VLC Media Player Russell Bateman June 2026 last update:

How to record a title to save to a file.

1. Open VLC and navigate to Media → Convert/Save
2. Click the Disc tab.
3. Check the box for No disc menus (this is critical to unhide track selections).
4. Under the Starting Position options, look for the Title field and change the value to whichever title you want¹. Leave Chapters at 0 to get the entire title.
5. Click the Convert/Save button at the bottom.
6. In the next window, choose your preferred format from the Profile dropdown, e.g., Video - H.264 + MP3 (MP4).
   
   If this is for play on Plex Media, do this:
   1. Click the wrench icon next to the drop-down menu.
   2. In the Encapsulation tab, ensure that MP4/MOV is selected.
   3. In the Audio codec tab:
      1. Check the box for Audio.
      2. Change the Codec dropdown from MP3 (which Plex Media cannot use) to MPEG 4 Audio (AAC).
   4. Click Save.
7. Click Browse next to Destination file, name your file appropriately (it's going to be .mp4) and choose where to save it.
8. Click Start.

Instead of playing the video out loud, VLC will rapidly process the track. You will see the timeline slider zip across the screen, completing the extraction in just a few minutes depending on your hard drive or disc drive speed.

Notes

¹ To see which "title" numbers (on disk) correspond to which episodes, note that:

• Usually, the titles occur in ascending order on the disk.
• Rarely do they begin at 0 or 1.
• You can only recognize them by their length.
• To see the list, do Playback → Title and look at the numbers and the lengths. For example, a standard, one-hour American television episode will run around 44 minutes.
• Often, in television shows, you'll see a super long "episode" at title 0 or 1 that is really a concatenation of all episodes on the disk in one file. This isn't ideally what you want to transcode. Look, instead for...
• You should know how many episodes are on the disk; and see that many titles by appropriate, expected lengths among the list from the Playback → Title drop-down.