Ripping BDMV streams as VOB

[Dinsdale87]

Hey guys

I am wondering if you can help. I've been putting alot of DVD's onto Blu-ray recently which I've been very happy with and have had no problems whatsoever. The content I'm putting on is weekly episodic TV programs that were recorded in standard definition. So they're all 4:3 MPEG-2 files in NTSC format.

However, I was wondering if anyone knew of software with a "DVD Shrink-like" GUI that would enable me to pick off MPEG-2 titles from the BD and rip them to a DVD VOB container.

I know DVDFab does this, but it is extremely slow, to the point where I'm pretty much convinced it is re-encoding for no reason (actually, just checked and it does indeed re-encode for some bizzare reason) For example, when you pick a title on DVD Shrink, it will rip it really fast if there is no compression. I want something that will do that to VOB.

Now, I can import the .m2ts file into my favourite DVD/Blu-ray authoring software, and convert to DVD that way, but this causes two problems. 1) I have to rip that .m2ts file to the hard drive first and 2) it doesn't retain chapter information, however, it doesn't re-encode uneccessarily.

Is there something that will rip a selected MPEG-2 title and just put it into a VOB container on the fly? The reason I am needing to do this incase anyone asks for a particular episode, rather than the fill BD of 4 or 5.

If I'm not being clear, I apologise and will try to answer any questions.

[Baldrick]

No.

[Dinsdale87]

Wow thanks alot for your help!

[Cornucopia]

What you're looking for is something that RIPS & ReWrap. That last part is the sticky part.

BD allows for SD and HD material. BD allows for MPEG2, VC-1 and AVC/h.264 video codecs and a number of audio codecs.
DVD allows for only SD material. DVD allows for MPEG2 (and MPEG1)-only video codecs and LPCM, AC3, MP2 and DTS audio codecs.

The chance that you BD source and your DVD output can match is VERY, VERY LOW. And matching is the only way you can do the ReWrap without having to Transcode/Re-encode.

DVDFab is probably your best bet. It is re-encoding, but NOT for "no reason".

Scott