On 5/24/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Derek Scollon</b> <<a href="mailto:mailing.lists@scotwebsolutions.com">mailing.lists@scotwebsolutions.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> On 5/24/05, Andrew Ziobro <<a href="mailto:aziobro@gmail.com">aziobro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> > I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to<br>>> chapter, so I've just switched to xine and it's working great for
<br>>> DVDs. My next question is whether MythTV can rip DVDs preserving<br>>> DVD menus and chapters. I've done this in Windows using a little<br>>> program which makes perfect or compressed rips, then Cyberlink
<br>>> PowerDVD can play these directly from hard disk. I've been looking<br>>> around but don't see how this is done in MythTV.<br>>> ><br>>> > --<br>>> > Best regards,<br>>> > Derek
<br>>> ><br>>><br>>> This was on the list a while back.<br>>> It will make a perfect copy to the HD of the entire DVD.<br>>> I found you need to open the DVD with xine first to unlock it and
<br>>> then you can copy it.<br>>><br>>> dd if=/dev/dvd of=/tmp/copy_of.iso bs=2048<br>>> xine <a href="dvd:///tmp/copy_of.dvd/">dvd:///tmp/copy_of.dvd/</a><br>>></blockquote><div><br>
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mplayer dvd:// -dumpstream -dumpfile <somename.vob><br>
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That opens the dvd, then dumps the contents to a single file. See the mplayer manual for details.<br>
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Not sure how Myth does this stuff, but I seem to recall it can be simply scripted.<br>
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Hope I didn't make a mistake on that line ;-)<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Please excuse my ignorance. I just don't get this... I get an i/o<br>> error when I try to run this 'dd' command, either as mythtv or root.
<br>> Also, I'm not sure about 'copy_of', should this be the name of the<br>> DVD? For instance, I want to rip my copy of Black Hawk Down to the<br>> Mythbox, do I use this:<br>> dd if/dev/dvd of=/tmp/BLACK_HAWK_DOWN.iso bs=2048
<br>> xine <a href="dvd:///tmp/BLACK_HAWK_DOWN.iso">dvd:///tmp/BLACK_HAWK_DOWN.iso</a><br><br>> If I mount /dev/dvd and list the files, I only see JACKET_P and VIDEO_TS.<br><br>> Feel free to call me an idiot, but if someone can provide a quick step
<br>> by step I would greatly appreciate it.<br><br>> --Garry<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
</a><br>> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br>From Andrew's instructions, I've done the following and it seems to work...
<br><br>1. Insert DVD and run xine, let it start playing the DVD, then exit it.<br>2. dd if=/dev/dvd of=/video/movie.iso bs=2048 (replace path and filename to suit)<br>3. xine <a href="dvd:///video/movie.iso">dvd:///video/movie.iso
</a><br><br>Optionally,
go into the File Types Settings in MythTV Video setup and create a new
filetype called iso with the command set to xine -pfhq dvd://%s<br><br>--<br>Derek<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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