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Create a DVD Tutorial. Part 3

This post begins from from here: Create a DVD tutorial in case you are lost.

In this post series I talk about mastering a DVD from various DVD sources.

This post talks about using DVD Decryper to rip a DVD’s tracks to the computer.

Step 2 Using DVD Decrypter to rip the tracks.

If you haven’t done so already, download DVD Decrypter (http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/) Even though it says that development has stopped, the download file is still available.

To get the selected DVD tracks on to the hard drive, I used this software on each DVD. When I loaded in a DVD, it listed the tracks at the right of the screen with tick boxes to select which tracks and chapters you wanted to copy. A track contains many chapters and its impossible to see how long each chapter is using this software. It is possible to rip by chapter, but because I didnt know which ones to tick, I just selected them all from one track.

The next step is to choose the destination folder. This is shown on the left part of the window (see the picture) and there is a small folder icon to select a folder to save to. In this case I just put it to C:\Temp folder.

The next step is to click the big DVD/Hard drive icon at the bottom left. This starts the program with the settings given. The bottom snapshot shows what the window now looks like. It rips the selected DVD tracks to file. This process takes a few minutes, and at the end you will have files in the C:\Temp folder. These are the ripped dvd videos.

There are lots of settings to be played about with in this program but I found just doing the simple actions of choosing what to rip, where to put it and click to start was all the options I needed for this purpose. If you feel adventureous you could have a look in all the menus and see what tweaks can be done.

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Create a DVD Tutorial. Part 2

This post begins from from here: Create a DVD tutorial in case you are lost.

In this post series I talk about mastering a DVD from various DVD sources.

This post talks about using VLC to view a DVD.

Step 1. Find what to rip

Amanda and I watched all 3 DVDs to find out what tracks she wanted to have in her own DVD. The following selections were made:

DVD 1, track 2

DVD 2, track 2 from start till 09:21

DVD 3, track 2 from 8:00 until the end.

I used software called VLC to view the DVD on the computer and see what I needed to get. VLC is a freeware media player for Windows and Linux (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) I’d highly recommend using this as a default media player for anything, as it can handle just about any media file. It also changes the screen ratio size, can do subtitles, multi audio tracks and loads of other things. I prefer this one to others in that its a very small and quick player (much much quicker and smaller than Microsoft’s Windows Media Player) To play a dvd, click media->open disk and select the DVD drive. This will play the menu of the DVD and you can select the options, or use track skip to select the DVD scenes.

The standard play, track change and volume controls are available at the bottom of the window. The time elapsed is also available to find the times to start the video from. I use this as my standard media player, not just for looking at DVDs. Its features, effeciency, compatibility and ease of use is hard to beat.

In the next part I will talk about step 2, ripping the selected tracks to the computer using DVD Decrypter

DVDtutorial 01 VLC

DVDtutorial 01 VLC

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