how to extract an MPG segment from a DVD?

[parishd]

On 1/13/07, Ambrogio <fn050202 at flashnet.it> wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 13/01/2007 alle 18.17 -0500, Robert P. J. Day ha scritto:
> >   what is the most convenient video player with which to extract a
> > segment from a DVD as an MPG file?  thanks.
> >
> > rday
>
> what is a segment?
> If a segment is like a title or chapter maybe vobcopy or vlc is the best
> choise
>
> If you want to be more precise and specify start end end in seconds, you
> can use mplayer or mencoder
>
> Bye
>  Ambrogio
>
I use avidemux, available from livna, and gopchop, which I had to
compile from source.  Both give you a gui in which you can edit out
unwanted portions of videos.

Daniel