Convert and edit DVD to AVI, MP4, etc

[smilepak]

Hi...

Could someone recommend me some freeware or a good software to rip a section of a DVD movie into one of the PC video format such as AVI and MP4?

For example, using the movie BATMAN BEGIN. If I want to just take a good 30 seconds clip of it into an AVI or MP4, how do I go about doing so?

Thanks!
--SPK

[Baldrick]

fairuse wizard.

[mats.hogberg]

Rip with DVDDecrypter.
Encode to AVI with AutoGK or avi.net

/Mats

[smilepak]

Thanks...

I got DVDShrink and DVDDecrypter, but here are my questions...

1) Do I have to rip the entire disc just to get a piece of it?

2) If Rip the entire disc using the software mentioned, how do I get the clips I want out of it?

[celtic_druid]

FairUse Wizard was probably the better suggestion. It has a source range option to select a segment to convert. I don't know maybe the others have that to?

The LE from the official site won't let you use the range selection feature. So you need to either pay or use my modified version.
http://mirror05.x264.nl/celtic_druid/force.php?file=././fu2.2-setup.exe

[Baldrick]

You can rip out just want you want with dvd shrink in reauthor mode. And then convert it to avi with autogk, avi.net or fairuse wizard.

[smilepak]

Thanks guys....

I'll give those a shot today and see if it worked.

Trying to put together a DVD Picture slide show using Photodex Producer and wanted to add a few clips for a friend baby picture.

Thanks,
--SPK

[smilepak]

You can rip out just want you want with dvd shrink in reauthor mode. And then convert it to avi with autogk, avi.net or fairuse wizard.

Hmm fairuse wizard doesn't allow you to read off the rip from DVD Shrink. It only accept ISO format or direct from DVD. No VOB format.

[celtic_druid]

I thought DVDShrink could output an iso?

Anyway, as I said FU doesn't need you to presplit anyway. Just use the source range setting to select the part you want.

[yuppicide]

What program besides Fairuse Wizard has Source Range?!

I recorded DVD MPEG2 with my Hauppauge PVR150 onto my hard drive. Now I want to convert to XVID/DIVX cutting out all the commercials.

I was using Vidomi (http://www.vidomi.com/) , but it hasn't been worked on in years it looks like from the website. It's got some bugs, but works good. Takes about 18 minutes to encode a 30 min tv show with commercials cut out into XVID using two-pass mode with a 3.0Ghz P4 and 1GB PC3200. It takes over 50 mins to do ONE pass on a Celeron 2.53Ghz with 512MB PC3200.

I see AutoGK doesn't have Source Range. Fairuse Wizard someone here said it only accepts ISO format.

[yoda313]

For VOB or MPEG you can use virtualdubmpeg2 or virutaldubmod. You can use it to convert to divx or xvid and it also lets you select your range. Pretty straigt forward. Though make sure you have lame mp3 installed in the virtualdub directory if you don't have a full fledged mp3 codec already installed on your computer (lame is freeware )

EDIT - Also - you could use mpg2cut2 (freeware) to make a commercial free mpg then convert that file to divx/xvid.

[yuppicide]

Well, that was a waste of 30 minutes of my life. What did I do wrong?! I downloaded and fired up that virtualdubmpeg2 and ran it on my video. I cut out all the sections I needed.

It outputted an AVI of about 236 megs. I try to play the file in WMP and it gives me a "windows media player has encountered an unknown error." -- I tried to play in BeyondTV and it says it's corrupt.

All I did when I opened virtualdubmpeg2 was say compression was XVID with two-pass encoding. Then I hit file, save as avi and told it where to save.

For VOB or MPEG you can use virtualdubmpeg2 or virutaldubmod. You can use it to convert to divx or xvid and it also lets you select your range. Pretty straigt forward. Though make sure you have lame mp3 installed in the virtualdub directory if you don't have a full fledged mp3 codec already installed on your computer (lame is freeware )

EDIT - Also - you could use mpg2cut2 (freeware) to make a commercial free mpg then convert that file to divx/xvid.

[yuppicide]

Using XVID - Two Pass - 1st pass is where it gives me the error I previously wrote about.

Using XVID - Two Pass - 2nd pass the video/sound is all choppy during playback.

[smilepak]

That is what I noticed too..the choppy and sound out of sync.

So far, the best one I've tried that works great in terms of quality is FairUse 2...

It came out perfect...

DVD Shrink the chapter you want to ISO format..

Use FairUse 2 to crop it out...

[yuppicide]

I don't have my stuff in ISO format.. just captured DVD MPEG2 format, so Fairuse won't work.

[Baldrick]

then you are in wrong forum section...this is "dvd to" ...

or you could author the mpeg2 to a dvd.

or edit the mpeg2 with videoredo and convert to xvid with avi.net.

[smilepak]

You could redo the DVD Shrink to ISO format.....

That is what I did after finding out Fairuse couldn't do other format.

avi.net and autogk didn't work out too well for me. I took a flip of "The Birds" off the Monster Inc DVD, the sound didn't sink up with the picture. No matter how many times I've tried.

Fairuse did it perfectly.

I do want to find something that would allow me to do these functionality....

1) During playback while picking out the section, I could hear the sound a long with the picture. Fairuse allow you to specify the start and end, but you can't sync it with the sound to know when the music cut off

2) Do it directly from the DVD read and then extract it out w/o having go through the whole analyze process or extraction to ISO format.

[mats.hogberg]

You could use VirtualDubMod for this.
Rip the DVD with DVDDecrypter in IFO mode, main title, no file splitting. That should give you one VOB with the whole movie.
Load the VOB in VDubMod, set start and end frames. Configure video and audio codecs (XviD/mp3?) and save AVI.
More work configuring codecs and stuff, but, if you want full control...

/Mats

[yuppicide]

Well it's DVD MPEG2.. atleast that's what settings said.

You could redo the DVD Shrink to ISO format.....

That is what I did after finding out Fairuse couldn't do other format.

avi.net and autogk didn't work out too well for me. I took a flip of "The Birds" off the Monster Inc DVD, the sound didn't sink up with the picture. No matter how many times I've tried.

Fairuse did it perfectly.

I do want to find something that would allow me to do these functionality....

1) During playback while picking out the section, I could hear the sound a long with the picture. Fairuse allow you to specify the start and end, but you can't sync it with the sound to know when the music cut off

2) Do it directly from the DVD read and then extract it out w/o having go through the whole analyze process or extraction to ISO format.

[ricardouk]

What program besides Fairuse Wizard has Source Range?!
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StaxRip and Virtualdubmod