Ripping a DVD to my HD as an MPEG2 file....

[etecnifibre]

Can someone give me the skinny here? I've got a basketball game on a DVD, and want the file on my hard drive as MPEG2 so I can edit it. I have two tapes of the game, but am missing important parts, and I would really like to get this project started, hence the reason for my post and not reading the way I always do. If anyone can direct me to a program that can help me, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[andkiich]

Check out the GUIDES and TOOLS section for DVDDecrypter, SmartRipper and ISOBuster. One of those should be able to get you what you want.

[Bodene]

When I've ripped DVD's to Mpeg2, I used DVDx. NOT DVDxCopy. DVDx is free, but it takes a few hours to do it since it re-encodes frame by frame. The video quality is excellent btw.

However you do it, just remember to use a standard resolution. If you try to hand pick your resolution, you'll likely run into issues later when u try to author it to a DVD.