DVDRip

Today, with the high apeed access of Internet, the strong power of PC, We can enjoy various films in our personal computer, like in cinema before. All we need is a pc connected to Internet.
The dvdrip which mostly converted from DVD, and compressed with MPEG4 is the best choice for us. and it's the focus of this article too.
1) Where to get?
The answer is Internet, the best approach is use some P2P software like Kala, Morphues etc. I strongly recommend eMule, a very nice eDonkey(a famous P2P software) client software, high speed, more resource, easy to use, no ads and is published under GNU, which means it's very open and developed quickly! The newest eMule version is 0.27, you can download it from sourceforge. even it's source code if you like.
After install eMule, you need to connect to eDonkey world by click the connect button at the top-left of the eMule main windows. Then you can search anything in eDonkey world, of cource include dvdrip too. In the search result window, you can download anything you want. That's all.

2) How to play?
Usualy you can play the dvdrip by Microsoft media player, I recommed media player 6.4 (normaly in "c:\program file\Windows Media Player\mplayer2.exe") which is more stable and less resource occupation. Most dvdrip downloaded from Internet is divx compressed in avi format. some new dvdrip maybe compressed by xvid(not divx). Divx and xvid are both advanced video codec of MPEG4, so you must install codec software to support media player, In audio, There are also some codec like ac3, mp3 need be installed. In my experiense, Nimo codec pack is good choice which contains almost all codec you need. But unfortunately some codecs are NOT compatible each other. So you must manual install codecs you need from Nimo codec pack, as I know, if you select "Divx5 direct show" codec, you will get a install error message. But it's no bader impact.

3) Subtitles?
Vobsub which contained in Nimo codec pack is a subtitle plugin for media player, so if you view dvdrip NOT in your natural language, you need install this software . Download subtitle file from Internet(There are some website contains thousands of subtitles). Decompres and save the subtitle file to the direcotory which contains the dvdrip file, and rename the subtitle file to the dvdrip filename(not include the extname). This is very important. After do that, use
media player to open the dvdrip file, you will see the subtitle you want.

4) Other tools?
Some little tool like GSpot, Divfix, AviPreview is must have, GSpot can view an avi file's internal structure include which video and audio codec is used. When you can not play a dvdrip file, you will find GSpot is very useful to help you find the answer.
Divfix(like rmfix) can fix some bad divx file which is also useful when you can not download a dvdrip fully.
AviPreview can extract partial frames from incomplete avi file to new avi file, very useful when you downloading a large avi file and want to preview it before complete the downloading.

FAQ:
1) No sound/ No picture/No sub?
Install Nimo, If that no use, Open the rip file with GSpot, see which part of the file can not be rendered.

2)Sub only dispaly few seconds
If you use ffdShow to decode divx file, maybe get this result. Deselect all divx format(3,4,5)in ffdshow setting dialog. Use Divx 5 to decode the divx file. That will ok.

3) CPU too Slow to play the movie?
You can use BSPlayer - a very fast divx player in the world,
in my computer - Celeon 433 -, BSPlayer can play most divx movie smoothly even with ac3 audio.

4)Audio is ok, but video is full of green mask?
It's because of some old version codec's bug like ffdshow or divx. you should download the newest codec.