This guide was written as a basic guide on ripping a DVD into a single computer video file via the free program MeGUI. The aim of this guide is to be a complete walkthrough of the basic concepts for ripping a DVD, and is aimed at everyone from the complete newbie to intermediate users.

There is an Italian (Italiano) version of this guide.

It covers:

• Setting up the required programs,
• Ripping the DVD, which involves:
  • Ripping the data off the DVD Disc
  • Demuxing the audio streams and creating a d2v index.
• Encoding the audio,
• Encoding the video, which involves:
  • Creating an avs script,
  • Calculating the required bitrate,
  • Encoding the video.
• Muxing together the two streams with chapters to produce the final file.

It does not cover:

• Using any of the automated features of MeGUI for video encoding. This guide is intended to show people how to use MeGUI the 'manual' way.
• Using alternate DVD rippers. DVD Decrypter cannot rip all DVDs, if it fails on ripping your disc or you wish to use a different ripper, then feel free. A few recommended rippers are DVD Fab Decrypter or RipIt4Me. It should be reasonably straight forward to work out the instructions yourself.
• Multiple audio or video tracks.
• Subtitles.
• 5.1 audio (if you want to do this, I would recommend muxing the original ac3 file and not doing any encoding).

Main Page Setup Ripping Audio Video Muxing