What is the Best DVD Encoder According to These Posts

I Have read many of the posts here and I was wondering, overall, which DVD ripping program I should use. I used DVD Ripper and that worker fine, except that it saved my DVD into 4 parts rather than one big one. Is there a better free program?
Also,I used iPod Converter (Videora) and that worker well too. Is there a better setting for more accurate proportions? On my iPod the people in my movie are too thin.
Thanks

Dante,
The reason the people in your movie "are too thin" is because when you encoded the file to use on your iPod, you were taking a 16:9 movie (or widescreen if you want to call it that) and converting it into a 4:3 movie (also known as full screen).
If you were using the default Videora settings, you probably had your screen size as 320x240. This is why the figures in the movie have been made to look thin. You took what was once a long rectangle and squeezed it into a much shorter rectangle. I suggest you change your settings (because this is what I did and get images that you were proportioned) in Videora to 320x176. This will give you a "widescreen" image when the file is transcoded. Just make sure that you are only using that for widescreen movies. If you take a fullscreen movie (such as an older television show or 80% of broadcast television today) and try to change it to 320x176, the figures will look short and fat.
Hope that helps. Took me a little while to figure out what settings to use, but I eventually got it to work just fine.

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