My new laptop doesn\'t have optical disk reader anymore. So I need to save my DV

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My new laptop doesn't have optical disk reader anymore. So I need to save my DVD on a more readable format for my different devices (HDD MediaCenter, iPad, computer, ...). Iso files are enormous and I just would like to get 700Mo video files.

For the moment I've saved a dozen of my DVD on ISO disk image format. What tool can I easily used to perform the last conversion to a common video format (like avi)?

Must to have :

Runs on Windows or Linux (or web-app but it would surprise me...)
Gratis
Ability of queuing file conversions (batch mode)
Ability to choose the language track to export
Common video format output (avi prefered)

Other informations :

No GUI requirement but nice to have
My DVD can have many channels but I just need stereo support (and only one language sound-track)
Optional subtitle support
No specific quality or size is required for output, if output file is too heavy I can correct it with another software. Of course if many software fits my needs, quality will become a criterion to choose the soft.

Explanation / Answer

Except for two caveats (price and ISO see below) DVDFab will work great for that.

The only functionality caveat: There is a chance it won't natively open ISO files (i.e. I can't remember) - in which case you would have to extract it to a dvd-video folder or mount it using for example PowerISO (Free unlimited time, limited functionality but enough for this trial available) (any other disk image mounting software would work just as well).

To run down on the must haves:

Runs on Windows or Linux: Windows
Gratis: Unfortunately not: free 30day unlimited functionality trial though and $45 after
Ability of queuing file conversions (batch mode): Yes it has batch mode, I haven't used the batch mode so I can't speak to its ease of use; although all its other features are easy to use.
Ability to choose the language track to export: I'm pretty confident that it does allow that but it has been a while since I used it.
Common video format output (avi preferred): It will export to more formats than any one person should ever need

And your extra details:

No GUI requirement but nice to have: Has a full-feature GUI.
Optional subtitle support: Yes it supports subs
No quality or size output requirement, if the file is to heavy I can correct it with an other software. Of course if many software fits my needs, quality will become a criterion to choose the soft.: It has various options for quality/size so you can to some degree make an intelligent choice of the trade-off - not as much as say AVIdemux but that is what AVIDemux is designed to do so not really comparable.

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