How do I extract and save trailers from my DVD's?

[Grateful11]

Hi, I'm fairly new here and I've STF but found nothing pretaining to my question. I have a fairly extensive DVD collection and I use DVDTheque to catalog them. It has the option of linking a Movie Trailer to each entry. Problem is with many of the older DVD's it's nearly impossible to find a Trailer for the movie to download but nearly every DVD has the Trailer on it. I would like to extract the Trailer and save it as an .mpg or .mov on my HD so I can link to it for previewing my DVD's. I have MTR, YadeX, Toast and Popcorn but can't figure out how do this. I'm running a G4 533 Dual with OSX 10.3.9. Any help would be appreciated.

[Case]

Play the trailers from the DVD, note down the title(s) and chapter(s) from the display. In MTR, select the title with just the trailer, like my example shown below. Use MPEG Streamclip or ffmpegX to turn the VOB into a QuickTime playable file.

[Grateful11]

Cool! I'm going to try that tonight and see how it goes. Thanks!

[pianoman719]

Personally, I wouldn't want to be without the invaluable freeware application MPEG Streamclip. To get the most out of it, you need the Apple MPEG Playback Component for QuickTime (OS X version), available as a $20 download from the Apple store.

With the Apple MPEG component installed, Yade X gives you decent previews of exactly what you're ripping. So on a DVD that's crowded with extras (like a handsome simulfax copy of the director's baby shoes), you can use Yade X to preview frames from the DVD, visually locate the trailer, and rip it as a VOB.

Then open the VOB in MPEG Streamclip, do a Cmd-F to fix any timecode breaks, and from the file menu choose Convert To MPEG with MP2 Sound. This will create a file that QuickTime Player can play natively, without the need to download any special codecs.

-Pianoman

[Grateful11]

pianoman719: That worked great! I appreciate the tips.