Rip DVD tracks/chapters to seperate files for random play

[navelman978]

Greetings,

I'm fairly new at this and really only farmiliar with DVDShrink and DVDDecypter.

I am trying to figure out the shortest procedure to take my sons cartoons all on DVD, "rip" (if thats the right word), them to my hardrive so that each track is a seperate file (avi, mpeg, divx, whatever), so I can then load them into a media player of some kind (suggestions welcome!), and random play them.

I have about 30 DVD's worth to process so short and sweet would be great.

Thanks,

navelman978

[CWR03]

So far no one's come up with a way to batch rip in .IFO mode, which is what you need to get individual episodes from the disk. You can do it manually, which requires that you select each PGC and click Start. Once that's done you can use Windows Media Player (for example) and create a playlist with those files, which you can set to random play.

[chris010586]

I did something similar, i used a programme called Apollo#1 DVD ripper which will rip individual episodes on a disc to avi, i also used Xvid to encode them (works within #dvd ripper) at 1500kbps which shrinks each episode (22 mins) to around 275 meg per episode, the quality is slightly reduced but not badly. Once the episodes are on your hard drive you can open them up in windows media player (or another programme) and set it up to random play.

Theres probrably a better way of doing it because im not really an expert at this but it works.