"EAC" For Video? Quick Video Clips for PC


Can anyone please offer suggestions for "grabbing" a variety of video sources for easy transfer, review, emailing etc in a Windows environment?

In the end, I dont need perfect quality, but would like to do the following:

"grab" favourite scenes from movies to make a hard drive based compilation of my favourite scenes

"grab" analog video from VHS for transfer onto hard drive

"grab" digital video from a Sony DVR device to transfer onto hard drive

I do not have Tivo but have been impressed by the TimeWarner cable hard drive recording device. The quality is more than adequate and it is easy to use.

If I could rip all these files in high quality, and then use a separate utility to compress them for email, that might even be better.

Thank you.
cwlondon
Rwwear

This type of information would be even better without the photos of the cat, but thank you.

And is there anything on VHS to hard drive?
Has anyone had good experiences "ripping" video, whether to archive on a media server, or for quick emailable, iPod watchable "rips"?