There are settings you could google out for ffmpeg to rip a dvd direct to avi, for instance:<div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">
* You can transcode decrypted VOBs:</p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><pre>ffmpeg -i snatch_1.vob -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -b 800k -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128k snatch.avi
</pre></span><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">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 <code>--enable-libmp3lame</code> to configure. The mapping is particularly useful for DVD transcoding to get the desired audio language.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">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...).</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:07 PM, John Scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@raystorm.co.uk">john@raystorm.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Thanks for all the responses so far.<br>
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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.<br>
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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 :)<br>
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I will let you know if/when I succeed.<br>
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Cheers<br><font color="#888888">
John</font><div class="im"><br>
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On 13/06/11 10:28, Simon Hobson wrote:<br>
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Dave Smith wrote:<br>
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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 - <<a href="http://handbrake.fr/" target="_blank">http://handbrake.fr/</a>><a href="http://handbrake.fr/" target="_blank">http://handbrake.fr/</a> - 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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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