Herong's Tutorial Notes on CD/DVD
Dr. Herong Yang, Version 2.14

Downloading and Installing vStrip

This section provides a tutorial on how to download and install vStrip for DVD video file processing.

"vStrip" is one the most powerful DVD ripper and VOB file processing program. Here is what I did to download and install it:

1. Go to http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Rippers/

2. Click the file vStrip_08f_css.zip to download it to C:\temp\vStrip_08f_css.zip.

3. Unzip the downloaded file to C:\local\vStrip directory.

4. Run the vStrip command to see the usage information:

C:\>\local\vStrip\vStrip
C:\local\vStrip>vStrip
vStrip - version 0.8f_css, by [maven] (maven@maven.de), CSS-code by R0TfL.

Usage:
  vStrip [@]In [-Options] [[=]IDs]
  In  denotes the input-file and has to be the first argument. 
      If a '@' is prepended to the name, it is read as a streamlist
      (textfile).
  Options:
  -!  defaults to strip everything,
  -2  creates a DVD2AVI 1.76 project-file,
  -b  disables macrovision removal,
  -d  enables demux mode (not producing a VOB anymore),
  -e  disables VOB-assumptions (no 2048 byte sectors), enables demux,
  -g  only keeps GOP-Headers of the Video-Stream(s),
  -l  lists the CELL-Positions parsed from the IFO-file,
  -u  tries to parse (and output) UDF-filesystem on In,
  -c  splits the VOB by CELL-ID,
  -v  splits the VOB by VOB-ID,
  -oL sets the output filename to L (add '+' in front to append),
  -iM sets the IFO-file filename to M,
  -jN sets default angle for IFO-Parsing to N (=1, 0 disables removal),
  -pO selects program-chain (PGC) O (from IFO-file) and enables 
      IFO-Parsing,
  -$P splits output-file(s) after P megabytes (1024KB chunks),
  -aQ changes the aspect-ratio to Q,
  -fR changes the frame-rate to R,
  -sS seeks to LBA S (2048 byte sectors),
  -wT sets the end LBA to T (2048 byte sectors),
  -tU file IO: clib then ASPI (U=1), ASPI then clib (U=2), clib only 
      (U=3),
  -kV sets the key to V (5 hex bytes, no spaces),
  -mW a key deduced from a padding-stream is worth W normal guesses 
      (=2),
  -nX sets the number of times a key needs to repeat to X (=2),
  ...

The installation is done. You are ready to use "vStrip".

Sections in This Chapter

Downloading and Installing vStrip

Ripping Off VOB Files from DVD with vStrip

Listing Data Streams in Movie VOB Files

Demuxing (Demultiplexing) Data Streams in Movie VOB Files

Splitting Large Movie VOB Files with vStrip

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2007
Downloading and Installing vStrip