There is a great little program called Bitripper (
Convert DVD to Avi and Mpeg using bitRipper ) that rips DVDs to AVI and compresses them down to about 700MB. It works on about 90% of the movies I have used it on. Some of the newer high-tech big-budget movies have incorporated digital encryption that Bitripper can't decode, but those are few and far between. I have ripped dozens of DVD that I own to AVI format using it...saves tons of space on my PC and the Epic reads AVI files just fine. No need to convert to MP4.