[mythtv-users] rip DVD (I own) to storage with menus

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 03:57:41 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Joey Morris <rjmorris at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Mark Lord <mythtv at rtr.ca> wrote on Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 06:30:18PM -0500:
>> 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
>>
>> That's pretty basic.  You could also use k3b and/or other apps to rip to .iso form.
>
> That doesn't accomplish the goal of compressing the videos with x264.
>
> I wouldn't recommend it, but you could use Handbrake or similar to
> compress each title, then use a DVD authoring program like dvdauthor
> or its frontends to create a new ISO, then drop that ISO into
> mythvideo. However, I think the titles need to be MPEG2 on the ISO, so
> you're going to be converting back to MPEG2 anyway. Also, don't forget
> that each menu is itself a title on the disc, so that will probably
> complicate matters. In my opinion, the savings in disk space isn't
> worth the hassle involved in this process. I think you're better off
> ripping straight to ISO, as Mark suggested, or transcoding each title
> individually using Handbrake.

I understand that mkv files (which h264 is often packaged in) supports
menus and chapters.

However I have not seen any real files which achieve this. May be a project?


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