ripping DVDs

[alan]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Colin Brace wrote:
>
>> On 1/25/07, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <nigde at mitechki.net> 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.
>>
>> I have had good results with dvdrip, including producing .srt subtitle files:
>
> is there a utility i can use to rip *excerpts* from a DVD based on
> watching in real-time, then moving frame by frame to where i want, and
> starting the rip until i tell it to stop, and dumping that into an AVI
> file?
>
> i've used menconder but that requires putting in the start and end
> time, and i'd *really* like to do this on the fly, based on visual
> cues.

Dvdrip is good for that.

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