[mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

Derek Scollon mailing.lists at scotwebsolutions.com
Tue May 24 22:21:46 UTC 2005


> On 5/24/05, Andrew Ziobro <aziobro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to
>> chapter, so I've just switched to xine and it's working great for
>> DVDs. My next question is whether MythTV can rip DVDs preserving
>> DVD menus and chapters. I've done this in Windows using a little
>> program which makes perfect or compressed rips, then Cyberlink
>> PowerDVD can play these directly from hard disk. I've been looking
>> around but don't see how this is done in MythTV.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Best regards,
>> > Derek
>> >
>> 
>>  This was on the list a while back.
>>  It will make a perfect copy to the HD of the entire DVD.
>>  I found you need to open the DVD with xine first to unlock it and
>> then you can copy it.
>> 
>>   dd if=/dev/dvd of=/tmp/copy_of.iso bs=2048
>>   xine dvd:///tmp/copy_of.dvd/
>> 

> Please excuse my ignorance. I just don't get this... I get an i/o
> error when I try to run this 'dd' command, either as mythtv or root.
> Also, I'm not sure about 'copy_of', should this be the name of the
> DVD? For instance, I want to rip my copy of Black Hawk Down to the
> Mythbox, do I use this:
> dd if/dev/dvd of=/tmp/BLACK_HAWK_DOWN.iso bs=2048
> xine dvd:///tmp/BLACK_HAWK_DOWN.iso

> If I mount /dev/dvd and list the files, I only see JACKET_P and VIDEO_TS.

> Feel free to call me an idiot, but if someone can provide a quick step
> by step I would greatly appreciate it.

> --Garry
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From Andrew's instructions, I've done the following and it seems to work...

1. Insert DVD and run xine, let it start playing the DVD, then exit it.
2. dd if=/dev/dvd of=/video/movie.iso bs=2048 (replace path and filename to suit)
3. xine dvd:///video/movie.iso

Optionally, go into the File Types Settings in MythTV Video setup and create a new filetype called iso with the command set to xine -pfhq dvd://%s

-- 
Derek



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