Convert DVD Movies to Portable WMV Files

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After spending a month with a Portable Media Center, I'm addicted to the idea of taking video with me everywhere. While the PMC devices are optimal for this purpose, Pocket PC users can also benefit from portable video by dumping large video files to SD or Compact Flash cards. For about $100 a Compact Flash card will hold the equivalent of three Hollywood features and of course PMC devices will hold a ton more. There's no perfect 1-click solution for converting DVD content to a portable WMV file. DVD2PocketPC makes a valiant effort, but by compressing movies down to fit on a 128MB card, makes them almost unwatchable. Instead, I came up with a virtually foolproof do-it-yourself solution to convert the VOB movie files created when a DVD is ripped to Pocket PC and Portable Media Center friendly WMV files.