How to Rip DVD's with VLC

A step-by-step guide on how to extract and convert the files from a DVD to mpeg or other formats using the Videolan VLC media player for the use of uploading them to YouTube, for example.

1. Open up VLC and click the open button (it’s the leftmost one). From the dialog box that appears select Disc and then DVD. Enter the letter of your DVD-ROM drive (or /dev/hdc in my case in Linux) in the device name box, and 0 in the title box. Click OK to see if that’s what you want to rip. If it is, click the stream/save box and then settings. Otherwise, change the title to 1 and then keep increasing the number until you find the one you want. It might take a little bit, some DVDs have the main video as late as title 15.
2. Open the settings box and uncheck the “play locally” box if it’s checked (unless you want to watch it at the same time it’s ripping) and check the file, video, and audio boxes. Select where you’re going to save your movie (save it as a .mpg, like movie.mpg) by hitting browse and then navigating to the folder where you want to save it and typing moviename.mpg in the name box. Select mp1v for the video codec and mp3 for the audio, 1024k is usually a good size and produces a nice balance between size and quality.
3. Click OK, and OK again. VLC should start transcoding the disc to your hard drive, where you can watch it. You can watch the ripped files in any media player.

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