VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a portable, free and open-source, cross-platform media player and streaming media server written by the VideoLAN project. It is a well-known multimedia player capable of playing various video files, DVDs, CDs, VCDs and even streaming protocols. Most people know that VLC can play back subtitles, delay or advance audio, and convert files but did you know that VLC can rip DVDs too? In this tutorial, i will show you how to free rip DVD with VLC.
Ok, I know that most people know to open the program first, but if you don't, open the program. unless you have some problem with your installation or your OS it should look like this (see below image). click on 'Media' and then 'Convert/Save
From there, choose the 'Disc' tab and select your DVD drive. If you're trying to rip a commercial DVD, make sure to set VLC to skip the DVD title or it'll just keep recording the menu video over and over again. Most users won't need to adjust anything under 'Show more options' so just click the button for 'Convert/Save.'
The next screen that pops up will want you to choose a location to save your file. Give it a memorable name and put it somewhere you'll remember followed by the extension of the file format you want, otherwise VLC will default to a .ps file, which stands for Program Stream. So for example, if you're saving a movie as an MP4, add '.mp4' to the file name when saving.
There is a little tool button next to the drop-down menu for changing video codecs where you can adjust specific settings for video and you can even overlay subtitles on your ripped file.
Once started the play progress bar will represent the rip progress. You'll probably also notice that your machine becomes slower as VLC will be consuming tons of system resources to encode video.
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Though VLC Media Player comes with powerful abilities to convert video/DVD format, it still has some drawback. For example, the supported output format is limited. And sometimes it can't recognize protected DVD well and failed to convert the DVD successfully. Plus, VLC Media Player is too complicated for a novice who has little knowledge about DVD ripping process. You're much better off getting a solution like Brorsoft DVD Ripper (Reviews), which can not only rip just about any DVD, but can convert it into any format you want really easily.[/size]
Overall, the program is easy to use for editing and conversion and makes great quality copies of DVDs. It takes everything from the DVD, including the chapters, extras, and subtitles. With it, you can take your digtal copy down to the 1.5GB level (without losing the quality of your DVD). The audio/video synchronization is very good, the size of the subtitles too. And each rip and compress only take 10 minutes or even less.
The Steps:
Step 1: Click "Load DVD" button to load the movies from your DVD discs.
Step 2: Click "Format" (located below where your DVD's files are displayed) and select the format you want from the drop-down list.
Step 3: Click "Convert" button to start ripping DVD to any format or device you like.
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