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Introduction

You have a portable video player and would like to watch your favorite movies using it? Or you have to create a DVD for your home DVD player? Or you would like to rip a home video DVD to some other formats and save it on your PC? AVS Video Converter enables you to solve these problems quite easily with a few mouse clicks.

Step 1: install AVS Video Converter

Click here to download it. run the AVSVideoConverter.exe file and follow the installation wizard instructions.

Step 2: Run AVS Video Converter and select your input video file

To select a video you would like to convert hit the Browse... button next to the Input File Name field. In the opened Windows Explorer Window browse for the necessary DVD folder:

Note: when your input is a DVD Disc, you will need to select the path to your source file: X:\Video_TS\Video_TS.IFO. "X" stands for your DVD-ROM or the hard disk drive folder where your DVD is stored:

It is usually safe to select the IFO file, rather than VOB file, because the IFO file contains the information about the entire DVD structure and this way you will avoid audio and video de-synch problems when converting. Also, most DVDs have several VOB files (files with actual video) and if you convert VOBs instead of IFO, you will have to merge them afterwards, which is not the case with the IFO files.

After you have selected the VIDEO_TS.IFO file click the Advanced >> button. Normally the program will select the longest DVD title that usually corresponds to the main movie on the disc. You can check that clicking the drop-down arrow near the Video -> Track box:

If you prefer to convert files that are located on your hard disk drive, please make sure that you copy not only VOB files, but IFO files as well.

Step 3: Set up the conversion parameters

After you have selected the video input file, click one of the following buttons placed along the top of the interface:

- To AVI for creating video for PC, Archos, Creative Zen Vision, and YouTube, MySpace and Google Video services;
- To DVD for burning a DVD or saving video in DVD format on the PC;
- To MP4 for Apple iPod, Sony PSP, Epson P-2000/4000 or mobile phones with MPEG-4 video support;
- To MPEG for saving video in MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 format on the PC; ;
- To WMV for Pocket PCs running under Mobile Windows OS, like HP iPaq and portable players: Archos and Creative Zen Vision;
- To Flash for converting video in FLV or SWF formats for putting it on the website;
- To MOV for Quick Time player;
- To 3GP for mobile phones with 3GPP and 3GP2 video support;
- To RM for Real Media player;

In the list of Profiles (... Profile) select one of the preset profiles.
You can also click Edit Profile button to manually set the profile parameters.

Step 4: Set up a proper video output file path

Click the Browse... button next to the Output File Name field and select a location on your HDD for the output video file.

Note: when you select a location for your output video file, you should save the file to your personal computer HDD.

Step 5: Convert your DVD files

After you have set up all the conversion parameters, hit the Convert Now! button to start converting.

You can visually judge the DVD conversion process if you hit the Advanced>> button.