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I bought a licensed copy of CloneDVD. It can create images of many different formats like AVI, MPEG4, ISO and some others. What do you think of those formats? I also noticed something called DVDShrink. Is it worth making ISOs of the movies and using DVDShrink? BTW: I agree with your disclaimer. My dvd collection is purchased movies.

Sorry about the title --- I didn't know what the correct subject could be. I would like to get all my dvd movies imaged on my media machine. Unfortunately, I am completely ignorant in this process and would like to see what others have to recommend based on their experience. I would like to do the following: 1) Image my movies to the best format possible that would allow me to convert those files to other formats later while preserving the dvd quality (possibly for portable media devices) 2) Use as little space possible on my hard drive while trying to keep 100% quality on movies 3) Find a really good player for the movies (apparently some players enhance movie quality???) 4) Recommendations on the best tools to help in the process My external hard drive is 1 TB and it's connected by Firewire. I basically would like to rip all my dvds once and put them away without having to reach for them again. Any recommendations on the process would be appreciated. Thank You, WG

Chris, Thanks for pointing out the mameplus application. It works great. I ended up downloading the binary version and tweaked the settings. It has everything that you have listed above except the nag screen on the emulation capabilities. I tried compiling it first, but encountered an error on one of the mame driver files. It may have been because I was using 128u1 for mame plus with the mame 128 sources. Not sure. Thanks, WG

Hello, Does anyone know of way to apply advanced video filters with Mame 0.128? (hq, 2xsai, etc) I checked out AdvanceMame, but it looks like it was last updated in 2006. I've gotten so spoiled with some of the other emulators. Thanks, WG