I want to rip just the main movie from my DVDs, store it on the HD for streaming to my PS3, and then be able to burn a DVD with the main movie when needed.
It seemed simple but not so. On DVDDecrypter you can put it in IFO mode and it selects the main movie, however the output, while it can be streamed, cannot be burned since there isn't a proper structure to burn a DVD with, you get an error there no VIDEO_TS.IFO and if I copy the only IFO to that name, it doesn't work. You can also use file mode and select Main Movie and all IFOs and that will work, but then you have all these unecessary IFOs for VOBs that aren't there. Tried pointing DVDFab to the folder with the IFO and VOBs and it didn't recognize it, probably because no valid VIDEO_TS.IFO also.
The best solution I've found is the AnyDVD+CloneDVD2 setup. It is the cleanest and quickest. Can rip a main movie in 6-9 minutes. It automatically selects the main movie, removes subtitles and foreign language tracks, etc. But it is expensive!
DVDShrink will rip and reauthor but it doesn't decrypt. I don't want to have to run a separate decryption process.
DVDFab is about 50% slower than CloneDVD2 and it outputs the files to its own crazy subfolder organization ../main movie/title/video_ts so I have to go clean it up and move the files to the correct folder.
Doesn't CloneDVD also strip copy protections so you wouldn'tneed AnyDVD?
Anyway, either you pay for the software and do one step or you use DVDFab to rip (and bug them on their forums to stop using that pointless subdir structure, if enough people do this they finally might) and Shrink to encode which is an acceptable 2-ste-process to me..
I don't see how DVDFab putting movie files in a simple folder structure is crazy or complicated. The only (miniscule) irritation is where a dvd isn't recognised and ends up with a nonsensical name or 'DVDVOLUME' or whatever. This is the actual dvd label though, and a few seconds renaming that folder name after DVFDab has finished is all that's required, or you can rename the destination folder during the ripping process.
I very very rarely ever use DVD Shrink anymore as i use DVD Rebuilder for 95%+ of my movies however regardless of program, DVFDab's folder structure works very well. Each to their own.
I personally consider it a nuisance, that DVDfab creates two more folders (volumename, video_ts) in my target folder instead of just putting VOBs/ISOs there as other programs do.
