Ripping DVD's to .MKV format

[Lagamorph]

Ok, I'm looking for a program that can rip DVD's to .mkv format. I want to rip some of my anime DVD's, and I want to keep their dual-audio tracks, aswell as the subtitle tracks.
I don't want to rip the menu's or anything, just the actual episodes. Anybody know the sort of program(s) I'd need to do this? I'm hoping to keep the filesize at under 250MB

[unskinnyboy]

Use GordianKnot and select the output container as MKV.

If your audio tracks are in mp3, you can even use AVI as your container since AVI supports multiple audio streams (you will have to mux in the other audio streams using AVI-Mux GUI). But from a pure PC playback perspective, choose the audio as OGG and container MKV to keep the filesize small.

[Lagamorph]

Will I have to rip the Video, Audio and Subtitle tracks seperatly? Or will it rip them all at once as a single file? It's a single file at the end I'm wanting for each episode I rip from the DVD's

[unskinnyboy]

You can rip everything into a single file. Please refer the GordianKnot guide - http://www.doom9.org/gknot-main4.htm

[Lagamorph]

Hm...I can't see how the guide tells me how to rip a single file. It gets ver complicated and starts talking about using Robot4Rip to rip the entire DVD as an ISO file. Then in the Guardian Gnot file it refers to the .d2v file you created earlier, but doesn't tell me anything about creating one anywhere in the Guardian Gnot or Robot4Rip guide

Are there any guides for specifically creating .mkv files with multiple audio/subtitle tracks?

[unskinnyboy]

Those are the different steps you have to follow to get a final output file in avi/ogm/mkv format. Did you try following them? If so, please do.

You can also use AutoGK/Gordian Knot to just do the video, BeSweet to do the audio, SubRip/VobSub to create the subtitles and then mux them all using MKVMerge/VirtualDubMod/AVI-Mux GUI into a single mkv in the end.

I am afraid I don't have a comprehensive guide to point you to :-(. But a little bit of searching this forums should yield you many answers.

[niamh]

There is an extremely comprehensive and seemingly simple (I've never tried a full encode) french app called Ripp-it after me (http://www.ripp-it.com/) which does everything Gknot cannot do (as it's tied to vdub), and deals with a million codecs and a billion output formats, including mkv. Before you panic, you can actually change the language to english somewhere in options, though all help is probably in french :)

(edit: it seems they've set up some sort of payphone system to support the app, so to get it directly, you need to click on the very bottom link that says download in it << half hidden; you will need the mkvtoolnix they provide, too)

[Lagamorph]

There is an extremely comprehensive and seemingly simple (I've never tried a full encode) french app called Ripp-it after me (http://www.ripp-it.com/) which does everything Gknot cannot do (as it's tied to vdub), and deals with a million codecs and a billion output formats, including mkv. Before you panic, you can actually change the language to english somewhere in options, though all help is probably in french :)

(edit: it seems they've set up some sort of payphone system to support the app, so to get it directly, you need to click on the very bottom link that says download in it << half hidden; you will need the mkvtoolnix they provide, too)

Gah, the MKV tool link doesn't work ><

I'm still trying to get to grips with Gordian Knot aswell. The guide on the website is all over the place and seems to be missing large chunks as far as I can see.
Anybody know of any other tried and tested guides?

[edward]

WinMKV DVD Ripper: spam link removed
can Rip DVD to MKV and keep audio subtitle

[setarip_old]

@edward

Hi!

I was wondering if you were aware that you've responded to a thread that was started and last posted to over 2 years ago?

[wmansir]

I'm going to lock this. It's off topic for this subforum and too old/outdated to bother moving to the correct forum.

[blutach]

And undoubtedly SPAM - link removed.

Regards