First answer posted by SallyWhittaker at 08/25/2011 01:59
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SallyWhittaker
VLC 0.9.6 and higher version:
Open DVD. Go to the Media menu and choose Convert/Save. Then pick the Disc tab and adjust the Starting Position to the proper Title/Chapter. (You can find the proper Title/Chapter by viewing the disc with Media/Open Disc first.) Click Convert/Save.
Enter file name and start ripping. Check File and enter a file name ending in .mpg. Click Save. It will take a while.
Old VLC:
Open the DVD. Open up VLC and go to File. Select Open Disc... A dialog box should appear. Go to the Disc tab. Under the field Disc Type, select DVD (not DVD (Menus)). Enter the letter of your DVD-ROM drive in the device name box, and 0 in the title box. Click OK to see if that’s what you want to rip. If you only have one optical drive this should already be correctly set.
Ripping the Disc. If it is the one you want, select the Open Disc... option from the File menu again. At the bottom of the dialog, there should be an Advanced Optionsfield. Select Stream/Save.
Changing settings. Next to the Stream/Save button there should be a Settings button. Click it. Uncheck the Play Locally button if it is already checked (this will stop it playing as it rips). Below this there should be a check box with File next to it. Check this, and in the browse field next to that choose where you want to save the file to. When naming your file, remember to add the file extension such as .m4v to the end, so that it saves as an h.264 MPEG 10 video file. Below the File box there is a field labeled Encapsulation method, select MP4. Underneath that should be another box called Transcoding Options. In this select MP4V for Video Codec and MP4A for AudioCodec. Click OK, and then OK again on the next box. VLC will begin ripping the disc to your Hard Drive.
Open VLC Media Player and go to Media > Open Disc. Make sure that DVD is selected and Disc Device is pointing to the DVD drive.
Click Play to check if its the DVD/video that you want to rip. If not, change Title value to 1 or the next number until you find the right video.
Now that you have the right video, go to Media > Convert/Save.
Click on the Disc tab and click on Convert/Save. Under Destination, select the folder or location where you want to save the file and type in the title of the file. Make sure you type in the correct file extension – “.ogg” or “.mp4″.
Under Settings > Profile, select Video – MPEG-4 + AAC (MP4) if you want to play it on your iPod/iPhone or Video – Theory + FLAC (OGG) if you want lossless audio.
You can edit the Profile settings by clicking on the button beside the profile options.
When you’re satisfied with the settings, start the ripping process by clicking on Start.
Wait until VLC is done ripping the DVD and that’s it.
Yeah, i'm great that vlc is great in both playing videos and ripping dvds. But VLC won't support the DVD with internal encryption, which has restricted its capability of processing the DVDs.