On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Colin Brace wrote: > On 1/25/07, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <nigde@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I am looking for a reliable way of ripping a DVD onto hard drive. > > I have tried to use mencoder and transcode with and without GUIs, > > but I get rather mixed results (mostly video is fine, but the > > sound is all jumbled). The re-encoding is not a requirement, I can > > keep the original VOBs as long as there is some way to rip and use > > subtitles. I have tried and tried and to no avail. > > I have had good results with dvdrip, including producing .srt subtitle files: is there a utility i can use to rip *excerpts* from a DVD based on watching in real-time, then moving frame by frame to where i want, and starting the rip until i tell it to stop, and dumping that into an AVI file? i've used menconder but that requires putting in the start and end time, and i'd *really* like to do this on the fly, based on visual cues. rday
