[mythtv-users] Burning MythDVD VOB Files to a DVD

[Douglas Hitchcock]

Thank you, I haven't tried this yet but I am anxious to.  I just thought
I should say something a bit nicer than just a gripe about the HTML :)

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:03, Couvrette, Jeffrey C. wrote:
> The below HowTo has been submitted for inclusion with the
> www.MythTV.org documentation and an updated copy is kept at
> www.mythtv.info.  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.
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> Also, search for related threads:
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> Burning MythTV Recordings to DVD HowTo
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>             Creating a DVD With a Menu HowTo
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> BURNING MYTHDVD VOB FILES TO A DVD HOWTO
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> This script is taken from a posting on the MythTV-users mailing list.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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".
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> ####Begin dvd-backup.sh####
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> ## Grab the .vob of the main feature
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> echo "Grabbing VOB from DVD."
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> tccat -i /dev/dvd -T 1,-1 -L >dvd.vob
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> ## Make fifo's for extracting audio and video simultaneously
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> mkfifo vid.fifo
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> mkfifo aud.fifo
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> ## perform the extraction
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> echo "Extracting audio and video from file1"
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> tcextract -i aud.fifo -t vob -x ac3 -a 0 > ofile1.ac3 &
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> tcextract -i vid.fifo -t vob -x mpeg2 > ofile1.m2v &
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> cat dvd.vob | tee aud.fifo vid.fifo >/dev/null
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> rm *.fifo
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> ## Retrieve the chapter list.
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> echo "Retrieving chapter list from DVD"
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> tcprobe -i /dev/dvd -T 1 -H 10 2>&1 | egrep "\[Chapter ..\] " | \
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> cut -d " " -f 4 | perl -pi -e 's/\n/,/' | \
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> perl -pi -e 's/,$//' >chap.list &&
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> ## Calculate the requantization factor
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> vsize1=`ls -l ofile1.m2v | awk '{print $5}'`
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> vsize1=`echo $vsize1 / 1048576 | bc`
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> asize1=`ls -l ofile1.ac3 | awk '{print $5}'`
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> asize1=`echo $asize1 / 1048576 | bc`
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> req=`echo "1.05 * $vsize1 / (4400 - asize1)" | bc -ql`
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> echo Requantizing at: $req
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> ## Perform requantization (comment out if $req < 1.0)
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> echo "Requantizing MPEG video for file1"
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> tcrequant -i ofile1.m2v -o movie1.m2v -f $req
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> ## Put the audio and video back together
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> echo "mplexing file1"
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> mplex -f 8 -S 0 -o movie1.mpeg movie1.m2v ofile1.ac3
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> ## Make the dvd image (w/o menu)
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> echo "Making DVD file system, step 1"
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> dvdauthor -t -a ac3+en -c `cat chap.list` -o dvd movie.mpeg
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> echo "Making DVD file system, step 2"
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> dvdauthor -T -o dvd
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> ## Make the dvd image (w/ menu)
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> #echo "Making DVD file system"
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> #dvdauthor -x dvd.xml
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> ## Make DVD
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> echo "Writing DVD"
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> growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -dvd-video DVD
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> echo "Done."
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> ####End dvd-backup.sh######
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