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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>The below HowTo has been submitted for
inclusion with the <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/">www.MythTV.org</a>
documentation and an updated copy is kept at <a href="http://www.mythtv.info/">www.mythtv.info</a>.
I am sending this to the mailing list to be searchable in the archives.
So, however someone wants to access this, it's their choice.</span></font></i></p>
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font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Also, search for related threads:</span></font></i></p>
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font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Burning MythTV
Recordings to DVD HowTo</span></font></i></p>
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font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'> Creating
a DVD With a Menu HowTo</span></font></i></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>BURNING MYTHDVD VOB FILES TO A DVD HOWTO</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This script is taken from a posting on the MythTV-users
mailing list.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>You can burn perfect-rip VOB files already ripped in MythDVD
by commenting out the portions of the script that grab the main feature and
that grab the chapter info and change the name of the VOB file in the
script. Or just leave the script as is to backup directly from a DVD
without using MythDVD.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>To have this script run uninterrupted from beginning to end,
you must replace the original dvd with a blank dvd at some point during the process.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If you want to put multiple video titles on one DVD, you
will want to create a DVD with a menu. In the script, change the active
section to "Make the DVD image (w/ menu)". To create the
necessary files, read "Creating a DVD With a Menu HowTo".</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>####Begin dvd-backup.sh####</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>## Grab the .vob of the main feature</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>echo "Grabbing VOB from DVD."</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>tccat -i /dev/dvd -T 1,-1 -L >dvd.vob</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>## Make fifo's for extracting audio and video simultaneously</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>mkfifo vid.fifo</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>mkfifo aud.fifo</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>## perform the extraction</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>echo "Extracting audio and video from file1"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>tcextract -i aud.fifo -t vob -x ac3 -a 0 > ofile1.ac3
&</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>tcextract -i vid.fifo -t vob -x mpeg2 > ofile1.m2v &</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>cat dvd.vob | tee aud.fifo vid.fifo >/dev/null</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>rm *.fifo</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>## Retrieve the chapter list.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>echo "Retrieving chapter list from DVD"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>tcprobe -i /dev/dvd -T 1 -H 10 2>&1 | egrep
"\[Chapter ..\] " | \</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>cut -d " " -f 4 | perl -pi -e 's/\n/,/' | \</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>perl -pi -e 's/,$//' >chap.list &&</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>## Calculate the requantization factor</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>vsize1=`ls -l ofile1.m2v | awk '{print $5}'`</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>vsize1=`echo $vsize1 / 1048576 | bc`</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>asize1=`ls -l ofile1.ac3 | awk '{print $5}'`</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>asize1=`echo $asize1 / 1048576 | bc`</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>req=`echo "1.05 * $vsize1 / (4400 - asize1)" | bc
-ql`</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>echo Requantizing at: $req</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>## Perform requantization (comment out if $req < 1.0)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>echo "Requantizing MPEG video for file1"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>tcrequant -i ofile1.m2v -o movie1.m2v -f $req</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>## Put the audio and video back together</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>echo "mplexing file1"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>mplex -f 8 -S 0 -o movie1.mpeg movie1.m2v ofile1.ac3</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>## Make the dvd image (w/o menu)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>echo "Making DVD file system, step 1"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dvdauthor -t -a ac3+en -c `cat chap.list` -o dvd movie.mpeg</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>echo "Making DVD file system, step 2"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dvdauthor -T -o dvd</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>## Make the dvd image (w/ menu)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>#echo "Making DVD file system"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>#dvdauthor -x dvd.xml</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>## Make DVD</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>echo "Writing DVD"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -dvd-video DVD</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>echo "Done."</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>####End dvd-backup.sh######</span></font></p>
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