[TriLUG] Linux DVD duplication

[Corey Mutter]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 04:29:46PM -0500, Ken Mink wrote:
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> If you're looking to rip just the movie track and create a new disk, things
> get complicated. I've used dvdrip (http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/) with good
> results for ripping. It's available from freshrpms. I generally then just
> save the ripped file to a standard data dvd. This simplifies things, but
> limits playback for computers rather than hardware dvd players. If you want
> a dvd that hardware dvd players can use, you'll need to search for dvd
> authoring software. I just do that on my Mac, so I can't point you to any
> good Linux ones.

dvdauthor (.sourceforge.net) is the one I use for burning MythTV content 
to DVD. There's a bunch of options for creating menus and such, which I 
neither use nor understand. I just create a one-chapter-per-file 
filesystem in the "dvd" subdirectory, like this:

dvdauthor -o dvd foo1.mpg foo2.mpg...
dvdauthor -o dvd -T (generates TOC)

Then the "dvd" directory is put into a UDF filesystem with mkisofs, 
and bob's your uncle.  

If the MPEGs aren't already in DVD format, do this with mjpegtools: 

mpeg2desc -a 0 -o audio.mpa -v 0 -o video.mpv < original.mpg
mplex -f 8 -o foo%d.mpg autio.mpa video.mpv

This pulls the original apart into audio and video streams, then 
puts them back together in mplex's format #8, which has space for 
something or other VOB-related. 

Corey

> 
> Good luck,
> Ken
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