Hi,minion said:If It is takeing you hours to Rip and movie and more hopurs to encode a movie then you are either doing it wrong or you have an extremely slow system..My system takes 15 minutes to Rip a DVD with Smatripper and about 2 hours to encode a 2 hour movie to SVCD...so 2.5 hours isn"t very long you could barely watch the movie in that time....Check out the Tut"s as mentioned Above and I"m sure you will find a Faster method...