[Lancaster] DVD ripping software

[Dave Leack]

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> 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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