I was searching high and low for something to convert my DVD's to my new Windows Portable Media Player (Samsung Yepp YH-999). This meant reading IFO's or VOB's and converting to (ideally) WMV or AVI. Mind you I tried TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress, AVS Video Converter, AutoGK and a couple of other nondescript tools.

Key features I sought.

* Ability to maintain widescreen aspect ratio when scaling down to 320x240. Other tools simply stretched the widescreen to the full height of the small screen.

* Ability to make slight adjustments (crop/zoom) the widescreen image so that it fills the small screen more efficiently (ever seen a 2.35:1 ratio on 320x240? It's small!).

DVDx 2.3 did the trick! The program could use a facelift and there's a few minor bugs, but this is a piece of software well worth supporting. Awesome.