menu ripping

[mboynton]

I was wondering if there was anyway to rip the menu off of the dvd? The buttons dont need to work, I just want the motion and to have it look like the original. I can get it to my hard drive but it still is in .vob form, and I need it in m2v and ac3. Thanks in advance.

[mboynton]

ok i kinda figured out some stuff on this. Ill use smartripper to jus take the menu vob off the disk. Then I can use voberator to demux that file into an m2v and ac3. But that file has all the menus in it so i need to be able to cut and splice from that video file. Any suggestions for a program to do this with. Also I need to be able to make screen shots. Since spruce up wont accept motion menus what I planned to do was use the first part of the motion menu as the first play video and then use a screen shot of the last frame as the menu. Any help or suggestions would be great. Thanks again

[mboynton]

sorry not voberator , vobedit

[hitch]

Hi there,

I'm assuming you want to burn as SVCD. If so see below, otherwise Ulead DVD Workshop is a great program for menu creation and is very flexible.

To split the VOB menu file you ripped do the following:

Use vstrip to rip the menu vob file and make sure to rip by cell id! You can probably do this from the file you already ripped, but it's simpler to just re-rip the menu with vstrip if you still have the DVD. This will create individual menu*.vob files for each of the stills, transitions, and sequeneces that make up a DVD menu.

You can then edit and convert the menu vobs with various tools (DVD2AVI, avisynth, tmpgenc, besweet, bbmpeg, image editor) and author using VCDEasy if you're making SVCD.

Actually there is also a method I read somewhere around here for using DVD Workshop to create the menu and copying the temporary menu files it creates to the harddrive that you can the use VCDEasy to make an SVCD and skip all the excruciating steps above. If I remember where I saw it, I'll post it.