[Lancaster] DVD ripping software
John Scott
john at raystorm.co.uk
Mon Jun 13 14:12:43 UTC 2011
Wayne, is there any way to get handbrake to output xvid avi files? The
only options I have are mp4 and mkv
On 13/06/11 14:07, Wayne Ward wrote:
> Yes i have a couple of ATV blacks - jailbroken
> Installed plex on my mac and on the atv or install upnp share on
> linux and xbmc on the atv and your away
> awesome bit of kit for 100 quid delivered ;)
>
> Wayne
>
> On 13 Jun 2011, at 13:52, D Smith wrote:
>
>> One extra bit to deal with post-ripping viewing. I can heartily
>> recommend a Jailbroken AppleTV (2nd Gen) running XBMC as a great
>> little inexpensive network streaming box. It still regrettably has to
>> run iOS first, but XBMC is lovely.
>>
>> Of course, if you want something more Linux-y, you can pickup 1st Gen
>> AppleTVs on ebay for around the 60 quid mark and stick Ubuntu or
>> whatever you like on it. Downside to me in that perspective is that
>> the 1st Gen is a bit bigger and uses more power for very little in
>> the way of additional features.
>>
>> http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_for_iOS_specific_FAQ
>>
>> Either way, good luck!
>>
>> 2011/6/13 Wayne Ward <wayne at lancastercomputers.co.uk
>> <mailto:wayne at lancastercomputers.co.uk>>
>>
>> if your wanting eay ripping id defo go for handbrake i use it on
>> ubuntu and on my mac
>>
>> http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php
>>
>> Regards
>> Wayne
>>
>> On 13 Jun 2011, at 13:12, Dave Leack wrote:
>>
>>> There are settings you could google out for ffmpeg to rip a dvd
>>> direct to avi, for instance:
>>>
>>> * You can transcode decrypted VOBs:
>>>
>>> ffmpeg -i snatch_1.vob -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -b 800k -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128k snatch.avi
>>>
>>> This is a typical DVD ripping example; the input is a VOB file,
>>> the output an AVI file with MPEG-4 video and MP3 audio. Note
>>> that in this command we use B-frames so the MPEG-4 stream is
>>> DivX5 compatible, and GOP size is 300 which means one intra
>>> frame every 10 seconds for 29.97fps input video. Furthermore,
>>> the audio stream is MP3-encoded so you need to enable LAME
>>> support by passing |--enable-libmp3lame| to configure. The
>>> mapping is particularly useful for DVD transcoding to get the
>>> desired audio language.
>>>
>>> So once you have the VOBs off the disc, transcoding is fairly
>>> straightforward using ffmpeg it seems (provided your version
>>> already has lame support, fairly sure I didn't have to compile
>>> it from source when I did it last, but I can't remember if I
>>> used mp3 audio or not...).
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:07 PM, John Scott <john at raystorm.co.uk
>>> <mailto:john at raystorm.co.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for all the responses so far.
>>>
>>> I tried dvd::rip and found it very complicated. It failed to
>>> rip the dvd, which I think has more to do with incorrect
>>> settings than the dvd itself. I also tried k3b and found it
>>> easy to use but it also failed to rip the dvd.
>>>
>>> To answer the question about the output. All I want is an
>>> avi file of the main feature. The kids have a load of dvd's
>>> and no respect for them. I want to get them all onto a pc
>>> for them to watch then hide the dvd's away from them :)
>>>
>>> I will let you know if/when I succeed.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13/06/11 10:28, Simon Hobson wrote:
>>>
>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> Whilst I haven't got any actual experience with this
>>> to confirm if it should work or not, my best bet
>>> would be look at Handrake -
>>> <http://handbrake.fr/>http://handbrake.fr/ - which
>>> is a lovely little cross-platform transcoder that
>>> I've used to transcode all my DVDs into Matroska
>>> file containers for playback via XBMC frontends.
>>>
>>>
>>> IIRC Handbrake has come up fairly regularly on the Myth
>>> TV users list. On the other hand, AnyDVD is frequently
>>> recommended for it's ability to handle stuff that others
>>> don't.
>>>
>>> It's my understanding that, under Linux (with
>>> libdvdcss2) the decoding should already be done for
>>> you (as it's needed to play the DVDs) so you just
>>> just be able to open the disc in Handbrake and go on
>>> from there.
>>>
>>>
>>> Indeed. In theory all you need to do is copy the disk
>>> (either dd it to an image file, or copy the video_ts
>>> folder). Watching the comments on teh Myth list, it's
>>> clear that most commercial DVDs have something 'broken'
>>> so as to stop this. Hence the variety of tools to work
>>> around this and "fix" the breakages.
>>>
>>> The other thing to consider is ... do you want a video
>>> file of the main feature, or a complete copy of the DVD
>>> with menus, extras, etc.
>>>
>>>
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