[mythtv-users] slightly OT: creating a video on demand library

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Mon Jan 10 15:19:59 EST 2005


Matt Garman wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:37:29AM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>FYI, when I rip, I only take the movie VOB.  I have one file per
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>But how do you know which one is "the" movie VOB?  Couldn't multiple
>VOBs make up the movie?  I found the following link:
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>        http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/dvd-structure.htm
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>Which states that each VOB can only be up to 1 GB in size.  *And*,
>a VOB itself contains several streams multiplexed together.  So, my
>question was along the lines of: how do I determine which VOBs make
>up the movie.  Once I have isolated those VOBs, how do I strip out
>the extra streams that I don't want (such as foreign languages,
>different camera angles, etc)?
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>>movie and that's it.  Sounds like you have complete DVD rips,
>>which indeed you did mention originally.  Perhaps you would be
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>Yup, that is what I have, but I assumed that I would be deleting
>and/or modifying parts of that, i.e. "transforming" the complete rip
>into one file that contains nothing but the movie itself.
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>>better ripping as ISO files and loopback mounting them for
>>xine/mplayer and treating them as complete discs rather than a
>>collection of files.  Adding the .ISO to MythVideo and setting up
>>the appropriate play script would work then.
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>And I would do that, if space wasn't an issue.  The whole point of
>stripping the DVD of extra features is to save on disk space.
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>I figured what I'm doing is fairly common---do most people just copy
>the DVD as an ISO image and store those?
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I use a Windows program, cladDVD to rip it.  It automagically figures 
out the VOB file to use/make for me.

Kevin



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