open source DivX codec.

Basically a short piece of history is required in here to understand this fully.

Original DivX ;-) codec was not developed from the scratch, but was just a hacked version of Microsoft's WMV video codec. This version, best known as DivX ;-) v3.11 alpha (which was the last official version of the hacked codec), quickly became ridiculously popular among videofreaks all over the world.

After its success, group of people, most notably the hacker behind the DivX ;-) codec, started developing a legal version of the codec which would be a real codec instead of basic hack of existing Microsoft codec.

They launched an open source project, dubbed as Project Mayo (also known as OpenDivX) to develop this codec. After a while the codec matured, but the original developers wanted to push it further and started a company called DivXNetworks which started developing its own closed source version, based on the work of the Project Mayo. Eventually this closed source codec was released as DivX 4 (since then, we've seen this closed source version to develop further and currently, 09/2005, the latest version of the codec is called DivX 6.0).

Now, open source guys didn't want to abandon the work of the Project Mayo and they continued to develop the codec further and the XviD was born.

XviD, like many other MPEG-4 formats, can be played with certain MPEG-4 compatible, stand-alone DVD/DivX/XviD players.

How to Convert DVD to XviD?

Believing it or not, best movie resources are still from your DVD collections. Besides watching movies on TV with DVD player, sometimes you may also want to enjoy the films with iPod, iPad, PSP, or PC players; sometimes you may want to back up a special disc; sometimes you want to upload DVD disc content to YouTube but just find only FLV files are accepted...At this moment, you do need to rip DVD to video in common formats. On the other hand, DVD discs takes some space while converting DVD to videos to store the movies on PC will save your space. Needless to say, backing up DVD disc and making DVD copy are necessary to ensure never losing those important data.

The following guide will tell you exactly how to rip and convert DVD movies to video in desired format, like ripping DVD to XviD/AVI/MP4, step by step.

First, it is necessary to install the software: DVD Converter;
Secondly, you should have a DVD disc in your driver or DVD folder in your PC;
Last, make sure your PC has enough free space in a hard disk for saving temporary files.

Step 1: Add DVD Movie to DVD Converter

Launch DVD Converter. Click button “Open DVD” to open a DVD disc (DVD-5 or DVD-9) in your driver or a DVD folder (containing VOB files) in your PC.

Step 2: Specify DVD to Video/Audio Conversion

After DVD titles are all listed in the program, you may go to General Settings or Advanced Settings panel to specify your conversion. Click the drop down arrow under "Target profile" and select a profile from the list. It lists kinds of DVD to video/audio conversion pre-sets, which are specified different dimension, bit rate, codec, file size and so on.

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Step 3: Rip DVD

Click button "Rip DVD" on the top of the tool bar to start DVD to video/audio conversion.

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