Fair use vid clip extraction

Greetings:
I'm not really sure where I should post this question, so I'm putting it here.
I want to be able to do some "fair use" video extraction/burning. Example.....I have purchased several DVD sets of old tv shows (Rockford files etc.). On more than one occasion--like when going out of town on business--I've thought it would be nice to be able to extract individual chuncks/episodes of several disks & then burn them on a "temp" DVD-RW for use while gone. In this way I wouldn't have to carry multiple DVDs, & more importantly, my costly originals could remain safely at home.
So the question is 2-fold......(1) will any Mac product accomplish what I'm looking for and (2) if not, does ANYONE make a product that does what I'm talking about???
Thanks!
Tim Manwell

I think you should be able to select individual episodes depending on how they are arranged on the DVD. From the Mac The Ripper web site http://www.mactheripper.org/
If you only want to extract a certain title set (video track) from the DVD besides the main title set, you can choose the 'Title Set Extraction' option, and setting the title set number you want to extract. This might involve a little trial and error to get the desired one.
If you want to extract only a particular title, you can choose the 'Title Only Extraction' option, and set the title number you wish to extract. The main feature title is indicated with the letters '(MF)'.
And then there are other extraction options. So you might just download it and play around with it and see if it does what you want. Free download.
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I tried to cover it all... but I'm pretty sure I haven't... so... good luck!
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