[mythtv-users] Does ripping DVDs preserve all the features

[Mark B. Elrod]

I would like them nicely organized in a UI like Myth. Ideally you could 
see them in a view that listed the movies and maybe optionally played 
their DVD menu's in a little window similiar to scene selection on a DVD 
now :)

What is the format of the DVD menu stuff? You would think you could 
leave all of that alone and the DVD player would handle it like it does 
now but then re-encode the main video stream to mp4. If the player can 
play mp4 and mp2 does it care? Is some of the DVD menu stuff is linked 
to the main video file - such as scene selection? If you re-encode then 
maybe the indexing does not work? I would think you would be able to 
rewrite that info if you understood the format.

elrod

Preston Crow wrote:

>>I am looking to get rid of the piles of DVDs around my TV by ripping 
>>them all to HDD. However, I want them to have all the features available 
>>on the disk. When a DVD is played does it work just like a normal DVD - 
>>kind of like having an ISO of the DVD? What about if you choose to use 
>>DivX to save space?
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>You can just use `dd if=/dev/dvd of=my_file` and you end up with an 8GB
>or so file, depending on the disc.  Then when you change the
>configuration on your dvd player (e.g., xine) to use your file instead
>of /dev/dvd.
>
>Now if you want to transcode the mpeg-2 files to mpeg-4, but keep the
>menus and everything, I don't know if there's a good solution, but I'm
>certainly interested.
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