Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 16/3/2011, at 12:44pm, Joost Roeleveld wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 March 2011 18:27:59 Stroller wrote:
>> I've got a Perl script to wrapper `dvdbackup && mkisofs`, reduce typing a
>> little and do some error-checking. ... In the next version
>> I'd like to remove the "unskippable" flag from all titles / chapters, as it
>> seems a little daft to have ripped all one's DVDs to a network RAID array,
>> and yet still have to suffer the dumb FBI warnings. All the Windows rippers
>> do this, so I assume it's possible to implement, but I have no idea how
>> difficult.
> ...
> As for the "unskippable" flag, I wonder if the other tools "rebuild" the menu 
> structure and remove it that way. I have in the past played with making dvd-
> menus myself and it wasn't too hard. (following the howtos)

That one can make DVD menus with GUI Linux applications indicates that it must be possible to make such changes. I would imagine (or at least hope) that it's not so much a case of rebuilding the menus from scratch, but just as case of flipping a single bit - the equivalent in a binary-file of changing "skippable=no" to "yes" in a text file.

What programs have you used to make DVD menus in the past?

Stroller.