ripping DVDs

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:27:57 -0500, David Vernon wrote:

> Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
>> I am looking for a reliable way of ripping a DVD onto hard drive. I have tried to use mencoder and transcode with and without GUIs, but I get rather
>> mixed results (mostly video is fine, but the sound is all jumbled). The re-encoding is not a requirement, I can keep the original VOBs as long as
>> there is some way to rip and use subtitles. I have tried and tried and to no avail. If someone has suggestions, tried and proven commands or any other
>> help on the subject I would truly appreciate.
> 
> mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile ./bigmovie.mpeg dvd://$yourTitleNumber
> 
> The output of this is playable via mplayer,xine,whatever as a big mpeg
> and the sound will be in sync.
>

However, if you then want to author bigmovie.mpeg with dvdauthor, say, you
can't. Or at least it's not straightforward. I had to dumpvideo, dumpaudio,
then re-multiplex the two in order to get an mpeg usable by dvdauthor. And
the final product had a significant and annoying A-V difference of a few
seconds. I'd be interested in a good way of authoring the dumped stream.