How to rip a DVD: A Tutorial

Posted in Computers & Technology, Movies, Law, P2P by Elliott Back on December 26th, 2005. I change the Step 2 in case of it's more suit to our perpose what's to rip chapter from our disk.

Ripping a DVD to xvid or divx avi is really quite easy, if you have the right tools. You’ll first need to download DVD decrypter and auto gordian knot (autogk). DVD decrypter allows you to rip the raw DVD video and audio data off of your disk drive, decrypt the CSS protection, and finally remove any other protection schemes, such as Macrovision. AutoGK is a package of codecs and a GUI interface that will take the raw DVD data through an AV processing pipeline to produce a single windows video file.

Step 1: RIP

Put in a DVD and launch DVD Decrypter. Choose IFO (Information File) mode:

Now make sure you’ve selected a destination for your files:

Now you need to find which program chain to rip (PGC). Pick the one that’s the longest, or in the case of a TV dvd, the episode you want to rip:

Everything’s set up. Just click the green arrow and wait about twenty minutes, after which you will have a set of files which look like this:

VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_PGC_07 - Stream Information.txt
VTS_01_PGC_07_1.VOB

The whole ripping process shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes.

Step 2: ENCODE

I rewrite this step on my own way in case of it can more suit our perpose.If you want to read the original contents.Please browse the author's blog:Elliott C. Back

It's convenient to change the chapter into another format.

I use WinAVI 8.0 to change it into an Avi file which is encode by Xvid MPEG-4 Codec,My perpose is to change a MTV into a 320*240 movie file in case of my cellphone can play it well.You know,I can'tse a computer in my dorm.

By the way.I found it's also have a good looked quility on 320/240 even if your file with only 110Kbps.

So let's begin,Open the WinAVI 8.0.and you'll find a friendly Window click the avi bottom,then select your file.

In the detail setting window you can use some default setting to change your movies.

but we need some special setting,click the Advance bottom you can see some detail setting .Just select what you need. and then ,start change!

Step 3: WATCH

You’re done. Delete all the non .avi files and enjoy the fruits of your ripping.