How to rip a dvd with many many segments

[lazydays]

I have a dvd that has many many 2-4minute segments. I don't want to rip them all individually. How can I do the whole thing as one?

[Lew Zealand]

Some DVDs are mastered with all the segments in one .VOB file so you can just rip the whole file. If there are numerous VTS_XX_1.VOB files where the XX goes up to 20 or 30 or more, then hopefully someone else has a better suggestion.

[macbeergeek2]

Won't Handbrake do that?

[deckeda]

No, HB makes you choose an individual title or chapter, one at a time unless the disk was mastered such that a "main feature" was made.

I wouldn't mind ripping separate titles/chapters for those disks without a main feature if HB could stitch them together, like VisualHub could (when it worked, that is.) Instead, I have to later copy/paste each transcode into a new Quicktime file. I guess MPEGStreamClip could do that as well.

[bazookaman]

Are you sure there isn't a "longer" choice in the list? I ripped a loony toons disk and it had LOTS of smaller segments but also had the longer segment for the "watch all" option on the DVD.

[macphanatic]

I would rip the entire dvd, then merge the VOB files and then convert. A program such as D-vision will merge the VOB files. It's free. I'm sure that there may be other options.

D-vision: http://d-vision.en.softonic.com/mac

[lazydays]

Thanks for the tip macphanatic, I downloaded the program and combined the vob files. The interface is confusing but I eventually figured it out. Handbrake now sees it as a 2.5hr vob file and is cranking away on it.

Btw, I'm familiar with the situation where there is sometimes a longer track displayed in handbrake but that wasn't the case this time. This dvd is an educational dvd with many many short clips of different instructors.

[lemoon]

Rip the entire DVD, use handbrake or formatfactory, there are many guides how to do online, just full use the Google search~