Dvd Ripping
September 26th, 2006I’ve probably posted more this month then I have in the previous year, and I don’t think I’ll slow done soon, as it actually does get people to visit and hopefully find some interesting details with various Linux related stuff.
Tonight, we have the continuing trials of tsunam ripping all his dvd’s. As always I’m a minimalist and want to do it with as few packages as needed. So what are my first choices? Vobcopy naturally. Positives…well it kills css and gives me a single vob that I can then play. First couple of problems I have with it is the Sony ArccOs which fills the ifo’s with false data that dvd backup applications under Linux panic with and nearly kills the machine. The next thing I run into…is that my audio track on 8 of 19 dvd’s I’ve ripped were done with the french audio! Dvdbackup, well doesn’t seem to be able to backup to a single vob and is much much slower to backup just the main feature. Lxdvdrip is overkill for what I need and it doesn’t seem to do anything different from appearances with vobcopy if it can use it. Xdvdshrink transcodes which is unacceptable for what I’m doing…and we continue to work our way down…
What am I doing for french subtitled movies? mplayer -dumpstream -alang en -channels 6 dvd://. Yep good old mplayer, assuming it doesn’t skip I’ll have one movie tonight…yeah this is a great solution =/. I could get lazy, boot up windows and probably be done with it a whole lot quicker but I’d rather avoid that…so has anyone else ran into french/Spanish/ etc audiotracks with vobcopy instead of the English tracks? As well, if there’s another tool that will do the very simple riping of the main feature, in English, surround sound, as a single vob or heck even a few vobs that I can then just merge somehow? Please let me know.
September 26th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
Dude, there is one word that completely describes your situation.
k9copy.
If that doesn’t do it, grab the stable (yet slow) release of dvdrip
September 27th, 2006 at 4:09 am
Totally unrelated, did you change your blog-software somehow?
I’ve never before been able to read more than the headline with neither Akregator nor konqueror and yes i have been too lazy to mention that.
Checking older entrys, i still cant see more than the headline, thats weird.
September 27th, 2006 at 5:36 am
Have you tried the -m option on vobcopy? You get a mirror of the dvd so it takes more space but you don’t have to worry about the audio tracks and you get the extras as well. Still stumped on a workaround for arccos though…
September 27th, 2006 at 9:20 am
vobcopy with the m seems to have issues for me with the 1.0 release, even when I try to force it. I found that if i force -aid 128 or alang en that I’ll get the english audio, somewhat annoying but it’ll work, I just forgot about said options in say the likes of mplayer.
Steffen: I know that konqueror has issues with my site currently. I don’t actually have a clue why, as viewing the source it shows the actual entries. Akregator has issues as well though hmm…that shouldn’t have any bearing as it grabs from the straight rss feed I’m assuming. I’ll try to look into the reason why later but not sure if I’ll actually have a solution.
September 27th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Well i have Akregator load every blog entry, so most likely konqueror/khtml is used to render the blog entry.
The point is, this is the first time an entry shows up as expected, so i was curious if there have been any changes.
Don’t get too many headaches, i just felt the need to mention the problem, as i thought you might want to know.
September 27th, 2006 at 10:40 am
O_o this one showed up fine? Now that makes even less sense..I’ll have to play with it, thanks for letting me know. I’ve made absolutely no changes to the way my site works other then the skin/size change in the past few months.
October 12th, 2006 at 11:15 am
How you doin. I gave the vobcopy a go as well (after you wrote about it) and had the same problem with a spanish soundtrack loading in mplayer. So i gave it a go in kaffeine and it was in english. Then i realised all i had to was cycle through the sound tracks within the vob which can be done by pressing # in mplayer. Maybe that was the problem with you?