This used to be an ultra-huge monolithic fucking page with too much information. I recently found out you don't need a lot to get your DVDs backed up under Linux. A friend of mine is an obsessive digital packrat. He still has 5.25" floppies with CGA images he bought during the 80's. (I only slightly exaggerate). He is presently in the process of ripping his entire DVD collection. Under Win32, he found it such a huge pain to rip DVD-->DivX that he's just bought a DVD writer and begun copying DVDs. Most layer2 DVDs have enough extra 'crap' that you can just copy the movie onto a single-layer DVD and be happy. I've tried to rip DVDs on Linux off&on with no success for about 6 months now. All websites on Google suggest "dvd::rip". My DVD of TheWorldAccordingToGarp? is somehow hozed and won't play right -- it skips and pauses and the audio is very broken, as though there was a huge scratch on the DVD although looking at it, it doesn't appear to have any defects. This incident got me back into the mode of trying to figure out how to rip DVDs under Linux (the only OS I use anymore). If I could rip this to DivX?, then I could watch it w/out the glitches that completely ruin any sitting of this movie. Found out that "mencode" of the mplayer/mencode duo does an admirable job ripping straight from DVD-->DivX in a single pass. Start your search for getting these apps working here: mplayer HQ. Apparently, the Win32 process is quite convoluted and nasty, involving about 6 or 7 different software packages and at least three sessions of interactivity to get it done. So I just thought I'd share the knowledge: Linux with a minimum of hassle will get you simple DVD ripping to DivX?. Commandline I used to rip Garp to AVI: mencoder -dvd 1 -alang en -o "Garp.avi" \
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1800 \
-oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:vol=3
The only parts I understand are vbitrate=1800 means a fairly high-quality rip, which is comparable to the original movie. cbr:vol=3 means use constant bitrate encoding for the MP3 channel (so that VirtualDub? won't freak on it, apparently), and vol=3 means preamplify the volume. I expect vol=3 isn't smart enough to filter loud noises to avoid clipping, so YMMV here. --
PhiloVivero
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