Andrew Flegg wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007 10:40 PM, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote: > [how to know what DVD title to rip] [...] > Googling for this error turned up this, hopefully it'll help: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=299113 Aha. Thanks: running $ sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh installed the missing libdvdcss2 and now lsdvd works. WTF this isn't automatic is anyone's guess :-) >> > *Usually* the main feature is title 1, so you can do: >>> tablet-encode -p best dvd://1 myfilm.avi >> "Failed to get movie info." > > This is probably related to your DVD issues also affecting lsdvd and dvdinfo. Yep. Encoding away happily now. Very many thanks for your help. Looks like Ubuntu still has a little way to go before DVDs can be considered playable. Totem still says it has no codec for this DVD (the movie Amelie) despite me having installed *all* those available. >> Will it then encode just one VOB file, or will it somehow know that the >> movie is split across eight or nine of them? > > VOB files are just containers. You don't need to deal with them > directly. OK, so one of them *is* a driver for the actual movie, and the VOBs must just get #include'd somehow. > Possibly. This'd introduce a dependency on lsdvd to find the largest > title, but it's certainly doable. I'll add it to the TODO list. From the look of it you'd better not, if lsdvd is dependent on a libdvdcss2 which is not automatically installed. >> If you're doing this from a DVD, which I assume is by far and away the >> most common scenario, is it possible to make tablet-encode work out >> what file to start at? > > Personally, I use the DVD ripping less than I use it for re-encoding > videos I've already got. This is probably true in the USA, where bandwidth and availability means you can download movies fairly easily. Possibly not so elsewhere. > I think the best way, TBH, would be to allow > a syntax like: > > tablet-encode dvd:// myfilm.avi > or tablet-encode /media/cdrom0 myfilm.avi > or tablet-encode /dev/dvd myfilm.avi > > ...and have it a) detect it as a DVD, b) call lsdvd to find the > longest track and generate an appropriate URL of the form > dvd://<track>. That sounds ideal. ///Peter
