Introduction

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• when in a rush, copy image of the dvd onto the hard drive for later ripping
• consider using 'dvdrip' if you don't plan editing video footage [easier & faster]
• despite compressing options after ripping, dvdrip will only allow copies to cdrs [not to dvds] - this is a great pity and that's why you may need info from this page

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Copying the dvd onto the hard drive

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• i.e. make a physical copy [including protection measures, scratches, dust, etc]

dd if=/dev/dvd of=/home/user/dvd_film.iso bs=2048

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Playing the dvd image [iso] from the hard drive

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• watch dvd_film.iso with xine

xine dvd:///home/user/dvd_film.iso

or

• watch dvd_film.iso with mplayer

mplayer dvd://

for more info on using mplayer try:


mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /path/to/directory/
or
man mplayer | grep dvd

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Mounting image of copied dvd & selecting/copying contents

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• mounting image

mkdir /mnt/dvd_film
mount dvd_film.iso /mnt/dvd_film -t iso9660 -o loop

• selecting [i.e. copying] video files

mkdir /home/user/dvd_film_files2encode
cd /mnt/dvd_film/video_ts/
cp *vob /home/user/dvd_film_files2encode/
cd /home/user/dvd_film_files2encode/
ls -sh [to check contents & size]

• umounting & removing image

umount dvd_film.iso
rmdir /mnt/dvd_film
rm /home/user/dvd_film.iso

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Encoding [compressing] video files [.vob] to mpeg4

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• use transcode

transcode -y ffmpeg -F mpeg4 -w 2000,120,90 \
-C 3 -I 5 -Q 5 -R 1 \
-J unsharp,hqdn3d,smooth=0.3 \
--encode_fields b \
-i vts_01_0.vob -o film_m4v.avi

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Editing video files [.vob] under Cinelerra

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• WARNING: you needn't copy files nor umount & remove image of the dvd_film.iso as described above
• using mpeg3toc [comes with cinelerra]

mpeg3toc -v /mnt/dvd_film/video_ts/vts_01_0.ifo /home/user/dvd_film_files2encode/dvd1.toc
mpeg3toc -v /mnt/dvd_film/video_ts/vts_02_0.ifo /home/user/dvd_film_files2encode/dvd2.toc
mpeg3toc -v /mnt/dvd_film/video_ts/vts_03_0.ifo /home/user/dvd_film_files2encode/dvd3.toc
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• note: do so for each .ifo file
  video_ts.ifo may produce an error message
• launch cinelerra
• load dvd.toc
  [select 'replace project & concatenate tracks' if relevant]

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