[mythtv-users] Ripping DVD's

[Jared Greenwald]

On 3/14/07, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>
> Jared Greenwald wrote:
> > On 3/14/07, *Yan Seiner* <yan at seiner.com <mailto:yan at seiner.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     I use mencoder (not myth) to rip DVDs, and I get a full-length DVD
> >     into
> >     about 900 MB - 1.4 GB.  Cartoons take a lot more space than live
> >     action.
> >
> >     I do two-pass encoding, and a single DVD takes about 3-6 hours to
> >     complete both passes.
> >
> >
> > Can you elaborate a little more on this process?  A howto on the wiki
> > or something?
>
> Until I get to the wiki, here's a brief synopsis:
>
> 1.  Get and build mplayer/mencoder.  Most likely you will have to build
> from source to get the latest codecs, etc.
>
> 2.  Install lsdvd.
>
> 3.  run lsdvd to get a listing of the tracks.  At this point, I usually
> play the longest tracks to see what's on them.  Some DVDs will have two
> identical tracks, except that one is in 4:3 and the other 16:9.  Or
> sometimes one will be in French and one in English, or some such
> nonsense.  Look through the DVD and play any track that looks
> interesting.  Pay attention to the sound as well; sometimes the primary
> track is a french or spanish dubbing, or 2 channel stereo.
>
> 4.  run mplayer dvd://[my track] -vf cropdetect ; mplayer will print out
> its idea of a bounding box so you can trim out the black border.  This
> can change so make sure you skip ahead far enough to get past the titles
> and so on.  Read the manpage for mencoder on that as well.
>
> 5.  Now that you have the track and crop info, edit the encode script
> (read the comments).
>
> <------------cut here--------------->
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> TITLE=My_Title
> CROP=My_Crop_Box # add your crop box that mplayer suggested.  You may want
> to crop more or less.
> ASPECT="2.35"  # whatever the correct aspect may be - usually 4/3 or 16/9
> but not always
> BITRATE=1400 # the higher, the better quality but larger file 900 is
> marginal, 1400 is good - for really, really fast action you want more
> TRACKS="1" # list of the tracks you want to rip - some DVDs will have
> multiple tracks
>
> # read the mplayer manpage on interlacing and frame rates.
> # Basically, for TV source you want to use the following two lines
> (uncomment):
>
> #VF=kerndeint,softskip,hqdn3d,crop=$CROP
> #OFPS="30000/1001"
>
> # for 'major motion picture' (i.e. telecine) stuff you want the following
> two lines (comment out for TV source)
>
> VF=pullup,softskip,hqdn3d,crop=$CROP
> OFPS="24000/1001"
>
> AVILANG="-alang en"  # the language of your choice
>
> for TRACK in $TRACKS ; do
>
>         echo TITLE: $TITLE
>         echo TRACK: $TRACK
>         lsdvd -t $TRACK -x
>
>         mencoder dvd://$TRACK \
>                 -vf $VF -ovc lavc -oac lavc \
>                 -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1:turbo:acodec=mp2:aspect=$ASPECT:vbitrate=$BITRATE \
>                 -ofps $OFPS $AVILANG -o $TITLE-$TRACK.avi
>
>         mencoder dvd://$TRACK \
>                 -vf $VF -ovc lavc -oac lavc \
>                 -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2:acodec=mp2:aspect=$ASPECT:vbitrate=$BITRATE \
>                 -ofps $OFPS $AVILANG -o $TITLE-$TRACK.avi
>
>         done
>
> <------------cut here---------------->
>
> 6.  Run the script.  It will take hours.  It will make one avi per
> track, no menus or alternate endings or anything.  If you see a lot of
> "skipping frame" or "duplicate frame" you selected the wrong framerate
> and deinterlace method.  Re-edit the script and uncomment the other two
> lines.  Movies usually change frame rates/interlace methods several
> times during titles, so wait about 5 or 10 minutes before you panic. If
> 'skipping frame' is still scrolling by 5 minutes into the movie, you
> have the wrong deinterlace method picked.
>
> 7.  Copy the resulting avi(s) to your /path/myth/movies directory
>
> 8.  In myth, re-read the movies directory and add IMDB stuff.
>
> 9.  Enjoy the movie.  The resulting avi will play with mplayer.  You can
> select other codecs (wmv2??) to get windows-compatible avis.  See the
> mplayer manpage.  (You can also use a similar method except use mpeg2
> encoding to reduce the size of the TV recordings by about 80%.  Myth
> will play these but there are some issues with fast forward that I
> haven't sorted out yet, though.)


Cool, thanks.  Does this work at all on arcoss-type dvds?
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