How to Rip DVD to Archos 404

Archos 404 Review

The good: The aggressively priced Archos 404 combines a 3.5-inch screen with a supercompact body; it's a video, music (including subscriptions), and photo player with the ability to record line-in audio and video with optional adapters; good voice recorder; improved GUI; excellent video controls and photo playback features.
The bad: The Archos 404 lacks the kickstand and removable battery of its bigger brother, the 604; proprietary USB cable; no recording line-in video or audio out of the box; few bundled accessories; no FM tuner; weak equalizer.
The bottom line: The attractively priced Archos 404 is a PVP in an MP3 player's body. If you want a better screen and a removable battery, spend $50 more for the wider 604.



Archos's 04 series of portable video players has many components, the smallest being the pocket-size 404. This is a full-fledged PVP with all the fixings and a 30GB drive, but this one measures only 4 by 3 by 0.5 inches--that's a stone's throw from Apple iPod country. Plus the iPod doesn't have a 3.5-inch screen. Though the 6.5-ouncer doesn't record audio or video out of the box (you'll need to pony up either for the $100 dock or the $70 adapter), it's still a nice deal at less than $300. Available in early September, the 404 will replace the popular Gmini 402, which is more compact but has a much smaller screen and no ability to record line-in video.

Still, the 404's main attraction is its compactness. It's comfortable in the hand and in most pockets, though it is just a tad too tall to get the ultimate MP3 player grip on it (feels like a tank next to the 5G iPod). The 404's brushed-metal casing is extremely scratch resistant, though the overall design is boxy with sharper corners than, say, the iPod or the Cowon A2. At the same price as the 5G 30GB iPod, the 404 is so much more a video and photo player.

More review information please read here: http://reviews.cnet.com/portable-video-players-pvps/archos-404-30gb/4505-6499_7-32028044.html

Sometimes we watch movies on PC,TV, also someone like to watch video on handhold device, such as Archos 404. As we know, when watch dvd movies on pc, we need a dvd drive and dvd player software, but there is no dvd drive in Archos 404, so we need to rip dvd to video files supported by Archos 404.

How to Rip DVD to Archos 404

CloneDVD 7 Ultimate is a powerful 5-in-1 multimedia tool. It could copy any dvd, rip dvd to all popular video formats and devices, burn all videos to dvd with your own background and music, convert video to video easily, make HD photo slideshow with music.
1.Download and install CloneDVD 7 ultimate(the trial version only could output three minutes video)

2.Click and load DVD, you could select the whole dvd folder, or some chapter folders which you want to be ripped




3.Set ouput format and Video/Audio Codec/Bitrate



4.Clip and edit dvd video files, crop, add subtitles, add watermark



5.Set output folder and Click "start" button to rip DVD to Archos 404

6.After the ripping finished, the output video's folder will appear automatically. Now you could play the ripped dvd video anywhere.