Handbrake AVI - How to Rip DVD to AVI for Free Using Handbrake

AVI, short for Audio Video Interleave, introduced by Microsoft, is one of the most popular video formats in the world. DVD is maybe the most popular storage media. If you have lots of DVDs, you may want to rip DVD to video formats so that you can play the DVD movies on more platforms, like Zune, Archos, PSP, etc. instead of only being limited to DVD players and computer.

And when ripping DVDs, many people, especially Windows users, are thinking of converting DVD to AVI since AVI is a raw format with excellent quality and is highly compatible with Windows Media Player.

On the Internet, many people are asking how to rip DVD to Handbrake with AVI. Well, it's very easy. But you need to download the older version of Handbrake like 0.9.2. For 0.9.3 or above, AVI container and codec are dropped.

How to rip DVD to AVI with Handbrake 0.9.2

Launch Handbrake 0.9.2 and insert the DVD you want to rip to AVI to your computer drive. Note that Handbrake cannot deal with encrypted DVDs, if you want to rip copy protected DVDs to AVI using Handbrake, please turn to other DVD Ripper.

1. On "Source", click "Browse" to select the DVD movie you want to rip to DVD and click "OK" to add the movie to Handbrake.

2. On "Destination", click on the "Browse" button and choose the name and output folder to save the AVI file. Click "OK" when you are done.

3. On "Output Settings" – Encoder, choose Xvid as the output video encoder.

Handbrake AVI tips

1. For Handbrake 0.9.5, AVI output format is no longer available. MKV and MP4 are the supported output formats. You can set the video encoder as MPEG4(FFmpeg) and change the output file extension to .avi. You may get AVI videos in this way. But the AVI video files are of very low quality.

2. Handbrake cannot rip protected DVD. If you want to rip commercial DVD movies with Handbrake, you need to remove the DVD copy protection first with a third-party software like Aimersoft DVD Copy. Or you can turn to other DVD ripping software that can convert encrypted DVDs.

Handbrake alternative to rip DVD to AVI

Handbrake is free, but with lots of disadvantages. For example, you cannot edit and preview the videos before ripping, the output formats are very limited and the ripping speed is really slow. If you want to rip DVD to WMV, MOV, FLV, etc, you can turn to Handbrake alternative - Aimersoft DVD Ripper. It lets you rip DVD to any video and audio format quickly, easily and with excellent quality. All popular video/audio formats and devices are well supported, such as MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV, M4V, MKV, MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, iPad, iPod, iPhone, Zune, Creative Zen, Archos, Xbox 360, Apple TV, etc. Besides, the built-in editor allows you to edit the DVD videos by trimming, cropping, rotating, adjusting video effect, etc. All the editing can be real-time previewed to ensure the overall video effects. The equivalent Mac version is Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac.

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