Convert DVD video to MPEG or similar

What is a free and reputable way to convert DVD to web-friendly formats?

[jetnovo]

Hi there

I'm doing a pro-bono website for a local school who have had a DVD made about their college. I don't have any video editing tools on my Win XP computer except for Windows Movie Maker, but I need to convert the DVD into MPEG or WMV or Quicktime or some other format so that people can download it off the site.

Can anyone recommend a free and reputable way to do this?

Presently the only potentially helpful software I have is InterVideo WinDVD, Windows Movie Maker 2.0 and Windows Media Player (although my version is not DVD-enabled).

[bcolflesh]

[tmpgenc.net...]

[stef25]

ulead videostudio, you can get a fully functioning trial from their site

im not sure if it can do dvd - wmv, but it can handle alot of formats. the other day i used it to capture vhs and encode to wmv

doom9.org has all the guides and free software to encode the dvd to something that videostudio can handle

[vrtlw]

Over at Macromedia, they offer a trial of Flash, probably the best compression you would get for streaming video and no back end support required.

[Under influence]

From going from dvd to mpeg i recommend using tmpge (guides @ www.dvdrhelp.com) but for live streaming mpeg might be too big, you could as suggested import it into flash but that won't make much difference, try a smaller format like quicktime files.