Rip DVD into MPEG2 - In one step?

[wwalker]

What software can rip a DVD into a 720x480 MPEG2 in one step?

I want to put the DVD in, answer a few quesitons - and click.
All of the these separate programs and steps are for the birds.
There has got be be an easier way...

~w

[gmatov]

Wht do you want to do with the ripped and converted DVD? VCD, (S)VCD, or DVD?
If you are trying to backup to CD-R, I personally use DVDx 2.2, a one shot, all in one program, enter some parameters, specify an output file, and size to fit 2 or more CDs, actually about 75 minutes to a CD if you keep the bitrate low.
It will do MPEG1 VCD, MPEG2 (S)VCD. I just did a 1 hour 25 minute movie, at 2300kbps, high for VCD, but the auto calculator split it to 2 full CDs. Every time you bump up the bit rate, it shows you the finished size instantly. They burned perfectly, and, I think, look every bit as good as the original DVD.
Did I mention it's absolutely free?
The whole thing took just about 2 hours. I think it goes faster at higher bitrates, less compression to do. Seems to me an hour and a half at 1150 default took closer to 3 hours.
One thing to not forget is to push the button for "whole" movie, as it defaults at 1 or 10000 frames initially, and to the last movie when you start a new one, so it will only go that far and say "done".
Give it a try. Nothing to lose.
Good luck.

[wwalker]

Wht do you want to do with the ripped and converted DVD?

I will be editing it with Adobe Premiere - so my greatest concern is quality - not compression.

[gmatov]

Well, DVDx will convert to MPEG2, SVCD, so if you can work with the files, it may work. You can set the bitrate to whatever you want, within reason, I guess. I've never tried video editing with an MPEG, only avi captures. If you have the disk space, give it a try.
One thing is, it is fairly fast which I can't say for some of the other, to me, much more complicated programs.
Again, it's free, it's fast, and, since I rely on it, it's easy.
BTW, you can set the file output size to "Custom" and have small files to work with (how you merge them, you'd know better than I) or one large file, or X # of CDs.

[grommi]

Hi wwalker!

I use "dvd2svcd", it combines tmpgenc or cce with the best freeware you need under a "one-click"-gui to make really excellent mpeg2's.

All commercial solutions I tried suck compared with dvd2svcd. This thing does exactly what you are wishing, make a few settings, click "convert" and go to sleep! Even your PC turns off when the job is done.

If you want to extract the mpeg2-files from the vob's of your dvd's without reconverting/compressing, I don't know any tool to do that. Does anybody know of?


Cheers

grommi

[gmatov]

Grommi,
I tried DVD2SVCD on a 3 hour DVD, and wound up with over 17 gigabytes of files I couldn't burn. I don't know what I did wrong; all I know is it took close to 20 hours, on the other machine, AMD 1800+, 120 and 80 HDDs, 512 RAM.
This can't be normal, as I'm sure you guys have to be getting results that can be burnt, or what's the use?.
I have a screen shot, about 65K, to big to post? It's a gif. Anyone able to get it e-mail and tell me what my problem is?
Thanks,
George

[grommi]

Hi gmatov,

you got mail.

grommi

[Hardcoreruss]

I am a big fan of Eazy VCD, you can get that from the tools section

[lance]

i personally like Super DVD Ripper and DVDx. They are the fastest and best quality programs i have used so far. Only problem is when i burn it and put it in my DVD player and click Fast Forward it goez out of sync!!! does anyone know why? sorry if this is kind of off topic.

lance

[Raen]

Not exactly one step but I use DVD2AVI to frameserve to TMPGEnc and use the dvd template for Tmpenc. Makes a very high quality MPEG2

[curryman]

just rip with decrypter and make sure join all vobs together is ticked, then rename to .mpeg and it will open in premiere

[curryman]

sorry, forgot to say - rip main movie only.

[wkc]

wwalker,
Since you will process the mpg file in Premiere, you should just extract the movie out as-is, without going through any transcoding like DVD2SVCD, DVDx, or <whatever>VCD software. Since you use Premiere, you know each generation degrade the quality of your video.

Your one step solution should be using Smartripper and just extra the main movie out with demux on both Video and Audio track. You will get one big .m2v and one big .m2a file in just one step. A perfect format that Premiere can use.

[presto]

using Smartripper and just extra the main movie out with demux on both Video and Audio track. You will get one big .m2v and one big .m2a file in just one step

Could you explain this a little further. I've used Smartripper before but I always get a lot of vob files. How do you end up with one .m2v and one m2a?

[wkc]

Click on the "Settings" tab, under "File - Splitting", i think the default is "every chapter". That's why you're getting a LOT of files. Select "max-filesize". Also make sure the max-filesize down below is big enough that it won't split any files at all.

[wkc]

Instead of getting VOB files, you can go into the "Stream Processing" and make sure EVERY Streams (both video and audio) are selected as "Demux to extra file", instead of the default "Direct stream copy".

"Demux to extra" file gives you .m2v for the video and .m2a for audio. "Direct stream copy" gives you the vob file.

[txpharoah]

Your question has too few details on what you want to do.

To simply extract the audio and video from the VOB, use VOBedit.

[wkc]

Well, from what wwalker posted in his first and 2nd post here, you can see that he just need to get the movie out from a DVD and process in Premiere. No other detail or fancy steps are needed. Just any ONE software that is capable of decrypt the DVD and get the video and one particular audio track out as a 720x480 mpeg2 file (its original form) is good enough.