Amadeus W. M. wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:27:57 -0500, David Vernon wrote: > >> Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: >>> I am looking for a reliable way of ripping a DVD onto hard drive. I have tried to use mencoder and transcode with and without GUIs, but I get rather >>> mixed results (mostly video is fine, but the sound is all jumbled). The re-encoding is not a requirement, I can keep the original VOBs as long as >>> there is some way to rip and use subtitles. I have tried and tried and to no avail. If someone has suggestions, tried and proven commands or any other >>> help on the subject I would truly appreciate. >> mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile ./bigmovie.mpeg dvd://$yourTitleNumber >> >> The output of this is playable via mplayer,xine,whatever as a big mpeg >> and the sound will be in sync. >> > > However, if you then want to author bigmovie.mpeg with dvdauthor, say, you > can't. Or at least it's not straightforward. I had to dumpvideo, dumpaudio, > then re-multiplex the two in order to get an mpeg usable by dvdauthor. And > the final product had a significant and annoying A-V difference of a few > seconds. I'd be interested in a good way of authoring the dumped stream. > I don't know if this would qualify as a "good way." It is somewhat manual and does not capture the subtitles. Basically I took these steps out of a perl script that I found someplace called dvd9to5. That script also resizes the title to fit on a standard dvd. I didn't want that so I just robed the other commands it uses and the sequence. All this is done after doing an 'mplayer -dumpstream' on a dvd title. mkdir -p ./dvd/VIDEO_TS # build a couple of named pipes for a bit-o-ipc mkfifo ./vid.fifo mkfifo ./aud.fifo # got tcextract? 'yum install transcode' if not. tcextract -i ./vid.fifo -t vob -x mpeg2 > ./ofile.m2v & tcextract -i ./aud.fifo -t vob -x ac3 -a 0 > ./ofile.ac3 & # now that tcextract is listening to our two fifos dump # some data at them. cat the-big-movie.mpeg | tee ./vid.fifo ./aud.fifo > /dev/null # put it all back together into a movie that dvdauthor can be # happy with. This step requires mjpegtools mplex -f 8 -S 0 -o movie.mpeg ofile.m2v ofile.ac3 # movie.mpeg is a file that dvdauthor can be happy with. Next steps # would be some combination of: dvdauthor -t -a ac3+en -o dvd movie.mpeg # or if you have a file with chapter info for that title dvdauthor -t -a ac3+en -c `cat ./chapter-info -o dvd movie.mpeg # follow one of the above with dvdauthor -T -o dvd # you can always get the chapter info with tcprobe -i /dev/dvd -T 1 -H 500 2>&1 | egrep "\[Chapter ..\] "| \ cut -d " " -f 4 # '-T 1' means title 1 so change to some other number if appropriate # # now build the iso file: mkisofs -dvd-video -o your-dvd.iso dvd there you go. Write it to dvd or use it as the arg for mplayers --dvd-device option. your choice ;-)
