is there an easy (free) way of ripping dvd's to .mp4? The only place I've found that has a tutorial to convert with freeware required like 9 downloads and the soul of my first born...

thanks

I have ripped most of my DVDs to play on my ipod Video. However since I use a Mac I don't think I can be much help. I would imagine any Ripping software would work in some way shape or form.

yah, it seems that every piece of software I can find out there either only allows you to rip the first 5min of each file or stick a watermark on the damn screen.

Doom9 is a pretty good resource. I know it is quite possible to rip DVDs for free with no watermarks. Definitely done it. Though I lost all my links on how to do it. Gordian Knot is a program you'll definitely want to look into.

Alaan fucked around with this message on 06-13-2006 at 03:59 PM.

This might work.

ok so i decrypted my dvd with dvdFab, merged the .vob files into one and then tried to use Videora to make an .mp4 but when i click transcode it only takes about 2 seconds and the output file is 0kb.

I checked the debug console and it says...

quote:

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*** Queue Empty
*** Transcoding: C:\Documents and Settings\Caleb Downing\Desktop\ipod dvd\Good Morning Vietnam\DVD\VIDEO_TS\Good Morning Vietnam.vob
### C:\Program Files\VideoraiPodConverter\apps\ffmpeg.exe -y -maxfr 30 -i "C:\Documents and Settings\Caleb Downing\Desktop\ipod dvd\Good Morning Vietnam\DVD\VIDEO_TS\Good Morning Vietnam.vob" -title "Good Morning Vietnam" -timestamp "2006-06-13 03:57:40" -bitexact -vol 256 -vcodec xvid -s 320x240 -b 768 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 64 -f mp4 "C:\Program Files\VideoraiPodConverter\Videos\Good Morning Vietnam.mp4"

ffmpeg version CVS, build 4759, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --disable-ffplay --enable-small --enable-memalign-hack --enable-gpl --enable-xvid --enable-dts --enable-a52 --disable-vhook --enable-pthread --enable-x264
built on Nov 7 2005 09:41:59, gcc: 3.4.4 (cygming special) (gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)
Input #0, mpeg, from 'C:\Documents and Settings\Caleb Downing\Desktop\ipod dvd\Good Morning Vietnam\DVD\VIDEO_TS\Good Morning Vietnam.vob':
Duration: N/A, start: 0.500500, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, 29.97 fps, 9800 kb/s
Stream #0.1[0x20]: Subtitle: dvdsub
Stream #0.2[0x80]: Audio: ac3
Output #0, mp4, to 'C:\Program Files\VideoraiPodConverter\Videos\Good Morning Vietnam.mp4':
Stream #0.0: Video: xvid, yuv420p, 320x240, 29.97 fps, q=2-31, 768 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 64 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.2 -> #0.1
[aac @ 0x6a5e38]libfaac doesn't support this output format!
Error while opening codec for output stream #0.1 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height

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anyone know what's up?