With this method, you will rip each of the individual chapters, one-by-one, to your Hard drive. You will then remove the audio from each specific chapter. By ripping each chapter, you will actually be copying both the picture and all tha audio to your hard drive in the form of a .vob file. The downside to this is that it can take up to 6 gigs of hard drive space. But if you do them one-by-one, deleting the vob file after you've removed the audio, then it shouldn't take nearly as much space.

Note: You may need to play the actual movie (not just the intro) for a few seconds (with your PC DVD Playing Software) to unlock the files. Sometimes SmartRipper will have no problem without this step.

Run SmartRipper.  A small box will scan through the files, then the main window will pop open:   
   

Before doing anything else, you might as well locate the correct audio track that you'll be selecting in the next step when you use DVD2AVI.

Click on the "Stream Processing" tab, then checkmark the "Enable Stream Processing" box.  The first line is the video track, so ignore it.  Below that are any alternate language tracks available: 
  

   
In this example, we have an English, French and Spanish track, where the second English track listed is the commentary.  These will be tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 when we use DVD2AVI.  So count down from the top (ignoring the Video Track) and figure out which number corresponds with the commentary and write it down for later. In this case, you'd know that the commentary is track 4 (remember not to count the video track)

You should also note if the commentary track is (1Ch) or (2Ch). If it's only (1Ch) then there's NO reason to encode your mp3 in stereo. Keep this in mind for later or write it down.

Now uncheck the "Enable Stream Processing" box and click on the "Input" tab.

Okay, now you're back at the original page.

   
Click on the "Settings" button and verify that they look like this:  
  

Whatever you select should stay selected in the future. Click the OK button.

Now you're back to the main page again.

Click on the "Target" button, down at the bottom of the window, and browse to the folder where you want to save the VOB files.  Rename them whatever you want. If you're doing several chapters at once, then SmartRipper will append your initial filename with a "_1", "_2" etc. for each chapter (I like to name mine "CH so then Smartripper will make them CH_1, CH_2 etc or you can use the name of the film)

Also, if you do not have a lot of room on your hard drive, you can go up to the "Chapters" window and check and uncheck each chapter one by one or do them in stages. Just make sure that you (re)name the files in numerical order so you can keep track of which one goes where.

Click "Start" to begin the process (if you don't have enough HD space, the Start button will be hidden)  If you want to make a test run, un-check all of the Chapters except one or two. 

 
If you have problems and it's not ripping all of the files, make sure the disc is clean, and you might try clicking on the "Files" box and ripping the VOB files by name, rather than doing it automatically.  If that doesn't work, give DVDDecrypter a try. 

Okay, now onto ripping the audio out of the resulting .vob files
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