[mythtv-users] iso to avi

[Mark Fraser]

On Wednesday 13 February 2008 13:58:06 F P wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008 2:30 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Matroska (.mkv) and divx (.divx) both claim to support DVD menus in
> > ripped files, although I've never seen them in action. The best ISO
> > reencoder I've ever used is Handbrake, at http://handbrake.fr/ although
> > as far as I know you wouldn't be able to launch it from within MythTV.
>
> Thanks, I'll give HandBrake a try.
>
> edi wrote the following on 2/13/2008 2:20 PM:
> >     If you want the DVD menus then you have to stick with the DVD format.
> >
> >     Most episodic content is mastered one episode per title. So you can
> > just rip each individual title. Something like "mplayer dvd://3
> > -dumpstream" is a possible option.
> >
> >     Once the individual titles are broken out, then you can convert each
> > one individually. That's easy enough to script. Just list them out and
> > feed that list into a loop that fires off a converter command for each
> > member of the list.
>
> I'm very poor at scripting, this might be a good exercise. But in case
> someone has already a script available..... I'm lazy....
>
> mencoder, dvd::rip, devede or even nuvexport cannot accept an .iso as
> input and allow to select the episodes I want as if it was a real dvd?
> If I loop mount the iso, you think I can use any of the above programs
> on the image?
> Something like:
> # mount -o loop -t iso9660 dvd.iso /mnt/isoimage/

That should work. Another tip I found useful recently is that if an episode 
consists of more than one .vob you can combine them with cat file1.vob 
file2.vob file3.vob > file4.vob which would merge file1-3 into file4.

This can then be encoded with avidemux or similar program.

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