Ripping a portion of a DVD

[pendulum79]

Hello everyone.

My aunt was on TV today and she asked me to record it on my DVD recorder so I could send it to her. It's recorded fine but the problem is how do i rip it?

I've only had a PC with a DVDRW for a few months and I've only burnt CDs with it so far and my old PC wasn't worth bothering messing with video; so I'm not particularly up on much of this. I'd want to send it to her in a codec she doesn't need to get for herself as I don't think her computer is particularly recent so the quality might need to trimmed?

Some stuff you may need to know: it's on a DVD+RW, LG GSA-4163 drive and I've got nero 7 but I'll download something else if I have to (as long as it's free).

**Edit:
I forgot to mention that I want to select a ~5 minute segment of the DVD, none of the rest of the stuff on it.

Many thanks for any help everyone

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

Why do you need to rip it? Does she not have a DVD player?

If you do need to rip, you have several options. One would be Nero Recode which is a great program in it of itself. However I would suggest Gordan Knot. Details on it here

 

[pendulum79]

Because she lives in London and I'm here in Birmingham.

And we need the DVD because there's shows on there I want to watch still

 

[Duvie]

What format do yuou want to send her?? Another DVD with just her part, or encode it into an mpeg4 type codec for email transfer???

I am not sure how the dvd-recorders do it, but do this make session or VOB breaks for each separate recordings?

 

[pendulum79]

I want to email the clip to her. Would mpeg4 be the best format in keeping the file size manageable?

There are 6 VOBs on the disc, video_ts.vob, which i guess is the menu screen and then 5 820MB vts_0x.vob files. and 6 titles appear in media player.

 

[sodcha0s]

Get DVD shrink, it's a free download.... it will rip the disk and you can edit with it also. You can re-arrange parts of the movie, or you can snip exactly what you want out of it, which seems to be what you're looking for.

This guide will show you all you need to know.

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

Originally posted by: pendulum79
I want to email the clip to her. Would mpeg4 be the best format in keeping the file size manageable?

How long is the clip?

 

[pendulum79]

4 minutes

I'm checking DVD shrink out atm sodcha0s, thank you. "snip exactly what you want out of it" was exactly what i was trying to say

This would be the 'reauthor' mode right?

 

[sodcha0s]

Yes.... I can't remember exactly how to do it but there was a timeline slider beneath the video window. Just drag from the beginning to the start of what you want, and then drag from the end to the end of what you want..... something like that...

If you go through the tutorials in the link I provided it will show you exactly how to do it.

 

[pendulum79]

Just thought I'd say thank you to everyone for their help.

For some reason I couldn't reauthor straight from the DVD+RW but it was fine if i backed the whole disc up to HDD and then reauthor from HDD. Gordian Knot confused the hell out of me but I found the 'GK for dummies' version, AutoGK .

It proved extremely useful learning how to do this as I was able to get videos of Pearl Jam on tv a few nights later

 

[Gstanfor]

I've just bought a new DVD recorder with inbuilt HDD that will end up replacing my current burner only recorder. However, I'm having trouble working with DVD's it produces. Things like DVD shrink etc tell me the discs VOB structure is illegal (don't have the problem with the older recorder). I'm wondering if it is to do with copy protection flags or something and how do I get around it, since I normally convert the recordings to XVID format to save space (both recorders can playback XVID/DIXV etc).