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

Kris B. krisbee at krisbee.com
Tue Jan 17 15:13:17 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jan 18, 2012, at 02:01 AM, Michael Watson wrote:
> On 18/01/2012 1:51 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Michael Watson
> > <michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au>  wrote:
> >> On 18/01/2012 12:17 AM, Kris B. wrote:
> >> DVD in its big size, is 4Gb, possibly 8Gb (if dual layer).  Not really a
> >> huge amount of space is it??
> > A dual layer DVD can exceed 9GB (not Gb) per side.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> 
> Capacity and nomenclature^[19] <#cite_note-18> ^[20] <#cite_note-19>
> SS = single-sided, DS = double-sided, SL = single-layer, DL = dual-layer 
> Designation     Sides   Layers
> (total)         Diameter
> (cm)    Capacity
> (GB </wiki/Gigabyte>)   (GiB </wiki/Gibibyte>)
> DVD-1^[21] <#cite_note-DVD_Demystified-20>      SS SL   1       1       8
>       1.46    1.36
> DVD-2   SS DL   1       2       8       2.66    2.47
> DVD-3   DS SL   2       2       8       2.92    2.72
> DVD-4   DS DL   2       4       8       5.32    4.95
> DVD-5   SS SL   1       1       12      4.70    4.37
> DVD-9   SS DL   1       2       12      8.54    7.95
> DVD-10  DS SL   2       2       12      9.40    8.75
> DVD-14^[22] <#cite_note-21>     DS SL+DL        2       3       12     
> 13.24   12.33
> DVD-18  DS DL   2       4       12      17.08   15.90
> 
> 
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Of course k9copy can bring that back down to 4gb, or if you wanted to
split the difference, 6gb depending on where you set it.  However, again
I don't know the authors intent, but as great as extras are, most people
rarely watch them, at least not on a daily basis.  So since these DVD's
are yours, you can always whip them out when you want to watch the
extras.  This will make them available in your house without people
touching the medium (in general).

Acidrip in linux is a good program (just a pretty bunch of scripts that
use mencoder).  Copy the title you want using this, no transcoding
(takes minutes) - then use handbrake to transcode to mp4.  If you used
xvid, it goes much quicker - but h264 works a bit better at compression,
and lots of devices need h264 (like the roku)

-- 
  Kris B.
  krisbee at krisbee.com


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