Avi converter

Hello all....

I have just got my first mac and am loving it if I'm honest, but one thing, just before my old PC died I had converted all my DVDs to my external hard-drive, they were all ripped using a bit of ripping software that put them onto the hard-drive as DVD files (they were not compressed at all so sit in the drive as audio and video files)

I now wish to compress them all down to AVI files so I can easily stream them to my front room PS3 and also put them onto my iPad and other devices and so they take up a lot less space (currently there is over 1.25 TB of media!!

Thanks in advance for your help everyone

New-mac-user

I'm pretty sure Handbrake will do dvd to avi, and it supports mac. http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php