VLC 1.0 Records Video From DVDs
Have you ever wanted to save a segment of video from your favourite DVD for watching later without fast-forwarding all the way through the movie? VLC 1.0 adds a new “Record” feature to help you.
Over at the How-To Geek web site (my home away from Lifehacker), blogger Mysticgeek writes up how to enable the new recording features: just use the View -> Advanced Controls menu item, and then you can record videos by hitting the record button to start saving the video, and then pressing it again when you are done. You’ll find the segment of the video in your Documents folder, saved in MPG format.
This isn’t quite the same as ripping a DVD, which we’ve covered many times before—but you could use it for that purpose if you wanted to, especially if you wanted to cut out the stuff at the beginning of a movie that isn’t necessary. Readers should note that it doesn’t seem to work with just any video, but we’ve successfully tested it with a number of DVDs and even AVI files that seemed to work without problems.
Hit the link for the full walk-through, or read up on how to turn your PC into a DVD-ripping monster, or check out the five best DVD ripping tools.
How To Copy a DVD with VLC 1.0 [How-To Geek]
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@alexmg2420:
No you are not. But mine wasn't a file playing issue. I was trying to do some still capture from the command line. Commands that worked just fine in 0.9.9 would not work in 1.0. I downgraded for now. I'm going to wait a bit before updating again.
jupiterthunder
This is a nice feature to add -- when I couldn't find this in an earlier version of VLC, I started using The KMPlayer to do it.
@alexmg2420:
Did you check the file types that you associated VLC 1.0 with?
Only issue I have with 1.0 is that won't play video instantly anymore, you have to wait like a few moments before your video starts
cvelasquez12
Am I the only one who's having trouble with VLC 1.0? I mean, 0.9.9 was just fine, but now with 1.0.0, it's only playing certain files.
Pretty cool, what is quality of the record?
crabbygeek
How good is the recorded quality? Is it close to the original?
SenorDunda
Excellent, now I can record my favorite pr0n scenes and watch them with ease without having to forward to my favorite part
cvelasquez12
Awesome! Now I wonder if legal issues were the ones responsible for this options to not be visible by default, or maybe people don't really care about this.
Anyway, Witch Hunter Robin is a fine anime series.
She turned me into a newt!
Well that sounds lawsuitaffric! DRM/fair issue issues aside this function sounds wonderful and I'd love to try it out except VLC 1.0 refuses to play anything on my XP install. Bugger.
Lawsuit in 5...4...3...2...
weirdalfan27
@alexmg2420:
Consider yourself lucky that VLC 1.0 will even install itself. I tried four times to wipe and reinstall it, then gave up. Piece of junk unsupported software.
Solstice
@Pietruch: No offense, but it almost sounds like you are being compensated in some way for promoting Format Factory. Besides, I don't think SenorDunda was referring to it.
AtomFury
Wow this is sweet, and it looks very good. COuld be handy for lazy dvd ripping. Also for saving streaming video.
This sadly doesn't work with the OS X version of VLC. :(
SwarupaCalchas
@cvelasquez12: I have noticed that too, but in the space where the time is it shows you a buffer, before in VLC some of the beginning of a lot of media I have would get cut off so I think the buffer is a bit useful considering it's a packet based player
This would be really convenient for some of my friends who always watch the same part of the movie over and over again. Sheesh. Never give them the remote during a movie.
Records well enough but I get no sound from the recordings. Gonna have to play around with it bit to find the fix.
L0nerMan
Now can someone explain the AirTunes support to me. Can't get that going...
resource
This feature has been there for a very very long time.
If the quality is equal, this is feakin' awesome.
does it work with dvb-c HD rips, m2ts-files, ts-files and those mkv-files from the bay ? will it also record my aspect ratio, because i often get black borders with TV-rips and vlc does a great job in removing them! are those recorded mpeg's compatible with handbrake?
Cool, VLC is my favorite video player. I also found a guide about how to use VLC to rip DVD
colarmac
Very cool!
It is great that the player can be used to get videos from DVD. I had not expected it.
For quite a long time, i have been using Cucusoft DVD Converter to help me extract videos from DVD. It works fine. I am going to make a comparison between the software and this VLC player.
dudude
What's the different with DVD ripping?
Is it video capture?
wmv to quicktime on mac
macmatt
Interesting feature, specially for those who needs video segments... on documentaries, for example.
Also: Witch Hunter Robin, great anime.
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
thanks a bunch for this tip. this worked great for my needs and simpler than trying to rip with VLC.
colorebel
@SwarupaCalchas: yea i was excited for a momment there, starting to hate these windows only features
nice.. no more need for VirtualDub
atomicrabbit