DVD to mpg (or so)?

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cmmehl · #1 Post by **cmmehl** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:06 am

Howdy experts,

I am looking for a portable prog that can rip a DVD to an avi, mpg or other smaller file. The portable progs available here serve at best to copy a DVD, so there's a need to burn the output again to a disc.

I'd rather have something that produces a file I can also save on and play off my stick. Until I get one of those marvelous new 8GB stick, an entire DVD is out of question ... besides, one would need a drive-emulator to play it off the stick, and I know of none that runs without admin-rights.

Understand my dilemma? Got an idea?

Cheers
Chris

teobromina · #2 Post by **teobromina** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:28 pm

I am currently making trials with 'simpledivx'. You may extract the clips from VOB files in the languaje track you want, reduce the size of the final image, etc...

http://www.simpledivx.org/main/index.ph ... elect&id=2

Maybe is the tool you need. It runs from pendrive and from CDRom as well. To make it portable use 'UniversalExtractor'

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Compressio ... ctor.shtml .

*JT.

Zach Thibeau · #3 Post by **Zach Thibeau** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:04 am

Even Just using Universal Extractor isn't going to make it portable. You would need some kind of wrapper like an nsis wrapper (which I commenly use)

portackager · #4 Post by **portackager** » Fri May 04, 2007 7:59 am

Hi..

Maybe this will help: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/108963

Well VOB files are Basicly just Mpeg2 files so if you can use the Mpeg2 format for your presentations then you don"t have to convert them at all just cut out the scenes you want and asve them with a Mpeg extention...
There are a Few Vob/Mpeg2 cutters that are freeware like "Chopper XP" or "Mpeg2Cut" ..You can find them both if you do a Google search....

You can also use DVD2AVI to convert the files to AVI or better yet you can use "Virtual-Dub-Mpeg2" which you can download here:

Virtual-Dub-Mpeg2
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stab ... -MPEG2.zip

Also download and install this:

AC3ACM Decompressor
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM/AC3ACM.zip

That makes it to Virtual-Dub can read the audio in VOB files....

Cheers

theres also bitripper, http://bitripper.com/
on the fly dvd to avi conversion

chezduong · #5 Post by **chezduong** » Fri May 04, 2007 12:50 pm

Try FairUse Wizard 2.5 LE (google it). It is free. I leaves 3 registry entries and one file somewhere on C:\, but it works portably from one machine to another. You can extract subtitles and 2 language files. XviD is supported natively -- you do not have to install the codec. Encoding is done in 2 passes with the option to encode the credits at lower resolution. You might have to install and the copy to USB drive, but it works very well.

There is just one limitation. You are limited to making DivX or XviD's that are 700 MB or less. If you want more, you have to pay.