When I first tried to rip a DVD to an AVI ![[WikiPedia]](http://www.mikeyp.com/css/external.gif)
about 5 years ago, I had to write a script that would run nearly a dozen utilities in a sequenced process. It would take so long to complete the process that I would leave the script running overnight, and hope that no errors occured.
DVD ripping software sure has come a long way since then. PalmFocus has an article about ripping movies using software called FairUse. FairUse is a simple wizard-style app that converted a DVD of mine to a small AVI file in about as much time as it took to actually watch the entire movie.
Being able to watch my DVD collection on my Tapwave Zodiac using the TCPMP media player is a really cool experience. Hats off to the developers of FairUse and TCPMP.
