How to rip/transform a dvd movie to a IPOD compat. format??

[vasco]

Thanks for the help, this is the only thing I still don't know how to do with Linux...
And now I have my notebook with opensuse 10.3 and nothing else... and will never go back to Mr Windows again!
thanks

regards, Vasco

[flebber]

I don't have an Ipod my phone plays 3gp clips what does is an Ipod supported codec ?

[hovh03]

I use DVDRip. It's a bit hard to get it to setup. Try using "smart" software management and pbone.net.

SMART Package Manager - SUSE Wiki

This is for 10.2, however, it also works with 10.3. I just edit each channel, and change from 10.2 to 10.3 in the URL (some of them doesn't work, just change back). You can test them in the web browser.

DVDRip got me a big time when it complains transcode not found, but I installed it. I fixed the problem after I delete the ~/.dvdrip folder. Also, it fails on certain DVDs, and install dvddecss (or something like that), and it works.

[flebber]

Okay so what codec/format are you Ipod video's ending up in mpeg avi etc.

[hovh03]

In case of ripping DVD, you use DVDRip, but it actually calls transcode after the rip. Check out this:

Re: [transcode-users] IPod Video formats

[flebber]

so mpeg4 is the ipod format.

[flebber]

then answer = k9copy

actions menu and create mpeg4

If it doesn't let me know.

[hovh03]

From the linked I provided, it requires the mpeg4 container and ACC. You may also need it at certain resolution.

Quote:

1. There are two MPEG-4s. One is the MPEG-4 video compression
algorithm/format. I don't know about ffmpeg, but xvid does fine here
(you need to write a config file that disables certain advanced MPEG-4
features). I have done many successful test transcodings using xvid.
The other MPEG-4 is the MPEG-4 container format, which is a format for
interleaving audio and video streams for streaming over the 'net.
Transcode does *not* make MPEG-4 container files, it makes AVI files
(a much more common container format).

2. The iPod plays MP3s, but it will not play video files whose audio
stream is encoded in MP3 format. It will *only* play video files with
AAC-encoded audio. This part took me the longest to figure out.

What I ended up doing was this:

1. Run transcode specifying xvid for the video codec and 'wav' for the
audio codec. This made an AVI containing the video stream and a dummy
audio stream, and a WAV containing the uncompressed audio portion of
the stream.

1.1. (Optional) Run normalize [http://normalize.nongnu.org/] on the
WAV file (very helpful for really quiet sources)


2. Run faac [http://www.audiocoding.com/] on the WAV file to produce
an M4A file (make sure you use the m4a extension, or specify -w, so
faac knows that the file is going into an mp4 file)

3. Use gpac (aka MP4Box) [http://gpac.sourceforge.net/] to combine the
video stream from the AVI file produced in step 1 with the M4A file
produced in step 2. Make sure you explicitly request only the video
stream, I had a file that things tried to play but failed miserably at
when I just specified the .avi file:
# Good
MP4Box transcoded.mp4 -add transcoded.avi#video -add transcoded.m4a
# Bad
MP4Box transcoded.mp4 -add transcoded.avi -add transcoded.m4a

[flebber]

Okay but I suggested K9copy because it is very configurable and you can specify what audio codec and what video format you want eg in your case xvid and aac in the settings.

You are certainly doing a lot of work in the method you described, and hey if it works go for it, you did your research I like that, but for smplicity give k9copy a look all the configuration you want should be there. You can even add your m4a options into it

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[EclipseAgent]

why not use ffmpeg with the -vcodec mpeg4 switch

it can be installed with

sudo zypper install ffmpeg

must have the pacman repo.. i believe