aggravating issues with VLC are making me want to smash my computer

[DaneClark]

I am trying to rip with VLC because it is the ONLY ripping software that is capable of not giving me hideous jagged artifacts on SD Cartoon DVDs. Every Time I try to rip it shows a timer that says "--:--" instead of the timer that counts upward that it shows whenever it is ripping. I've tried restarting my computer , I've tried turning off hardware accelerated decoding, and I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling VLC but none of these have solved the issue. It was working earlier today and started doing this very abrubtly after no settings had been changed. I have been trying to get it to rip again for hours to no avail. And even when it was working, when I had "display the output" checked it showed that it was going through every episode on the disc instead of just the one episode I had asked it to ripped. I was never able to complete a rip because every time the second episode started I canceled the rip to see if I could get it rip just the one episode I wanted. Someone PLEASE help, I NEEEEEED a ripper that won't give me those hideous jagged deinterlace artifacts.

[davexnet]

Are you trying to encode episodes using VLC by accessing the optical disk?
The reason I ask is because of the word "rip".

Usually in the forum it's taken to mean extract the data from the optical disk and copy it as-is (after removing the copy protection) to the HDD/SSD.

Why don't you use Makemkv to rip to individual episodes then use dedicated encoder software for your conversion?

The issues you're seeing are with your workflow

[DaneClark]

Are you trying to encode episodes using VLC by accessing the optical disk?
The reason I ask is because of the word "rip".

Usually in the forum it's taken to mean extract the data from the optical disk and copy it as-is (after removing the copy protection) to the HDD/SSD.

Why don't you use Makemkv to rip to individual episodes then use dedicated encoder software for your conversion?

The issues you're seeing are with your workflow

by "rip" i just mean any method of converting a title on a disc into a video file that's saved on my computer.

Makemkv always gives me the jagged artifacts I don't want when I use it to convert the titles into .mkv files, and wouldn't those artifacts be hard-baked into them after that?

[davexnet]

Makemkv does not "convert". It copies over the mpeg-2 data as-is
and formats it into an mkv file. The video data should be perfectly intact;
No issues should be "baked in" at this stage
However further conversion from that source can cause the combing
you're referring to if done incorrectly.

[jagabo]

Handbrake has IVTC filters -- what's needed for the samples you posted in another thread. You could learn AviSynth or VapourSynth and have the ultimate filtering system for your conversions. Or use Hybrid, a GUI front end for Avi/Vapour/synth.