dvd rip?

[jmadero]

I have been trying to rip my dvd's to my computer and currently use wine with dvd shrink. I see that dvd rip might be better but I can't seem to figure out exactly how to use it. Does anyone know of a good basic tutorial? I have two issues with it so far:

1. I have to rip chapter by chapter if I do it directly to avi
2. If I do it a rip to my computer as vob and just select all the files that are on the dvd the rip is huge (like way more than the original DVD, 16-20 gigs, as it warns me that I only have 12 gigs of free space, am I sure I want to continue).


All I want to do is rip my DVD to my computer, preferably making it less than 3 gigs per dvd. Thanks all

[fingal]

It's possible under Linux, but I never got wonderful results when I tried it myself. I could certainly rip DVDs as *.avi files at around 400-500 MB.

Without getting too technical (because this can get confusing very quickly) you might like to try Avidemux. It's a good package, and all the better for being well documented. The trick is to learn:

- how to compress vob files
- how to select the correct *.vobs
- how to crop 'black space' out of movie files
- to get the soundtrack to synch with the movie...

Really, you're encoding 2 streams: the movie and the soundtrack. You'll never end up with anything as good as DVD quality though.

You can even use mplayer to rip *.vobs (to later convert to avi). I once wrote a very simple script to do this (which I never use). It's quite limited in scope and not wonderful, but it worked for me at the time. I might as well include it below.

# A simple script to rip a dvd and dump the whole 
# thing into a single file, which can later be 
# converted to another format.

#!/bin/bash
clear #Clear the screen.

#Variables to define rip options
X="mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile rippeddvd.vob"
Y="mplayer dvd://2 -dumpstream -dumpfile rippeddvd.vob"
Z="mplayer dvd://3 -dumpstream -dumpfile rippeddvd.vob"

#Get user input
echo Start ripping from chapter 1, 2 or 3?:

read number

#Show script is working.
feedback="Working ..."
echo $feedback

#Conditional stuff to handle user input and errors.

if [ "$number" = "1" ]; then $X
 elif [ "$number" = "2" ]; then $Y
 elif [ "$number" = "3" ]; then $Z
 else echo Sorry, but $number is out of range. Exiting.
 exit 1
 echo
fi

#Show ripped vob file.
echo
echo Your ripped file is:
ls -al *.vob

exit

[digitalpalmtree]

Try k9 copy

[jmadero]

thanks for the advice. I am trying out k9copy, I already have had a problem with encoding directly to .avi (it just stopped making progress, didn't lock up or anything, just didn't make any progress for about 15 minutes). So I cancelled that and now trying to go directly to a iso, is there a way to convert an iso to avi after? Thanks again

[coopstah13]

you could just mount the iso and then treat it as a virtual dvd drive, i've done that before with no problems

mount -o loop /path/to/iso /path/to/mount

I believe is the command (as root or using sudo)

[jmadero]

it actually didn't make an iso, it made vob files....I could have sworn that it said iso when I clicked the button.....I'm in finals week so won't have time to play around with it until Friday but I prefer iso over vob so if someone knows off the top of their head why it made vob's instead of an iso....thanks all

[bigtomrodney]

My personal favourite for ripping to xvid/divx is acidrip. They all use ffmpeg/transcode/mencoder or similar but some of the interfaces are severly lacking or actually make it more difficult than just going with command line.

Acidrip is a lot cleaner to look at, and while you might still have a lot of options you should find it alot easier to navigate and kick off. I find a single pass should take about 45 minutes and about 80-90 for two pass, though that second pass is worth it. Default settings should be fine but you get all of the codec and quality settings you need.

[jmadero]

acidrip is really good, I just have a couple quick questions:

1. I couldn't find a second pass option, can you tell me where it's at (I think it's well worth it with any ripping software to have a second pass)

2. My laptop seems to get pretty hot when it's running, I wanted to make sure that this isn't taxing my system to the point of causing damage (I have a Dell 9400 with some upgrades to it, for the most part cpu usage didn't go past around 30% on first core, 60% on second for the duration of the rip, a lot of it was running around 20% for each core). Is there a way for me to slow down the rip so it is cooler? I don't mind if it take a 2-3 hours to rip if it's easier on my system. Thanks!

[scm]

it actually didn't make an iso, it made vob files....I could have sworn that it said iso when I clicked the button.....I'm in finals week so won't have time to play around with it until Friday but I prefer iso over vob so if someone knows off the top of their head why it made vob's instead of an iso....thanks all

I get three options for output on k9copy: ISO, Folder and the DVD writer. Might you have inadvertently selected Folder? My ISO image comes out the same size as the DVD.