Stupid Exercise Video Intro

January 13, 2009 11:40 AM

DVDfilter: Wife has great exercise video with not so great 10 minute intro that can't be skipped. After the intro there is the dvd menu with the 3 exercise routines. Is there a straightforward way to burn a copy of the exercise routines, leaving off the intro?
posted by leotrotsky to technology (10 comments total)

Yes. What Operating System do you use? (Windows, OSX, etc.)
posted by nitsuj at 11:46 AM on January 13

DVDShrink should do the trick for for you. It allows you to rip CDs with or without menus, previews, etc. You can download it here. It doesn't seem to work well with newer DVDs. I think it is a copy protection issue.
posted by sacrifix at 11:53 AM on January 13

Err, not CDs. DVDs. Thus the name DVDShrink and not CDShrink.
posted by sacrifix at 11:54 AM on January 13

OSX
posted by leotrotsky at 11:57 AM on January 13

You can use an app called DVD43 to fix the copyprotection, then use DVDShrink to rip out the junk you don't want, and remaster the DVD. DVDShrink has it's own copy protection removal stuff, but it seems a little outdated...DVD43 should work better for that part of it.
posted by AltReality at 12:05 PM on January 13

Handbrake
posted by adamrice at 12:05 PM on January 13

dohh..OSX...never mind. - sorry.
posted by AltReality at 12:08 PM on January 13

Will Handbrake let me reburn to functional DVD? It was my understanding that it was more for computer viewing.
posted by leotrotsky at 12:16 PM on January 13

myDVDedit is the best of breed IFO editor for OSX. Make a copy of the DVD using something like MacTheRipper, then modify the IFO as you see fit.

Of course, if the unskippable content is a separate title or chapter, you could just use MTR to rip the bits you care about, leaving behind the part you don't. Then burn the resulting VIDEO_TS.
posted by majick at 12:23 PM on January 13 [1 favorite has favorites]

These are called UOPs, and can be disabled by MacTheRipper as part of the ripping process. If the DVD does other things by itself be sure you only turn off the UOPs you don't want, so that it will still function normally after you re-burn it.
posted by odinsdream at 12:24 PM on January 13