Re: DVD ripping software
- From: Chris Cox <ccox_nopenotthis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:23:33 -0600
houghi wrote:
What software do you use? What I would like is put in the DVD, and get
the different chapters in a subdirectory with the name of the movie.
Idealy the name of the movie is automaticaly recoverd from an online
database.
Order of importance:
1) Easy to use (so no mencoder with 700 different parameters. Frontend
is ok). This can be CLI or GUI.
It is difficult to type:
mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile mymovie.vob
(main feature is USUALLY title 1... adjust if needed)
If you just HAVE to use a GUI... you can use K3b for example
to create pure rips (copies of the DVD). Those can be
burnt to a new DVD and be exactly like the original. There are
other tools out there as well. My preference is mplayer...
but if I don't want to keep a rip and I just want a copy,
I have used K3b for that.
2) Ability to break up in chapters
or
mplayer dvd://1 -chapter 2-2 -dumpstream dumpfile mymovie-ch2.vob
3) Full automated (e.g. pt the DVD in and it does the rest itself)
That ones is a bit harder, but can be done... but not nearly so
automatic. Requires a bit of work to set that up... might not
be desirable in all cases... but if you're doing a LOT of rips,
you could set it to execute your script (you'd have to use a script)
when a DVD is detected instead of presenting a chooser.
I don't have a recipe for this... I figure you probably do not
have a stackable DVD loader... so hitting up arrow and return
after inserting a DVD is probably not asking a lot (right?).
On a related question. What are the advatages/disadvandages of
avi/mpeg/ogg
mpeg2 is the format on your DVD.
avi is a container that often times is used to house (for example)
DivX or Xvid format video. I'm odd.. I actually like Divx because
I can seem to encode that much faster than Xvid. Though some say
that Xvid is slightly better quality. Taking an mpeg2 (DVD) and
converting to Divx, Xvid, etc... means LOSS.
Ogg/Theora is a free (for now) video format. Popular because
of its apparent "freeness". It's NOT well understood by most
commercial media players (sorry).
The latter is open source, I know. Are there thechnical differences as
well?
Yes... video codecs are HARD to do. Similar to how a new encryption
algorithm is hard to do... and patents abound. So it's VERY difficult
to develop a high quality video format without stepping into a
patent mess.
In short... Ogg/Theora isn't going to win a quality award. But it
is free (or at least we believe it is free... as always there
is a chance that people will pick it apart... you can read
Wikipedia or whatever and see the roots of the format). Ogg/Vorbis is
usually the audio stream... which IS pretty good when compared
to mp3, etc.
I am thinking of putting all my movies on HD.
It's a good idea. I have most of mine ripped to a large storage
unit and then I encode them into Divx avi's for my PMP (at a lower
resolution as well). Ditto for music. You can use FLAC for a
lossless compression and encode to mp3, ogg or whatever.
But the main thing to keep (if storage is a premium) would
be the lossless formats, mpeg2 for DVD rips and FLAC for
audio rips.
Another format you might consider is x264. That's an
mpeg-4 variant for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC things available to Linux.
Blu ray and other very HD media can use that format.
Blu ray can actually use one (or more) codec types on
the same media... all players MUST include a Java
Virtual Machine... basically it's a HUGE mess and
needs to die a miserable death. It's no wonder the
players cost SO much.
.
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