Some useful linkx
Just a few links to send you on your way to DVD ripping in Linux.
- MPlayer. The program to use to watch
DVDs in Linux (and windows?). It comes with MEncoder, a command line tool to
encode movies (i.e. rip dvds).
- Transcode. A command line video manipulation tool. Modifies, encodes,
decodes, filters, etc. Required by some of the other programs.
- XviD video codec. Mpeg4 based and a
replacement to DivX.
- dvd::rip. A graphical perl
program to rip dvds. Previews, cropping, options, etc.
- Quickrip. A simple QT based
graphical dvd ripping program.
- dmencoder is a
web page that generates a script for mencoder to rip a dvd.
- k3b is a cd/dvd burning tool
with many features, including some of interest for dvds, vcds, etc.
- Libdvdcss - a library providing dvd decrypting functions. Required by
transcode to read dvds correctly. Google for it.
- Linux DVD ripping
howto.
How I do it
I use mencoder(mplayer) to play and encode my movies. I rescale the movie to
the correct aspect ration so that some broken players don't have to deal with
the "scale" variable. I normally get good results with 700MB (1 cd). For large
or "complex" movies I use 1400MB (2 cds) to maintain quality.
- Watch part of the movie with mplayer, make sure you are getting the
audio/chapter right.
mplayer -dvd 1
- Extract the movie from the dvd with mencoder
mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o movie-rip.avi
- Get aspect ratio from movie with mecoder using cropdetect
- Calculate the scaling and cropping I want
- Encode (mencoder) with some good default options
mecoder -o movie-pass1.avi -oac ...
- Check movie-pass1, guesstimate the options for pass2 (size, audio)
- Encode pass 2 with new options
mecoder -o movie.avi -oac ...
- Enjoy movie
mplayer -fs movie.avi
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Last updated October 7, 2003