Capturing parts of a DVD/Converting to AVI. Any suggestions?

[masrocha]

I'm new in this forum and I want to say hi to all.
I have a couple questions about what I am trying to do and I don't have any experience in capturing, converting or editing video, but I'm trying and I will appreciate any help or suggestion.
My friend works as a dentist and he got this DVD with a lot of different movies inside, is like 30 or 40 separated movies that you can access by the menu. What I have to do is to select a specific movie, save this movie in my hard Disk and convert to *.avi. Does anybody know how can this job be done or where can I find a tutorial about this?

Thanks a lot,

[guns1inger]

30 or 40 different movies ? I am assuming these are short films or cartoons, rather than feature length movies.

If it is a real DVD you could use DVD Shrink in reauthor mode to isolate the parts you want and write them out as new, smaller VOBs, then use virtualdub-mpeg2 to convert them to divx or xvid avi.

[jimmalenko]

DVDDecrypter in IFO Mode. Select the VTS and PGC that corresponds to the item you want. This will give you a VOB file. Load the VOB in AutoGK. This will give you an AVI file (either Divx or XviD).

Job done

[masrocha]

Using both sets of apps that you guys indicated, DVD Shrink & VirtualDub-Mpeg2 or DVD Decrypter & AutoGK, Can I redimension the output video?

[jimmalenko]

Of course.

[masrocha]

I'm sorry if I doubled my post. I posted at DVD to AVI, MP4, WMV, S/VCD because I wasn't sure if I had posted into a correct forum.
This won't happened again.

[masrocha]

Which codec is better to work or is acceptable to others computers?
DivX or XviD?

[guns1inger]

If you want global playability, mpeg-1. But it won't be as small. WMV is pretty good for file size, but cuts out the mac/linux crowd. Xvid/Divx - much of a muchness. Xvid is opensource and free. Divx probably watermarks your output unless you pay (can't confirm - got mine during their freebie day)