extracting video from DVD

dvideo wrote on 2/28/2005, 9:27 AM

Is it possible to extract video from a DVD containing video and audio ts folders? I'd like to convert the information on the DVD to avi files and am wondering the best way to go about doing this. Does DVD Architect/vegas allow you to do this? Any other programs?
Thanks.

Comments

corug7 wrote on 2/28/2005, 9:35 AM

Just digitize a quality analog signal from your DVD player into Vegas using your camera or a standalone digitizer. You may lose a little quality, but it will save you the hassle of hacking VOB files and messing around with MPEG-2. If you use an S-video signal, you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who will even notice.

mdopp wrote on 2/28/2005, 11:03 AM

Use VOBEdit to demux the various video and audio streams.
Dolby Digital sound files (*.ac3) cannot be imported directly into the Vegas Video timeline. Use BeSweet to demux multichannel audio into different wav-files.
Do a google search to find download sites.

johnmeyer wrote on 2/28/2005, 12:35 PM

VOB files

Straight path for reauthoring

Extracting Video from a DVD image

fultro wrote on 2/28/2005, 4:33 PM

all of these suggestions work but I have found that if you don't need to demux (separate the audio, video, subtitle streams) just open the VOB in VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod - free apps that are easy and fast -- these will save out to an . avi for you

ken c wrote on 2/28/2005, 4:47 PM

I wish I had a dollar for every post about how to extract DVDs that's been made in this forum over the last 6 months, I could buy another nice watch..

Ken

johnmeyer wrote on 2/28/2005, 6:57 PM

I've been after SoFo (remember them?) and Sony for several years to add this. We're all making hundreds of DVDs, and the source tapes are not always handy, or may only contain the original source footage. It sure would be great to be able to "cut and paste" from existing DVDs. It would save a lot of time, and for projects where you truly just need to use existing footage, unaltered, there would be no quality degradation.

I happen to do this a lot, so it has always been a hot button for me.

randy-stewart wrote on 2/28/2005, 8:25 PM

I second that JR. Used your method last week to pull a wedding vid off of a DVD done last year that I didn't have the source footage on any longer. Worked great. You can see the resulting Windows Media File on my samples page here: http://www.cr-home-videos.com/samplevideos.html . Scroll down to Craig and Mickey's Wedding. Came out pretty well even encoding at 256K. Thanks for sharing the technique and, congrats on the book review.
Randy

patrickharris wrote on 3/1/2005, 2:17 AM

I wish I could edit mpeg 2 files in Vegas without having to re-encode the result (with the subsequent loss of quality).
I wonder if we will ever get this feature. Premiere can do it.