DVD extracting and converting to MPEG

Hi:

Hope somebody could give me some help on the best way to do the following and any freeware software you may recommend w/links to the sites(Second choice would be shareware please). Thank you in advance.

I do a lot of music editing both audio/video. I want to be able to take certain parts of a DVD and have them converted to an MPEG file, so I can use the music editing programs I have. What programs would let me play a DVD on the computer and let me tell it which chapter(s) I want to convert to the MPEG? Even if it has to end up as a VCD, I then can always change the file extension to .mpeg. It will work on a VCD but not on a DVD. Hoping there are fast and easy methods.

Finally please the programs you suggest, will they let me extract the parts of the DVD if it is either a copy or the original. Sometimes I am working off a copy.

The system I have has plenty of power/speed and room P4/3.06/1024 Memory/250 GB (Only using 8 percent) and cable modem.

Thank you for your time and be well.

 

Doom9 is a great resource for video related work. I'm sure they have just what you are looking for, both software and how-to's. http://www.doom9.org/

 

Thank you for reply. The Doom site wasn't advantageous as anytime you would click on somthing that may be good for the questions I asked, you get a page that there is an error.

If you have any others sites it would be appreciated.

Thank you and be well.

 

You might like CDBurnerXP it's freeware and does a lot of stuff including conversion from MPEG to DVD etc.

 

You can also get off MG.
Here (I'm gradually figuring out how to ask the right questions to get where i want to in the new google (grr) search format.)

 

Look HERE Lot's of guides:
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/

Then in search box top of Page type in DVD to MPEG youll get several guides

Lot's of other great guides avaible too!