Ripping DVD to Avi like MakeMKV, without conversion

[QbertQwerty]

Hi There, sorry I'm a bit of a noob, but I've used make MKV and I love the fact it creates a very fast rip of a DVD, in about 10-12 minutes. I know its a large file because nothing is compressed/recoded, but I don't mind the large file. I think the videa is the same MPEG 2 video, in an mkv container.

My DVD player has USB support but only for avi, not mkv. I find ripping a dvd to an avi with XVID/DivX etc takes too long, but every program I've tried always wants to reencode the audio and video streams. Is there a program which works like makeMKV, and just dumps the same audio and video into an avi container without recoding it? I've looked at using programs to extarct the video/audio from the finsihed mkv, and then place that back into another container, but it seems quite time consuming, and the the mai thing I want is just an avi that rips veyr quickly.

Thanks for any help you can give me

[Baldrick]

Nope. Your dvd player only supports avi with divx/xvid so you must reconvert.

[QbertQwerty]

Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. I tried simply renaming the file and trying it and when I renamed it .mpeg, the video came out on the player, although a little choppy, and withotu sound. I think my player supports the video format within the mkv container.
Is it possible to rip the DVD to a single MPEG 2 instead? Would this be quite quick? Thanks

[Ai Haibara]

VOB2MPEG might be what you're looking for.

[Baldrick]

Yep, try vob2mpg.

[cal_tony]

Xmedia Recode will convert a mpeg 2 MKV to an MP4 just a few minutes if you check the video copy box.

This enables me to play the video on my DVD player that does not have mkv support.
Tony