Re: Automated DVD rip process

Wendell III staggered into the Black Sun and said:
I am looking for a way to make my headless Linux box auto-detect [a]
DVD-video [disc] upon [inserting one] into a drive, [then] proceed
with a ripping process, and then an H.264 encoding process.

Any suggestions on how?

Look up Message-ID
slrncqvbdd.79u.danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and the thread it's part of for solutions to finding whether a medium is
in a DVD/CD-RW drive in C and Perl. You could poll the drive every 5-10
seconds without horking the system up.

Unfortunately, the DISC_STATUS ioctl doesn't return info about whether a
disc is a DVD or CD, but you could dvd+rw-mediainfo the drive and make
sure it's a DVD-ROM. Then rip using vobcopy (or whatever)--checking out
the dvd::rip program for ideas on exact procedures would be a good idea.
Then encode using whatever.

You should also define what you want a little more rigorously. Do you
want to rip and encode all titles on the DVD, or just the first one?
Most commercial movie DVDs have over 10 titles on them, after all, and
most of those titles are not the main feature. TV show DVDs generally
have 1 title per episode, so you'd have to rip all those titles. Ah
well, HTH,

--
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a
completely unintentional side effect.
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