On 15/1/06 10:42, "eleventhvolume" <colin at eleventhvolume.com> wrote: > I have a couple of DVDs that I would like to save onto the hard drive of my > Powerbook to save me having to carry the disks around. I already have a copy > of MacTheRipper which does this. However, 12GB is a large percentage of my > available disk space. Does anyone know of any freeware that will compress > this down to something smaller? I don't mind slightly reduced visual > quality. Any help much appreciated. Once you have ripped it use something like "ExportToQT" may do what you want ... But you need QT Pro to save it out ( http://www.mpeg2works.2ya.com/ )