How do you rip a clip from a DVD on OS X?

I like to use my own app aimersoft dvd ripper for mac, the new version also fully supports Mac OS X Leopard, that's really good
http://www.aimersoft.com/dvd-ripper-for-mac.html

Great suggestions in this post for extracting clips, but what I'm looking for is a simple way to extract just the movie portion (no special features or the extras which bulk up the file siz) so that I can burn it to a DVD. I found how to save the stream of just that portion using YadeX, but have no idea how to then burn it to a DVD. Typically, if the DVD is under 4.7 GB, I just save the disc image and burn it easily using the disc utility. All advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I need to copy a clip from a dvd, using ~Tiger. I am going to use Yade X, I am using Quicktime 7 pro and have just found the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component. The version I have found is for Quicktime 6 - wouls this work/be compatible with QT 7 Pro? Any help pls-Would be very grateful.... Thank you

Some really useful advice in this thread so far.. Wondering if anyone might have some ideas on my own particular vid problem. I have a fully authored PAL DVD that I need to produce an identical NTSC version of. The DVD is the only existing copy of the footage and content concerned. Is it possible for me to to rip a copy of all the contents of this disc (..menus, sub menus, video & audio tracks etc) and just output from these files a new disc identical in every way except it's an NTSC DVD instead of PAL. Or will I just have to re-encode the programme material and re-build the menus from scratch trying to copy the style of what's there on the original PAL version. I'm told that DVD converter in mpeg2works should do the job. Is anyone aware of freeware that might do the same thing or another way of doing it. Thanks in advance for any advice you might be able to give.

I have another way of getting VOB files to DV. Not very sophisticated I know but this is what I do - I simply drag the VOB file into Toast 6 (the "Basic" tab in Toast is fine. I merely drag it where it says to add video files.) A double click of the thumbnail opens info of the VOB file which is now in thumbnail movie format! I click cancel at this point. This then opens up the Export feature at the bottom of the screen. I can now export the MP2 footage to DV. I get the audio converted through either Mac the Ripper or even a52decX, an open source app available from The audio is then pasted into the footage either using FCE or QTPro.

Does anyone know which file in the Video_TS folder is the autoplay on a DVD. ie from the FBI Warning stuff all the way to the Menu.

i would recommend snapz pro, i use it to get clips, it's lightning fast, and its never let me down. http://secure.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/store/hazel.cgi?action=serve&item=spx2.html

I'm sorry to be posting late, but given what I believe this person asked for the solution is both cheap and simple. I do a lot of clipping for presentations. I use Handbrake (free) to rip the chapter I want to an MPEG4 clip on the desk. I then launch iMovie and drag the clip in. Once it has completed the import, I am free to cut and splice as I desire before sending the finished product to iDVD. Simple. Quick. Cheap (FREE!). Good Luck. MLC

Being an American in a foreign country, there is first the more basic question of "How do I rip a DVD if it's not from the region my mac is set to?" These are all good solutions after the fact, but is there a way to make my 17" powerbook region free yet? Since I switched to region 4, the drive doesn't even recognize other regions to do a rip with. I had hoped I could still rip and then strip the region, but the region settings come first, preventing the drive from reading the disk in the first place.

I use DVDxDV to take any given portion of a DVD and bring it into DV or quicktime. http://www.dvdxdv.com/ .