From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Px2iS-0005Ro-9O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:37:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55C94E05AF; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:35:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FEEE05AF for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyg14 with SMTP id 14so4974612qyg.19 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:35:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=RfHuKb3nJE974wBSQv2P44QTW+GRbTrl4ODCZf0TvkE=; b=ubcg3XGZCkRe7bruh7yjoHYl2trVRDAvD4ZdLfIEG4HasRyCN/fEmqPpKrBrspl9qq THVjoq+pEXTM/Lqg/SsKAXWFz7BUl9rz4xUdEjxSDf5pzPM+iQAJXD6kqGPFu3ZHIoPp 0V5xbxn2UVucY8CSKjqkupvtQRGTuxOUP/iho= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=jG7HzULznjKRouf/TdgUcW7OINe7xM4zNrzG/xDQ+7AbJvF+uleI/77Ytzky4t6AI9 sgnjZsp2qlYN14kOM7mnzSKYA7ik7B88lg0Zhtx6MibAcVnUs3OF3j5SYuUax+LI8b/K 0cM8jRt+Kxth4I64ZqL+DFtmw/HDB3JzSalnM= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.101.135 with SMTP id c7mr4322421qco.185.1299612943382; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:35:43 -0800 (PST) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.250.141 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 11:35:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:35:43 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: _EmAtlHEZu3D79q7h4OWI9KfXZE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a2b7e269e562956fa86278ac028c9dc1 On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I have a large DVD(movie) collection, that I want > copied to hard drive(s) and a database set up > about the movies. Since disc is cheap > ($75/2TB) I'm not even going to fool around > with conversion or compression, i.e. MPEG-2 > is fine for now, unless the process can > be automated (see schema below). Naturally > being able to store video in different formats > would be a big plus. > > I'm very flexible on the DB so any software > package that already exists in a (gui) tool > form, so that I can set it up with simple > instructions for an adolescent to: > =A0load the dvd > =A0execute the script or simple procedure > =A0wait until dvd movie is stored on disk > =A0then swap out for another DVD... > > > > > What software exists, or what software > would be easy to script up such an endeavor? Basically all of the GUI DVD-ripping/recoding software are just shells to run the commandline tools like transcode, ffmpeg, mencoder etc. If you find a GUI tool to do as you wish, it should be trivial to look in its logs and see exactly which commands it ran and then put that into a shell script for repeated usage. Ripping the original DVD contents is the easy part (just use vobcopy), converting it to any other format can be more tricky because you get problems like audio and video being out of sync that sometimes can't be fixed without manual tuning.