It's trivial to rip a DVD into a high quality mp4 with Handbreak or similar tools. At this point AVI containers are actually not as well supported as mp4/h264.

It's trivial to rip a DVD into a high quality mp4 with Handbreak or similar tools. At this point AVI containers are actually not as well supported as mp4/h264. I can't think of any good reason to encode to AVI.