Free software to take video clips off of DVDs

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-08-17 12:21am

Firstly, are there any free ones? I'll ask other questions should this be true.

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2003-08-17 01:38am

There's the Gordian Knot rippack. You can find it, and several other similar programs, at Doom9.org . I've been using GK to extract anime and TV openings off discs in my DVD collection.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-17 02:04am

Gordian Knot uses DVD Decrypter to actually decrypt and/or demux the DVD datastream. Once that's done you can fire up a program that supports MPEG2 compression to find the relevent parts.

Lord_Xerxes · Post by **Lord_Xerxes** » 2003-08-17 02:26am

Well, that being said, I'm curious if anyone knows of a free prog that would let you make your own music vidoes with 'em. (IE, take a clip from a particular show/movie, take away the sound, and allow you to imput your own sounds/music)

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-17 03:10pm

There's some basic tools like Windows Movie Maker and Apple's iMovie. Anything more sophisticated will cost you money.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-08-17 06:20pm

Lord_Xerxes wrote:Well, that being said, I'm curious if anyone knows of a free prog that would let you make your own music vidoes with 'em. (IE, take a clip from a particular show/movie, take away the sound, and allow you to imput your own sounds/music)

Look for something called "Virtual Dub." It's free.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-08-17 06:22pm

Datana wrote:There's the Gordian Knot rippack. You can find it, and several other similar programs, at Doom9.org . I've been using GK to extract anime and TV openings off discs in my DVD collection.

Ok then, I'll check it out.

Gordian Knot uses DVD Decrypter to actually decrypt and/or demux the DVD datastream. Once that's done you can fire up a program that supports MPEG2 compression to find the relevent parts.

Thanky.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-08-17 06:24pm

StarshipTitanic wrote:
Lord_Xerxes wrote:Well, that being said, I'm curious if anyone knows of a free prog that would let you make your own music vidoes with 'em. (IE, take a clip from a particular show/movie, take away the sound, and allow you to imput your own sounds/music)
Look for something called "Virtual Dub." It's free.

VirtualDub is garbage for doing any sort of video editing.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-17 06:44pm

Yes. VirtualDub is best used for adding in an audio track or doing some postprocessing, but for editing it's wretched. (And hell, AVISYNTH is usually better for doing image processing jobs).

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-08-17 08:49pm

Dalton wrote:
StarshipTitanic wrote:
Lord_Xerxes wrote:Well, that being said, I'm curious if anyone knows of a free prog that would let you make your own music vidoes with 'em. (IE, take a clip from a particular show/movie, take away the sound, and allow you to imput your own sounds/music)
Look for something called "Virtual Dub." It's free.
VirtualDub is garbage for doing any sort of video editing.

Which doesn't sound like what he's trying to do. He didn't mention putting together any clips.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-08-18 02:21am

Ok now, I downloaded a rippack from that website and I have the choice to encode in DivX 3.11 (beta, it seems), DivX 5, or XviD. Which is the highest quality?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-08-18 02:40am

StarshipTitanic wrote:Ok now, I downloaded a rippack from that website and I have the choice to encode in DivX 3.11 (beta, it seems), DivX 5, or XviD. Which is the highest quality?

Divx5, with Lame MP3 for the audio.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-08-18 03:07am

Darth Wong wrote:
StarshipTitanic wrote:Ok now, I downloaded a rippack from that website and I have the choice to encode in DivX 3.11 (beta, it seems), DivX 5, or XviD. Which is the highest quality?
Divx5, with Lame MP3 for the audio.

Ok, thanks.

Lord_Xerxes · Post by **Lord_Xerxes** » 2003-08-18 09:09am

StarshipTitanic wrote:
Dalton wrote:
StarshipTitanic wrote: Look for something called "Virtual Dub." It's free.
VirtualDub is garbage for doing any sort of video editing.
Which doesn't sound like what he's trying to do. He didn't mention putting together any clips.

Well. heh. I suppose that takes me into another problem then. I thought I might be able to use the clips from the earlier program, but I suppose you can't rearrange them or merge them together?

Alright, so perhaps I should better phrase my questions. If I have the above mentioned program to take clips from DVDs, which would be the best preferable programs to rearrange the clips, merge them into one video, and which would be the best to program that I could edit the audio in or out, to add in my own music?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-18 01:56pm

You need a real video editor for that. AFAIK, no free program like VirtualDub can do that, unless you like pain.

As for MP3 audio in an AVI, it usually works well, but if you use VBR encoding then you're running out of spec.

Lord_Xerxes · Post by **Lord_Xerxes** » 2003-08-19 11:37am

Hmm, thanks phong. It's just that I've seen a lot of music videos out right now (like on KaZaa) that people made. And sometimes they're pretty good, other times they're kinda meh quality wise. but you find alot of that stuff with Anime and Final Fantasy videos for songs like Evanescence's "Bring me to life." So I figured somewhere out there there's got to be the editor's that can do that.