Hi there, Forgive me if this isn't the appropriate forum for this, I couldn't work out which one would be best! I work at a Music School, and every so often our students have to do live performances for assessment. The live performances are recorded on to DVD, and the DVDs are ripped to ISO's (Using DVDShrink) and uploaded to a server (Generally, each session goes on to it's own DVD, but individual bands are broken up by chapter. The discs are not encrypted). This server then synchronises across to certain lab computers which can be used by students to make DVD copies of their performances if they wish, or they can mount the DVD using Virtual CloneDrive and watch it. We have been using this approach for a couple of years now, and it has worked out mostly okay except for a few issues: - The ISO's are rather large and so storing them, backing them up and shifting them over the network can be difficult. - Some students only want to burn their own performance on to a DVD, we can demonstrate to them how to do this on DVDShrink but it is a hassle to do. - Some students would prefer the video in a standard file, so they can save to their pendrive or upload to Youtube if they wish. I was after advice and feedback about how we can improve our setup. I was thinking it might be good if we had some way of ripping the DVD into separate AVIs or another format for each Chapter (Note, quality is not high to begin with so some degradation won't hurt) and some way of easily burning the resulting AVIs back to Discs. Thanks in advance, Erik
If you want to rip the DVDs by chapter use the old DVD Decrypter. Choose 'Mode' > 'IFO', opt to split the PGC by chapter and save to a folder. Each chapter is saved as a VOB file. Convert each chapter to avi using AutoGK - convert a bunch of chapters as a batch. Run AGK and load the first VOB. Choose an output file name. Select a custom file size for the output then 'Add Job'. Keep adding new jobs, check the ones you want to convert then 'Start' http://www.videohelp.com/tools/DVD_Decrypter http://www.videohelp.com/tools/AutoGK
And if you want a free tool that can read the ISOs and allow simple edits (like cutting out all the parts you don't want)and re-encode to AVI, MPEG4, MKV, etc. in a variety of codecs, try AVIDeMux.
