Rip a DVD without any transcoding?

[rjwilmsi]

When ripping DVDs with VLC I just want to rip a given title as a single VOB file without any transcoding to AVI or similar (I can achieve this with mencoder under Linux). Is this an option available in VLC, none of the presets in the DVD recording screen seem to offer this? I believe the same question was asked before – viewtopic.php?f=2&t=49463&p=157860 – but not answered.

Thanks

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

If you really want to rip the pristine DVD, you really don't need VLC. Just dump the ISO from /dev/cdrom or whatever, or mount the disc filesystem and copy the files.

If you want to remultiplex it as a single program stream (without transcoding), then you can use:

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vlc dvdsimple:// --sout '#standard{mux=ps,access=file,dst=dvd.mpg}'

[rjwilmsi]

Thanks, but I don't want the whole DVD, just a single title (the main one). The mounted disc doesn't seem to present titles in this way.