[mythtv-users] rip DVD (I own) to storage with menus
Raymond Wagner
raymond at wagnerrp.com
Mon Jan 16 23:38:40 UTC 2012
On 1/16/2012 18:30, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 12-01-16 11:31 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>> I own a DVD that I'd like to make available in mythvideo as a complete
>> copy of the original DVD, including menus, etc. Put another way, when
>> the user selects the file from mythvideo, I want it presented exactly as
>> if they were watching the DVD, complete with all titles and menus.
>>
>> And I want to compress the titles with something like x264.
>>
>> I can surely use something like Handbrake to encode and compress each
>> title as it's own video but I want to maintain the presentation of the
>> original DVD complete with the menus.
>>
>> Can this be done, and what's the best way to achieve it?
>
> Dunno about the "best" way, but this is one way:
>
> ## First, *watch* the first few minutes of the DVD using mythtv,
> ## to give the software/firmware time to exchange keys. Then:
>
> cat /dev/dvd> /var/lib/mythtv/videos/mydvd.iso
Note, that will result in an encrypted ISO, which is unplayable across
storage groups. There are patches on trac to support encrypted playback
on storage groups, but they have not yet been committed upstream to 0.25.
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