lossless extraction of MPEG2 and AC3 from DVD to .mpg?

[Flusterphonic]

Is there an easy way to do this?

I'm looking to archive a lot of stuff (namely TV series I have on DVD) on my hard drive, and I'd prefer not to re-encode any quality or lose the AC3 track... I looked and looked but couldnt find an answer to this problem. Surely I'm not the only one seeking lossless backups out there...

Plus, in the future, this would allow me to burn these files to a dual-layered recordable format when media becomes available. There's nothing I hate more about my Star Trek DVDs than sitting through the stupid Paramount warnings and animated menus.

Any help would be hot-- have pretty much every piece of software I could possibly need for the task I should think.

[mats.hogberg]

Extraction or demultiplexing is the word. Load your VOBs in ReJig and extract what you want.

/Mats

[Flusterphonic]

Thanks! I figured ReJig was my best bet.

What part of ReJig should I use? (File mode, IFO, etc)

[mats.hogberg]

I have an old version of ReJig (haven't looked at the new) but I think file mode is best, since it's files your dealing with (VOB files to be precise).

/Mats

[Flusterphonic]

When I add all the VOB files in File mode, "Stream List" only appears with ONE video stream and ONE of each audio stream (should be 3 different episodes on this disc)... what am I doing wrong?

[mats.hogberg]

Yes, that's how ReJig works (at least my "ancient" version). It concatenates all VOBs into one mpeg. (I'd say except for episode VOB sets, that's what you want!) If that's not what you want, maybe the ifo mode will work, or try change your rip method to get one vob each episode.

/Mats