!!! I am godzilla, you are Japan!!! ([info]tehschkott) wrote in [info]linuxsupport,
2005-04-04 18:39:00

DVD ripping

I'm sorry y'all if this has been addressed before - what do you use to rip your DVD's with? Specifically I want to rip them from DVD and put them into AVI format if possible, MPG format if I have to...

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[info]theswede

April 5 2005, 01:59:05 UTC 7 years ago

dvd::rip

It uses transcoode, and allows you to make divx/xvid, either with the ripped AC3 soundtrack or Lame decompressed MP3 soundtrack.

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/

Has a bit of dependencies, but a piece of software that does what it does has little choice in that regard.

[info]budhaboy

April 5 2005, 16:26:03 UTC 7 years ago

Also, I've found that the DeCSS algorithm used by transcode is inferior to the one used by mencoder (that is, I've had some DVDs inexplicably not open using the transcodes, but will open perfectly fine with mplayer/mencoder)...

[info]theswede

April 5 2005, 16:48:35 UTC 7 years ago

I never ran into that. Interesting. Do you have a title that worked on one but not the other?

[info]budhaboy

April 5 2005, 17:26:18 UTC 7 years ago

I think I've heard of problems with The Royal tennenbaums... There must be an issue because Mplayer makes a POINT of saying they use a different algorithm...

[info]jabberwokky

April 5 2005, 02:17:07 UTC 7 years ago

I just use mencoder:

mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -o "Movie Title.avi" dvd://1

If you want a big honkin' mpeg, you can use -ovc copy, and you have the exact quality of the DVD unencrypted. Of course, you can also list codecs to compress to with -oac help and -ovc help. Sometimes I do -oac lavc.

There are nifty GUIs to configure and do nice things like target sizes (to fit on a CD), but you asked what we use, and the above is what I use. (95% of the time, the movie is track one... you can check by doing mplayer dvd://1 to verify).

[info]theswede

April 5 2005, 02:49:48 UTC 7 years ago

What does that do with the sound at default? Can it retain the AC3 track or recompress to MP3?

I suspect it can, and I can probably research it, but since you use it, you'd know, is my thinking. ;)

[info]jabberwokky

April 5 2005, 10:19:07 UTC 7 years ago

Heh. That's the reason I use copy. Do a mencoder -oac help, and you get:

Available codecs:
copy - frame copy, without re-encoding (useful for AC3)
pcm - uncompressed PCM audio
mp3lame - cbr/abr/vbr MP3 using libmp3lame
lavc - FFmpeg audio encoder (MP2, AC3, ...)

YMMV, depending on what was available on the system when you compiled (i.e., what ./configure saw).

[info]theswede

April 5 2005, 16:08:30 UTC 7 years ago

Now that you've said that, it seems obvious. I assume there are also arguments to pass on parameters to the video and audio compressors to decide bitrates etc., but I can look into that when I ever need it.

Thanks!

[info]budhaboy

April 5 2005, 16:24:12 UTC 7 years ago

yes... see ffmpeg docs for WAY more information than you could possibly want...

As I understand it, Mplayer copied shitloads of FFMPEG code for thier player, but made it (in some ways better).

Transcode is for girlie-men... you should look into using ffmpeg (I know transcode uses some parts of ffmpeg, but I've found ffmpeg to be easier to use... I have no idea why).

[info]theswede

April 5 2005, 16:47:12 UTC 7 years ago

Mplayer/mencode includes the full ffmpeg CVS code, so yeah, they did.

Transcode uses ffmpeg all out ... I don't see why I would want to use raw ffmpeg when I have mencoder and transcode making life much easier?

[info]budhaboy

April 5 2005, 17:29:30 UTC 7 years ago

I donno... it just seems that typing

ffmpeg blah.avi blahdeblah.mpg

is easier than

transcode -i blah.avi -x whateverthefuckcodecintheaviformat -y targetwhateverthefuckmpgcontainer -audiocodec... whateverthefuckcodecsamplingrate...etc. -o blahdeeblah.mpg

Maybe it's me.

[info]theswede

April 5 2005, 17:36:02 UTC 7 years ago

That only works if ffmpeg can read the indata though, which is rather often not the case when you want to convert something. I often want to put together several short clips from various sources into a whole, like when I did a quick summary of GWI back when video was new and exciting (many hours of work that is now lost to the big bit bucket, sadly). That requires making them all the same container, bitrate, size, fps etc., and then cat'ing them.

I would have killed for transcode or mencode back then, I kid you not ...

[info]budhaboy

April 5 2005, 19:30:02 UTC 7 years ago

true... actually I hasn't been my experience, and man fmpeg tells you how to do put each part into a consistent form... in fact, I think you can even say '-type dvd-pal' to create types of non-US DVDs for use with dvdauthor... I don't think transcode has that quite down yet.


[info]budhaboy

April 5 2005, 16:21:36 UTC 7 years ago

you should note, however, that it does NOT copy ALL surround sound channels by default... you need to use the -channels option.

Also, I've found that because it presumes you've got the full surround sound you will need to bump up the audio at the time of playback using the -af volume=decibles:soundclipping (ex: -av volume=10:1, for +10 decibles, and soft sound clipping... see manpage for details).

[info]budhaboy

April 5 2005, 16:28:01 UTC 7 years ago

Please note:

I do not endorse the illegal use of pirate software to steal from the MPIAA. My comments above were purely for academic reasons, gleaned from other's comments. I have utterly no knowledge of ripping DVDs.

In a completely unrelated comment, I finally got my 1TB RAID drive up and running...
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