Ripping a DVD to a single VOB on Linux
June 21st, 2007 Posted in Linux
I’m documenting this for my own use and hopefully someone else can benefit from this.
Transcode has a useful utility called tccat that can read from a DVD and output a single vob file. I use it to rip the feature title to a single file for later conversion to xvid.
tccat -i <path to dvd mount point> -T <title #>,<chapter #> > output.vob
tccat -i /media/cdrom -T 1,-1 >movieName.vob
Be sure redirect the output or you’ll get a bunch of crap in your terminal.
Once done you can play the vob with mplayer (or whatever) and it should include all languages, angles, and subtitles that the original movie had but none of the extra features.