Does anyone know of a Windows-based converter/tool that will allow me to take unencrypted, user-created DVD video (currently on the DVD itself) and convert that into an .AVI file?
My client has home movie footage of her daughter singing and wants to put it onto a Web page, so it needs to be converted and scaled.
I have Pinnacle Studio 11 Ultimate, but it won't read the DVD video. If I can convert the file, Pinnacle will scale it and prepare it for Web use.
Thanks!

Steve
(By the way, I have no idea what "Pinnacle Mobile Media Converter" is, and there's nothing on Pinnacle's Web site, so I figured I might as well post my question here. If there's a better place for it, please let me know.)

Piece of cake!

Get Shrink (free). It will open the DVD and you can save the files as TS files.

Get Mpeg Streamclip (free). It will open those files and give you many choices of formats to convert the footage to.

To use Streamclip you'll need the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback component, which costs $20. But considering that Shrink and Streamclip are worth their weight in gold, but are free, you'll no doubt find that you don't mind the 20 bucks.

Kurt.