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Decent DVD-Ripping Solution For Linux?

Posted by timothy on from the digital-camera-one-frame-at-a-time dept.

supersloshy writes "I'm a user of Ubuntu Linux and I have been for a little while now. Recently I've been trying to copy DVDs onto a portable media player, but everything I've tried isn't working right. dvd::rip always gets the language mixed up (for example, when ripping 'Howl's Moving Castle,' one of the files it ripped to was in Japanese instead of English), Acidrip just plain isn't working for me (not recognizing a disc with spaces in its name, refusing to encode, etc.), Thoggen is having trouble with chapters (chapter 1 repeated twice for me once), and OGMRip has the audio out of sync. What I'm looking for is a reliable program to copy the movie into a single file with none of the audio or video glitches as mentioned above. Is there even such thing on Linux? If you can't think of a decent Linux-based solution, then a Windows one is fine as long as it works."

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  1. Command Line Solution by Mr_2_718281828459045 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    vobcopy -i /folder/to/copy/to -m [executed where the dvd is mounted]
    mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o desired_iso_name.iso /directory/to/put/iso
    Done.

  2. Re:Why bother? by Hurricane78 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Unfortunately, most encoders (the people, not the programs) out there seem to be idiots. Most of the time, you still get XviD with MP3, in a AVI container. No chapters, problems with the aspect ratio (because many encoders cut off some pixels on the border, for optimization reasons), and most of all, a totally shitty quality.

    Nowadays, I expect my videos to be in this format:
    - 700-1400 MB size
    - Matroska container
    - H.264 encoded video
    - AC3 5.1 Dolby Digital or better audio
    - no visible quality difference from the original DVD, even for experts
    - includes chapters and other metadata.
    If possible, there should also be
    - Two audio streams. one in my language, one in the original language
    - Subtitles for the original language included in the container.
    - Cover and infos included in the metadata.

    If the original medium exists in a HD format, I want that quality too (of course with a bigger file size).

    No reason to own a home cinema, when you watch YouTube videos on it. ^^

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