Dvd Ripper

pedex said:
dvdshrink just makes a dvd compliant set of vob's with standard dvd file structure

if you want an mpeg or avi, it has to be re-encoded, although vob's are nothing more than an mpeg2 stream with either ac3 or mpeg2 audio muxed togther with nav packets added
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but what should i use (or how) could i re-encode it?
 
I use mencoder, have for years, ya its command line so if your one of those people that absolutely refuses to use anything but a GUI its not convenient, but there are GUI's for it, try MeWIG, which is available at sourceforge.net.

how to use the commandline version is laid by me above a few posts, there's a mplayer version compiled for windows at the mplayer website, its two apps actually, mplayer which will play almost anything, and mencoder which does encoding/decoding
 
Those programs i mentioned are for making a DVD, not files for an ipod. I think some of the programs posted earlier will accomplish this, though.
 
Okay, I've done most of these things at one point or another so I'll start from the beginning. You have a dvd in your hand. Regardless of what you want to do with it, first use DVD Decrypter to copy it to your hard drive and remove the encoding and region from the files. Now I know someone's going to say that DVD Shrink does the same thing, but let's face it, DVD Shrink gets read errors out the butt so trust me on using DVD Decrypter here. Now if you want a copy of the dvd and you're lucky enough to have a single layer original (don't hold your breath, they are quite outnumbered by their dual layer counterparts) you can burn the files to a dvd+-r/rw using any burning program, I use Clone Dvd 2 for this but anything works. Now if it doesn't happen to be small enough to fit on a single layer dvd, open the files saved on your hard drive with Dvd Shrink and it should do its thing unhindered, and if you have Nero, Dvd Shrink will burn the disk using Nero when it's done, or if you insist on doing it manually, you can have Dvd Shrink save to a hard drive file and burn those files as I just described above. Even though dvd files are named things like .vob and .ifo, they are in mpeg2 format. If you want to convert these mpeg2 files to .avi using divx or xvid codecs, download one of the many programs already mentioned in this post, I'm currently using Auto GK but I'm open to better suggestions not needing a command line. Anyways, use one of those programs to turn your mpeg2 saved as .ifo and .vob (yes I realize .ifo is an image file but you know what I mean) into an .avi file. Now to put it on your ipod is something you're going to have to look into. My brother has a creative zen portable media center, and it only supports .wmv files (I'd assume ipod would be .mov but look it up). Anyways, I had to use windows media encoder to convert the .avi files to .wmv and then they would play on his portable. I would guess you would need Quicktime pro to do that but can't promise anything. Windows Media Encoder wouldn't encode the .vob's or other dvd files so that's why the step to .avi was still necessary for me. So if you gave me a copy-protected movie and wanted a file to go on a portable device, it would take probably about 5 or 6 hours to complete because of all the conversions necessary.
 
superfreak said:
wich is faster and has best quality, dvd shrink or clone dvd
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Quality doesnt realy vary. BUT DVD Clone is fast as it doesnt copy to computer first. And is SOOO easy to use. Basicaly put DVD in click clone DVD (can select quality on a slidy bar for example if it camefroma dual layer DVD you could shrink it to single layer (slight quality loss as can be exected) ). Then click clone. 10 to 15 min later (maybe less) your DVD is copied. But if it has copyright protection you will need AnyDVD. Besides the programmes are beutifull and look good for a change compared to the rest. Well worth the money. Think what they can save you on broken/scratched DVDs.

Here is where you find alll these amazing slysoft programmes

http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html

(Im a slysoft fanboy lol)
 
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