How do you encode a DVD to a DivX/XVid file?

[masu]

How do you encode a DVD to a DivX/XVid file?
which program do you use.

Currently I am using DVD Decrypter with AutoGK, but I wan to know if there are better alternatives

[nudone]

i'd look around the tutorials at http://www.videohelp.com/ and http://www.doom9.org/ if using freeware.

[wr975]

AFAIK AutoGK is the best one-click solution.

An alternative would be to use GordianKnot and do everything manually. That's what I use. Robot4Rip for preparing, GordianKnot for encoding. See http://www.doom9.org for guides.

[Josh]

SimpleDivx is a good freeware tool also

[masu]

today I tried out
anyDVD in combination with Nero Recode, which is pretty fast in encoding. The quality is also really good. 

[Deozaan]

I recently learned about this one called MediaCoder.

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/index.htm

MediaCoder is an open source universal audio/video batch transcoder (converter), which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats with many extra features.

Supported Audio/Video/Container Fomats:

- MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AAC+, AAC+V2, MusePack, WMA, RealAudio
- FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, OptimFrog, AAC Lossless, WMA Lossless, WAV
- H.264, Xvid, DivX, MPEG 1/2/4, H.263, Flash Video, 3ivx*, RealVideo*, Windows Media Video*
- AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, RealMedia*, ASF/WMV*, Quicktime*, OGM*
- CD, VCD, DVD, CUE Sheet

* supported as input only