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

Michael Watson michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au
Tue Jan 17 04:15:34 UTC 2012


On 17/01/2012 2:57 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> 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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I have to ask.  For what reason do you need the file to be compressed?




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