Hi everyone,

Now that the 750GB disks are out and cheap, I'd like to rip all my DVDs onto a video server.

Can you guys recommend ripping and compression software to do this? I have DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter, but I'm not certain this is the best approach. The whole video codec and container thing is completely bewildering to me. Which combination gives good quality (in case an HDTV monitor is in the future), portability and reasonable disk usage? XviD seems like a popular choice, but I know nothing about this. Comments?

Thanks in advance. I'm just starting to learn about this so if anyone wants to give me any pointers to resources or heads up on gotchas I'm not asking about, that would be great.

Jim