Did your friends have a plan to deliver their DVDs (Homemade or commercial) to you from far away? Did they just pack them up and throw into mail box? That must be a lengthy waiting! Some smarter people will backup their DVD to ISO image, and then transfer digital copy through internet. It will save you lots of time.

Some torrent sites also provide ISO downloading service. However, if you want to playback ISO image file directly on your Windows PC, you have to install at lease one or two programs that are either capable of reading ISO or mounting ISO. At this moment, you can rip and convert your ISO image to AVI (Xvid/Divx) format so as to playback and edit the movie on computer. And the output AVI video is also playable on some modes of standalone DVD players, such as Samsung DVD-C350.

When will you need AVI video rather than ISO?

We cannot say the advantages or disadvantages over ISO and AVI, but we just want to say when you will need AVI video or ISO image. First of all, if you want to playback ISO image, you have to use particular media player like VLC or DAPlayer. As for AVI video (one format that was regarded as best video container for backup DVD content), it is more difficult to find one player does not support this format. You can even play and watch AVI video on some mobile or console devices, like Windows 7 phones, Nokia N8, PS3, Xbox 360, etc.

Secondly, AVI video is also editable on majority of video processing programs. For most of PC users, AVI is much more popular than ISO image file.

How to Convert and Rip ISO to AVI?

BDlot DVD Ripper is a tool made for ripping DVD / ISO image file to AVI and other popular video formats, mobile devices. After free download and install it, you can see its main interface as below:

Step 1: Load your source file by clicking ISO Image button.

Step 2: Choose to AVI as output file format.

Step 3: Set the destination of output AVI file.

Step 4: Start to Convert ISO to AVI video.