Step 2: Get the Video
(NOTE: This section is exactly the same as lead2gold’s, but with one small exception.)
For this demonstration, I will be ripping Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz with the Japanese audio track and English subtitles.
A. Place your DVD in you drive, open up DVD Shrink, and open the disc. (There’s a big button that says ‘Open Disc’ at the top. You can’t miss it.)
B. Once the disc is open, click re-author. Select the title (or titles in the case of DVDs with episodes) under main movie and drag it to the DVD structure window on the left.
C. Click the compression settings tab, and uncheck the unwanted audio tracks and subtitle tracks. Usually, if more than one English track is available, the first one is the one you need.
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D. Next, go to Edit-->Preferences, click the ‘Output Files’ tab, and UNCHECK the ‘Split VOB files into 1 GB chunks’ option. This gives you one big movie file.
E. Lastly, hit the Backup button, and under “Select Folder to store temporary files” browse the the DVD Shrink directory you created in step 1. DVD Shrink will remember this folder until you change it, so when you rip another DVD, it’ll save there. Hit okay and go find something else to do. DVD Shrink will likely make running any other program next to impossible, so go watch TV or something. The time it takes depends on the size of the movie, the speed of your drive, your CPU speed, etc. I went and played Pokemon Blue in the meantime.
F. NOTE: If, after you complete the process, DVD Shrink gives you a “Reallocation of Video Files’ error, it’s okay. As long as you get the message that the files were encoded successfully. Check your directory folder and you should have a rather large VOB file and like 4 smaller files. Leave them as they are. Don’t delete anything.
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