Based on Doom9's guides and Gordian Knot, but a bit more manual and without much tweaking. Most of the software comes in the Gordian Knot RipPack.
- Play the DVD in VLC and use the Navigation menu to see which tracks contain the main parts of the DVD.
- Use StreamRipper to rip the appropriate VOB files to hard disk.
- Open all the VOB files in DGIndex:
- Preview: note aspect ratio (eg 4:3) and video type (eg PAL).
- Choose the audio output method: Demux to WAV if the audio is PCLM, else Demux All Tracks.
- Save Project.
- Use BeSweet to convert the demuxed audio file to Ogg Vorbis.
- Open Gordian Knot:
- Load the d2v file created by DGIndex.
- Add the ogg audio file created by BeSweet.
- Move the resolution slider to get about 2 Bits/(Pixel*Frame). Note the calculated average bitrate.
- Save And Encode - Save an avs file (not actually encoding here).
- Open VirtualDubMod:
- Open Video File - open the avs file created by Gordian Knot.
- In the Streams menu, add the ogg file created by BeSweet to the streams list.
- Save as Matroska file. Set the compression to Xvid, single pass, with the target bitrate as calculated by Gordian Knot. Set video mode to fast recompress.