Trying to rip a scene from a DVD, questions

[Cyber Akuma]

Most of the guides I saw on this site seem to just give basics on how to setup a computer or how a DVD works, I already know most of this stuff.

I want to rip a single scene from a DVD, not the entire movie (it is one of the extras on the DVD, not a scene from the middle of the movie).

How would I even find this scene?

And should I crop the top and bottom black borders? (Woulden't the video play non-fullscreen on a widescreen display if the borders are still present?) If so, I assume these are a standard reoslution right? How many pixels form the top and bottom should I set virtualdub to crop it?

I asked what I should do after ripping the DVD on IRC channels but everyone kept telling me different programs to use and were fighting over each other about what to do, many were complaning I should use nothing but notepad and write every AVS script form scratch (I don't know anywhere near enough AVS to do that!).

So what tools should I do to rip this scene? I am not going to be adding multiple audio tracks or soft subtitles or anything, I just want to rip a 5 minute bonus scene from the DVD.

[Cyber Akuma]

Hmmm, actually, it seems that I can't even rip it with DVD Decrypter.

Any ideas?

[stax76]

You can rip it with DVDFab HD Decrypter, when done extract the scene with DVD Shrink and then encode with AutoGK to XviD or RipBot264 to x264.

[Cyber Akuma]

I just need to know how to rip the scene and load it into my encoder of choice, I prefer to encode videos on my own, not use automatic tools when possible.

[stax76]

If DVDFab HD Decrypter don't work for you then try AnyDVD combined with DVD Decrypter. It seems you know very little about encoding so using a automated tool would be a natural choice.

[Cyber Akuma]

If DVDFab HD Decrypter don't work for you then try AnyDVD combined with DVD Decrypter. It seems you know very little about encoding so using a automated tool would be a natural choice.

I have a few years expirence encoding AVI files actually, and evne off DVDs I recorded myself. I just haven't had much expirence with other's DVDs or AVS.

[Guest]

Load the VOB into DGIndex. Select your scene with the [ and ] buttons. Proceed as usual to save your project and serve the video.

[Ghitulescu]

Every little thing that's a video should be in a VOB file, that includes the menus and stuff.

Load each VOB in VLC for instance and scroll it at 8x. Start first with the VOBs not belonging to the main movie. If you still can't find the scene then load the VOBs of the main movie starting from the end - some EU producers attach extras to the main movies.

Should you find the scene load the VOB into a MPEG cutter of choice, bearing in mind that some of them actually default to the first language found should there be more than one, and some can only cut at GOP boundaries.