Hi! I have a toshiba satellite laptop (got it summer 2000). It is a pentium III, 192 MB ram.
Anyways, I was thinking of copying a few DVD's to my hard disk (maybe a better term would be DVD ripping). I want to save them in the DivX or Xvid format... Anyways, I have a few questions: What is the best software to do the job for me? Also, I was told that it would probably take up to 9 hours to rip one DVD. Is that harmful for my computer? I mean, would keeping the computer 'working hard' for that long harm it in any way? If yes, how? (keep in mind that I am planning to copy several DVD's, but of course, not consecutively). Also, I want to mention that I have a fan running under my laptop, so that lowers the mother board and CPU temp. (I didn't have a heating problem or anything, but I just thought, the cooler the better!)

Any info on the subject would be much appreciated

A friend of mine tried Clone DVD and it works great. Its has a decrypter that will get you past any copyrights on the DVD. It'll burn the movie onto your hard drive first and then you can burn it to your DVD+/-RW drive. If you go to the website (www.clonedvd.net) I believe there is a free trial version of it. It should take about 20 (slightly more or less) minutes to download to the hard drive and close to an hour to burn to a blank DVD+RW disc. Of course you'll need the proper hardware. Good luck

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