DVD Copy 4 rips DVDs for mobile devices

InterVideo’s latest DVD Copy 4 software will let consumers convert videos for high-quality playback on the most popular portable devices such as the Sony PSP, iPod, Memory Sticks and mobile phones.

“Personal video players are the next step in the evolution of portable entertainment,” said Steve Ro, CEO and President of InterVideo.

“But people are discovering that they can’t play most of the downloaded video clips and home videos they’ve accumulated over the years without converting them. With the latest version of DVD Copy, we’ve made the conversion process so simple, even a novice can do it. And by combining conversion and copying capabilities in a single solution, we’re giving consumers a growth path to the future. They can use the software now to make identical duplicates of their personal videos in just three steps. Then, when they purchase one of the new portable video players, they can use the same software to convert their videos to the format required by their device.”

InterVideo DVD Copy 4 offers fast and easy conversion process of movie files on to a users hard drive from a DVD formatted disc. Various compression options are available, such as the new iPod’s native format, or the 3GPP/3GP2 format for mobile handsets. It supports the Sony PSP Video Format MPEG4.

A three-step copying process lets users simply select the source, the drive destination and the video output format. Movies can be ripped from your DVD to; DVD Image, Video CD, Super Video CD, WMV, DivX Avi, 3GPP or 3GPP2, MP3, MP4 (PSP) or WMA file. With the Autofit feature, the software can automatically determine how much compression is needed to produce the best-looking results for the output selected.

DVD Copy 4 is now available direct from InterVideo, the platinum version sells for $79.95.