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- Darth_tater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+46 because http://www.therealcaffeine.com.nyud.net:8080/how-to/rip-dvd-with-vlc/ is getting slower.
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How-to: Rip DVDs with VLC
VLC Media Player is one of the most versatile media players ever. What it lacks in looks, it more than makes up for in functionality. It can read and save all the major formats of video and audio, and much more than that, it can rip DVDs. This is a pretty simple process, if you know what you’re doing. Plus, it saves you having to buy expensive DVD ripping software!
VLC 1 (click to enlarge)
The first step is to open up VLC and click the open button (it’s the leftmost one). From the dialog box that appears select Disc and then DVD. Enter the letter of your DVD-ROM drive in the device name box, and 0 in the title box. Click OK to see if that’s what you want to rip. If it is, click the stream/save box and then settings. Otherwise, change the title to 1 and then keep increasing the number until you find the one you want. It might take a little bit, some DVDs have the main video as late as title 15.
VLC 2 (click to enlarge)
Once you’ve got the right video though, open the settings box and uncheck the “play locally” box if it’s checked (unless you want to watch it at the same time it’s ripping) and check the file, video, and audio boxes. Select where you’re going to save your movie (save it as a .mpg, like movie.mpg) by hitting browse and then navigating to the folder where you want to save it and typing moviename.mpg in the name box. Select mp1v for the video codec and mp3 for the audio, 1024k is usually a good size and produces a nice balance between size and quality.
VLC 3 (click to enlarge)
Click OK, and OK again. VLC should start transcoding the disc to your hard drive, where you can watch it. As a bit of a warning, when you want to watch the file with VLC, be absolutely sure that the stream/save box is unchecked in the open dialog box, or bad things might happen. Like your two hours of transcoding being erased (guilty!) You can watch the ripped files in any media player though.
Last Modified : January 21st, 2007
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- opes, on 10/12/2007, -10/+39link whoring is fun!
- pigonthewing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26"Who buys DVD ripping software?
DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter are both free."
...how much did you pay for your copy of VLC? - Poland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18http://www.therealcaffeine.com.nyud.net:8080/how-to/rip-dvd-with-vlc/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Why would you do this the hard way? DVD ripping is not expensive. There are free rippers available and you only have to click one single button for it to start ripping. It's just that easy. Why make this harder than it has to be. On my computer right now.
DVD Decrypter - My main ripper - free but discontinued, you can still find it online.
DVD43 - Free
DVD Fab decrypter - Also free, but limited to simple ripping
Editing software
PGC Edit - My main navigation editor. - Use it to remove trailers and FBI warnings. - Free
VOB Blanker - Free
FixVTS - Free
IFOEdit - Free
VOBEdit - Free
DVDShrink - Free - Can be used for ripping as well.
DVDRebuilder - Free
VLC - Playback only. - Chipsandsnacks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Do you *really* need to let the world know that you did not click on the digg button? Is it really that important? I think the rest of us can infer from your tone that you obviously did not digg this
- jstevewhite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Use handbrake. Works like a dream.
- Chipsandsnacks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Media Player Classic is not associated with Microsoft
http://www.download.com/Media-Player-Classic/3000-2139_4-10518777.html?tag=lst-0-2 - MuTeD, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19http://www.therealcaffeine.com.nyud.net:8080/how-to/rip-dvd-with-vlc/
Takes awhile but works.
Edit: Eh poland got 2 seconds before me, wish there was a delete. - KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Still, as much as VLC is by far not the best way to do this, it is the most portable. Just stick VLC on a USB key and literally do almost anything with it. I don't have room to carry the 20 common video apps I use on my key, and they are not optimized for limited write media. VLC works fine for that purpose. Also, many users, like my father, seem to have limited computer app memory. He can only seem to remember about 20 apps total on his system at the same time. This reduces all these functions to one, so he at least knows where to start.
- anjinash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Agreed, but it's a lost cause here. Digg's great, but there's a lot of insecure little punks here who think this is a dick-waving contest.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Yeah, but it's VLC. Cut him some slack, eh?
- R3doubt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10http://www.doom9.org
- TNHitokiri, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12VLC is the greatest cross platform media player ever, but media player classic is much better in windows.
Also, it hasn't become that hard to find dvd decrypter around the net anymore, has it? - anjinash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8MPC does not have all of the codecs built into it like VLC, nor is it cross platform or portable.
- nielkie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9You mean mencoder :-)
- HalBSure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7At least you didn't forget about him.
- Terc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I'm waiting for full screen setting with progress bar on mouse motion... The only thing that keeps me from switching to VLC as my only video application.
- ScottMaximus1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I don't know why you're comparing a Remote Desktop with a Media Center Application
You noobcake - KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I use VLC on both my macs and haven't had a problem with either one. When I try to play movies with quicktime on my older mac the video skips and stutters often, but plays flawlessly in VLC. I do get an error if I try to fast forward in VLC, but I just hit ignore and everything still works fine.
- greekgoat91, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8VLC sucks on Macs but is great on Windows and Linux, just use Perian and Quicktime for the best video playback on a Mac
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8DVD Decrypter is a pretty popular DVD ripper with lots of features (eg. fixing the user restrictions that prevent you from fast forwarding). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Decrypter
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I love VLC, but its skin support sucks ass. The skins really bloat it up, take a while to load, disappear while windows are being dragged, etc.
- cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5yep
- Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I love the way people on digg always have to say "mines better then yours".
If you're happy with whatever you're using now, FINE. But please don't turn this into a my x is better then your x like a bunch of ***** five year olds. This is simply telling you that if you use vlc, you can also rip DVD's using VLC. - SlashNot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Everyone saying DVD shrink...
I used to swear by it, but Gridiron Gang pretty much broke it. I tried DVD Shrink and DVD decrypter and several others with errors galore. I used MacTheRipper on the Mac with no problem. - dontera, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@mfratt
I believe the error was related to the amount of data on the DVD. Some double layer DVDs cannot, even at DVDShrink's best compression, be made less
@shreveyboy
I use VLC in Vista just about every night, seems to work just as well as it ever did in XP. - ScottMaximus1, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13Who buys DVD ripping software?
DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter are both free. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I like Mactheripper for Macs. It is PP but runs on intel OK.
- cr4ft, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5VLC > WMP
- MattH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Ripit4me Automates the ripping and shirinking process ...
http://www.ripit4me.org/ - Rice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4VLC for the mac is getting better. It took them a while to get out a Universal Binary, but recently they added Apple Remote support. I mean, it looks bad, and sometimes is chokes on some stuff really bad, but I still think it's a good .app to have around.
Ditto on the Perian quicktime component. It's amazing. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3whenever I can't rip something i head to the doom9 forums and see what's up. I haven't met a disc I can't rip yet.
- shreveyboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3is vlc's video vista compatible yet? They were having video, but not audio, problems the last time I checked.
- crazybrit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4DVD Decrypter is amazing, but some of us don't use Windows.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Mirror:
How-to: Rip DVDs with VLC
The first step is to open up VLC and click the open button (it’s the leftmost one). From the dialog box that appears select Disc and then DVD. Enter the letter of your DVD-ROM drive in the device name box, and 0 in the title box. Click OK to see if that’s what you want to rip. If it is, click the stream/save box and then settings. Otherwise, change the title to 1 and then keep increasing the number until you find the one you want. It might take a little bit, some DVDs have the main video as late as title 15.
VLC 2 (click to enlarge)
Once you’ve got the right video though, open the settings box and uncheck the “play locally” box if it’s checked (unless you want to watch it at the same time it’s ripping) and check the file, video, and audio boxes. Select where you’re going to save your movie (save it as a .mpg, like movie.mpg) by hitting browse and then navigating to the folder where you want to save it and typing moviename.mpg in the name box. Select mp1v for the video codec and mp3 for the audio, 1024k is usually a good size and produces a nice balance between size and quality.
VLC 3 (click to enlarge)
Click OK, and OK again. VLC should start transcoding the disc to your hard drive, where you can watch it. As a bit of a warning, when you want to watch the file with VLC, be absolutely sure that the stream/save box is unchecked in the open dialog box, or bad things might happen. Like your two hours of transcoding being erased (guilty!) You can watch the ripped files in any media player though. - greekgoat91, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4dammit, dead already
- allthewhile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If this is true, I like the idea of being able to watch the DVD while it's being transcoded.
- MacGyver2210, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Check out Gordian Knot."
Yes, because using 4-6 different programs with bad documentation is so much easier than the above steps how? - MacGyver2210, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Quit being an *****. Not every story on Digg gets this much traffic, and not every Jack Jim and Joe can afford a huge-bandwidth hosting account just so you can read an article they post.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6killed it in 7 minutes?
Nice..
EDIT: btw , VLC is the greatest... - Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"What it lacks in looks, it more than makes up for in functionality."
Theres a cure to the "lack of looks" - Simply visit http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.php ... - MacGyver2210, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think it's unfair to call the VLC UI 'craptastic' because you don't understand what all the little buttons and text fields are for. Some of us like and use all those features, which -fwiw- DVD Shrink does NOT offer.
Dugg Down - greg04, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2can VLC extract a clip from a dvd/video you are playing? if not, what's a program that can?
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@jstevewhite
I used that back when I had my mac, really great program and I do miss it.
I tried DVD shrink, but it didn't work out for me. I tried to rip Rush R30, and it failed saying that there was not enough space on the disc, when there is some 100GB free. I ended up using DVD decryptor, so now I have a 7GB concert on my hard drive. - Ruckgesicht, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For Vista, simply switch the rendering engine. To do this:
- Settings > Preferences
- Expand Video
- Click on Output Modes
- Click Advanced options
- Use OpenGL or try another one that works without causing Vista to bump the program down to Aero basic.
It's been a little while since I did this, so I don't remember which one worked for me. But doing this and testing it out will eventually give you the one you'll need. - onidraky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The "lack of looks" is actually one of my favorite parts about it. I don't need a fancy bloated skin to watch vids, and the lack of that skin makes it load in less than a second. For the amount of times I watch random videos throughout the day, it's nice to be able to open and close the player in such a short time.
- Terc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2probably because there are operating systems outside of Windows. Not to say Media Player Classic isn't great.
- MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2vlc can, i think.
I'm positive MediaCoder has a similar funciton. -
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