Don't you hate it when you commissioned someone to video tape an event and all they give you is a DVD copy of the event. What if you wanted your friends and relatives to watch this video, do you give each one of them a DVD copy? Or what if you want to store it on your handheld devices like mobile phone or PSP? Or as is most likely the case, you just want to post it on Youtube and share it? What do you do? No can do?
I mean, it's your wedding day or your first childs' baptismal or any of those special events, you definitely want someone professional to do it right? You'd even be glad to pay for it. But then, you'd also want to share the finish product with as many friends/relatives/colleagues as you can.
I suppose these folks also want to protect their intellectual property rights, and I don't begrudge them that (never mind those DVD movies you legally paid for). But since it's a personal video of you/your friends/relatives, and that you're paying for it, then it's only fair that you should be able to ask for a mpeg/avi file version of it that you can easily distribute to others.
Hehe, I'm so emo, I don't even know why I'm so work up over DVD movies when ripping them is dead easy, if you have the right tool that is. Eniways, here's how you would rip your DVD movies.
Step 1: Log in as root and run the following command:
# yum -y install dvdrip ffmpeg
Step 2: As regular user, type the following from the command line:
$ rpm -q dvdrip ffmpeg
$ dvdrip &
Note: The first time you run the dvdrip utility, it will prompt you to set your preferences.
Step 3: Notice the red highlighted text that says ".../dvdrip-data not found: NOT OK"? Well, you need create this directory. The quickest would be jump back in to your command-line prompt and type the following:
$ mkdir ~/dvdrip-data
Restart your dvdrip app and you should now get the following window image:
There's a number of settings you can fine-tuned but for now stick with the default. It works fine.
Step 4: Now you need to create a new project.
- In menu, click File->New Project. Type your project name, in my case it's skydiving. The rest of text field (ie. VOB directory, AVI directory, etc) will be automatically filled up.
You should now get this window:
Don't forget to click on the "+ Create project" button.
Step 5: In the section "Choose a ripping mode", make sure that you check "Copy data from DVD to hard disk before encoding".
Step 6: You should now go to the tab "RIP Title".
- In this tab, there's a button called "Read DVD Table of Contents", click this button to scan the files in your DVD.
- Once it finished scanning, below that, there should be a button called "RIP Selected Titles(s)/Chapter(s)". Click that button.
Step 7: Rip 'em boy!
- Click on the "Transcode" Tab
- Now, there's probably hundred of buttons and settings here that you can tuned and play around with. But only one setting is of really practical use to us. That's the "Container Options" which is already set to AVI container which is almost always what you want since this probably the de-facto video format in computers.
- Find the 'Operate' section and then click on the "Transcode" button. And off you go!
That's it. Now wait and sit back as this might take a while depending on how large DVD movie is and how fast your computer is.
Step 7: The avi file that you rip from your DVD should be in your ~/dvdrip-data/project-name/avi/ directory. Where the 'project-name' is that name you used during the initial setup.
Success!!
Use your VLC, Mplayer, Totem Movie Player, or even Xine to watch your newly ripped avi file.
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