How to rip DVD TO MP4/AVI/MKV with Original DVD Menu's Intact

[orfel]

Hi, newbie's first post. How do we rip a dvd to mp4/avi/mkv with the original dvd's menu intact. My aim is to transfer the "dvd movie" to the computer so that my kid won't have to operate the standalone dvd player. She will just have to just click a shortcut to choose what dvd to play and still have the option to choose just as what the original dvd starts with menu option. h

[Baldrick]

It's not possible. mp4/mkv/avi doesn't support any dvd menus.

But you can rip to an iso. And play it with VLC media player and the menu will work.

[transporterfan]

The way I accomplished something similar was to rip the entire dvd to a folder, locate the VIDEO_TS.IFO file and make a shortcut.
Once you have the shortcut, rename it to the name of the DVD title and put it in another folder called 'DVD Index' on the desktop.
Depending on which software player you have associated to play DVDs (I use MPC-HC) I can right-click and 'Play with MPC' or just double-click to run the title. You wont get a thumbnail but you will get a nice A-Z sorted index courtesy of Windows indexer.
It plays just the same as the original DVD.

[olyteddy]

+1 on the ISO route. I have type ISO associated with Virtual Clone Drive (to mount them) and 'DVD Movie' associated to MPCHC to play it.