Got things working on the mac with relative ease. Now, windows.
I got handbrake, and the scan keeps failing, so I need something to rip and something to edit using Windows Vista.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.
If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.
“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”
The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.
Giving up is unforgivable.
Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.
Let there be snark.
Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
T R E 4 5 O N
America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.
I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.
This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.
He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!
If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.
The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.
The revolution will be supervised.
People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.
Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.
Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
Billy K(hrushchev)
Oh, come on, John. You should know by now it’s not possible to actually do anything with Vista.
Punchy
just have Tunch pound on yo keyboard a few times with his paws. you’ll get just as good a response from Vista than if u akshullie tried to download sumpin
infoshaman
Use Vista to contact friends with Macs or Linux boxes and ask them to do the task. Or you could contact Jerry Seinfeld: He’s a Microsoft expert, and he’s got time on his hands.
Laura W
John, when do the pre-debate Balloon Juice parties commence?
I can’t stay up till 9 without large doses of snark and booze to keep me wired.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
This is true. I used to be an expert at organizing folders and files for my own purposes, now I can’t even find half of the files on my computer. ARGH!
Vista sucks, unfortunately. And I’m stuck with it.
MikeL
"I need something to rip and something to edit using Windows Vista."
I don’t doubt that you believe this to be true – but you are wrong. You don’t need anything that needs Vista.
Nothing at all.
John Cole
I might as well just delete this f-ing post.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
I dunno, I’ve never edited videos, so I can’t give you any personal advice, but it seems this would be so much easier…
The
I’ve found that some discs just will not copy with handbrake. It just will not work. The same thing happens. You’re scanning source, it crashes, gives you the three choice option of report, restart or ignore, right? Try shutting down, leaving off for a couple minutes, starting fresh, putting in different disc. If that disc works, try the first disc again. If you get the same problem, it’s def. the disc.
You may want to try something like DVD Decrypter at this point.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Hey, I’m trying to be helpful, really!
cleek
edit with virtual dub (there are links in the last post).
there are many apps out there to rip with. i use Xilisoft’s DVD Ripper (but it’s not free), but people in that last thread linked to plenty of free Windows DOD rippers.
The Critic
Freaking word press. I am "The Critic" not "The."
KM
You might want to try CamStudio – its a free program that records whatever is streaming on your computer. It’s pretty simple: http://camstudio.org/
When you have what you want to record set up, you just click the record button on CamStudio and it opens a window that you then place over the video running on your computer and it records it. Then click the stop button and it exports it as an avi file that you can then upload directly to YouTube.
You’ll probably have to mess around with the sound settings until you find the one that works, but it’s pretty simple. The quailty is not great, but it does the job.
It’s also useful for grabbing things that are designed to prevent you from downloading them.
jake
Just skip to the part where you take a mallet and reduce your computer to sub-atomic particles.
The Other Steve
I honestly have never tried to do what you are doing. I’ll try it when I get home and see if it works.
Is this a problem with copy protection, or something else?
tripletee (formerly tBone)
For ripping: DVD Decrypter 3.5.4 (the last released version – Google it, I’m not vouching for any links)
If that doesn’t work, AnyDVD.
What did you use for editing on the Mac side?
phobos
I have no experience with it, but the kids at doom9 seem to like DVDDecrypter.
I use virtuladubmod for clip editing.
Axe Diesel Palin
Lots of folks recommended the free DVD Decryptor for Windows. http://www.dvd-wmv.com is a friendly UI in front of a bunch of free Windows tools (including DVD Decryptor).
It is easy to use, you just don’t necessarily want to do the WMV encoding step because it takes a long time….
I think you can skip that step and edit one of the intermediate files in Windows Movie Maker (which comes free with Windows).
J. Maynard Gelinas
RE: Handbrake: It won’t rip the entire DVD – menus and all. It just converts the MPEG2/mp3 file to MP4/AAC (IIRC). Which is fine if your video editing software will accept that format.
Mac The Ripper rips the entire DVD to a subdirectory, all ~7GB of it. From there Handbrake or ffmpegx can convert it for you, at much faster speed since you’re cross-coding from disk and not a DVD. Of course, you’ll still have to rip off the DVD anyway – so going MtR could wind up being a time waster if all you want is workable video.
I like MtR 3. It will copy absolutely anything on DVD.
DrDave
John:
You may also want to download DVD43 which is a free decryption program that unlocks the protection coding on DVD’s. You start the program and it runs in the background with an icon on the taskbar. When you load a DVD in the drive, you see the icon change faces and when it is green and smiling, the disk is "open" so any ripping program can access its contents.
I have never gotten Handbrake to work well on my PC using XP and do not have Vista but in cases where I wanted to burn or edit DVD’s on the PC, I usually have to rip the DVD on the Mac and then transfer the Video TS file over to the PC via network or flash drive.
michael
you’ll hate me for this, but: go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu and get the windows binary of mplayer/mencoder. That allows you to rip parts out of a dvd nicely as soon as you’ve figured out the correct command. Also, you might want ffmpeg for a commandline converter-to-flv. But that’s probably not the kind of answer you were looking for.
Mark
for ripping a dvd, try VLC media player
The Other Steve
I used DVD Decrypter and DVD shrink all the time. But I never try to bring the video into an editor. I’m just compressing it and writing it back out.
I also have used dvd43, anydvd and such at times to get around certain "problems".
SamFromUtah
I might as well just delete this f-ing post.
Like you could have expected anything else…
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve had to point out that "Why would you want to do that?!?!?!!!1" isn’t actually tech support. As such.
Ty Lookwell
AnyDVD to rip the DVD to your hard drive.
VirtualDubMod to edit one of the resulting .VOB files which contains the video segment you want to post. Then, again with VirtualDubMod, save the edited video segment into the converted format you prefer.
VirtualDubMod requires a little bit of learning, but is such a valuable tool that it is worth the time and effort. AnyDVD is super simple and straightforward.
Ty Lookwell
I should add that enough people here are comfortable using VirtualDubMod that they could help with any editing/saving questions, I’m sure.
Cain
God no. The whole blog will be nothing about mplayer posts… people might confuse this blog as a tech one.
cain
Jack
John, since you’ve had a few questions about how to do things, it’s looking like the blog Lifehacker could help you out. It’s at http://lifehacker.com/
It’s full of useful information on how to do things.
Cris v.3.1
or "install linux problem solved lol"
SamFromUtah
or "install linux problem solved lol"
Heh. I consider that a variant.
Mike
I’ve used DVD Decrypter in the past with great success.
bvac
Handbrake works fine for me in Vista. What do you mean the scan keeps failing? Try loading a .VOB file and take it from there. Use Virtual Dub for simple editing.
Comrade Jake
I can’t find my ass with Vista.
Scott
For ripping, use DVDFab HD Decrypter (free). Horrible name, but it works on almost all DVDs. Then use Handbrake on the video_ts folder.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Boy, I know that feeling.
The Dangerman
If all you are doing is ripping sound, why isn’t it identical to what you would use to record an analog recording (we used to call them LP’s)? All you have to do is run the sound out to your soundcard and then use any readily available sound editor? Indeed, Audacity MIGHT do it; I know Roxio does. Not that I’m a huge Roxio fan; there’s features (we used to call them bugs) with XP from here to there.
Comrade Scrutinizer
I’m happy with Vista.
Whiners.
Jamie Jamison
John, one kludgy work-around would be to rip the DVD on your Mac using FairMount
http://www.metakine.com/products/fairmount/
copy the resulting VIDEO_TS folder to your Vista system and then use Handbrake to convert the file to M4V or MP4. I’ve had problems on both the Macintosh and the PC with getting Handbrake to rip a DVD directly from the disc. My procedure now on the Macintosh is to use Fairmount to copy the DVD to my hard drive and then rip it with Handbrake. Unfortunately I don’t know of any good freeware ripping programs for Vista, but if you can find one Handbrake will do the rest for you and is the best program that I’ve worked with for the PC and the Macintosh.
If you find a way to do this on Vista would you let us know? It would be handy knowledge to have.
Thanks,
Jamie
call_me_ishmael
I just ripped something like this yesterday with freedvdripper
Worked OK, although the divx codec it ripped the video clip to was a little to new for mplayer v9. I think you can set the output codec, though.
Faux
On a Mac:
Mac the Ripper 3 will rip most things, quicker than Fairmount. It is a simple select a folder and it rips. If it freezes or quits and asks you to reopen, just use Fairmount.
Fairmount will rip the rest, but takes longer. After it gets done loading, you just pull the whole folder (or at least the VIDEO_TS folder) from the CD to a folder of your choosing.
Handbrake isn’t really a ripper. It’s a converter that happens to be able to pull from the DVD. I don’t recommend it for ripping because it disc accesses your DVD drive far too much and causes extra wear for not any gain.