Ripping a portion of a DVD with the best quality?

[trikcard]

I need to take several DVDs and rip just portions of them to compile onto one DVD. I've read through the forums, and saw some options, but I was concerned with lack of quality. I've looked at the program FlaskMpeg, but there seems to be quality loss. What's the best way to take out a couple scenes from a dvd and what is the best format to save it to without losing quality?

Thanks!

[guns1inger]

Use DVD decrypter to rip just the chapters that contain the scenes you need - no quality loss

Edit these down with an mpeg editor that doesn't encode, or only encodes a few frames around the cut - no quality loss (or so little you won't see it)

Assemble the pieces in TDA as a single track for smooth play through - no quality loss

[trikcard]

Doesn't DVD Decrypter only rip to a Vob file? TDA can do the editing as far as trimming what I don't need?

[guns1inger]

You can get decrypter to demux to elementary streams as well.
TDA can trim, may be enough for what you need. TDA can also import from VOBs.

[trikcard]

If I had TDA change it to an MPG it would not lose much quality then?

[guns1inger]

extracting an mpeg from a vob does not affect quality as you aren't changing the video. Only re-encoding will affect quality.

[mats.hogberg]

TDA doesn't change anything to mpg - it takes mpg or VOB as source, then spits out Video DVD files including (but not limited to) VOBs. As TDA can't encode, no quality loss is involved.

/Mats

[Noahtuck]

TDA doesn't change anything to mpg - it takes mpg or VOB as source, then spits out Video DVD files including (but not limited to) VOBs. As TDA can't encode, no quality loss is involved.

/Mats

Actually you can use TDA to rip vob's from a disc to .mpg's
Along with everything else you said 8)