Recording DVD video to AVI

[AwesomeSauce]

I have a DVD that has a video I want to put on my computer in AVI, WMV or mpeg format. I used a program called DVD decrypter to rip the VOB files onto my hard drive. Each VOB file is an individual video that is accessible from the DVD menu, so when I click on the file the video then plays in Nero ShowTime. This worked with all the videos, except for the one that I want. In order to view it, I have to click on an IFO file which displays the DVD menu and then I have to manually click on the right video. Get it?

I was planning to use DVD2Avi to convert the VOB file to an AVI, but like I said, the video I wanted was the only video that wasn't decrypted into a VOB file. I am confused as to why DVD Decrypter ripped all of the videos into VOB format except for one.

So now I wonder if there is a DVD Viewer that not only lets me watch a DVD or from a DVD file, but lets me start and stop recording the video when I want. For example, when I select the clip I want to watch from the DVD menu, I would then be able to click a record button that would start recording the clip that was currently playing into a video file.

Does anyone know of a program that can do this? Or are there any other alternative ways to rip a DVD into WMV or AVI format?

[colin]

A great program for ripping DVD's to your hard drive is #1 DVD Ripper. I actually just used it for the first time yesterday and it works great.

[princeG]

Here are a couple of other dvd to avi converters:
Link 1
Link 2

Both of them are shareware by the way.