Ripping the menu and submenus

[lukebest88]

How can I rip the DVD menus to my HD so I can edit them?
Perferably in MPEG/AVI format but I guess I can transcode the VOB...
Help plz?
Regards
-Luke

[adam]

Try following my guide except just encode to dvd compliant mpeg, I assume DVD is your desired target.

Basically, getting to the menu's is no different than getting to the movie itself. Rip the right vob, load it in dvd2avi or virtualdubmod, then frameserve to your editing software. Make your edits then frameserve to your encoder.

As for subpictures, just use Subrip. Tell it to "open dir" and load the VIDEO_TS dir. Find the vob containing the menu (my guide tells you how) and then load it and hit verify. It will find all the subpictures streams for you. There may be more because often menu's are authored for both 16:9 and 4:3, so you may have to extract both.

[lukebest88]

How can I find out which VOB is the correct one?
What software can I use?

And also, what do you mean by "frameserve"?
Is it necessary to do this before I can edit it?

thanks for the help
-Luke

[adam]

Like I said, if you follow the guide I posted it tells you how to find the vob in the very first step.

Frameserving is where you process your video in a program and it sends it frame by frame to another piece of software. You would use it instead of say, loading the vob and decompressing it to avi, then loading it in your editor and saving as a new avi after making edits, then loading in the encoder and making the final mpg. By frameserving you only have to write the file once at the end. If you are not familar with this don't worry, menu's are typically fairly small so if you have a decent amount of hard drive space than you can just save everything out to avi and you should'nt have any problems.

As far as frameserving being necessary, its not but it sure makes things easier. If all you need is a linear editor (cut out middle part as opposed to moving things around) than you can just load your vobs directly into VirtualDubMod and then save as an avi.

[lukebest88]

Ok, so I have the correct VOB now,
I tried DVD2AVI but whenever I try to open the AVI that was made, windows explorer preforms an error but somehow I can still play it... strange

Im trying VirtualDubMod. I will let you know if I have any problems.
Thanks for all your help
Cheers
-Luke

[adam]

lukebest88 are you following the guide? You do not save out the avi in dvd2avi, you save a project file (d2v) and then you can use that to frameserve with.

[lukebest88]

I used VirtualDubMod to extract the certain parts of the menu into Avi
Thats worked great, I didnt need to frameserve it.

Just trying to make a good animated menu of my own out of the clips now, proving very difficult indeed...

Thanks for all the help
(Names Luke btw, see below :P lol)
-Luke