Correspondent:: Pope Phil Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:47:40 +0000 (UTC)
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not that I would ever encourage or advocate such a thing - or even suggest that anyone here would be
involved in these activities, but what do 'them that know' used for ripping DVDs on PCs?
purely of academic interest, I assure you
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0" Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:57:00 -0700
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Pope Phil wrote:
>
> not that I would ever encourage or advocate such a thing
> - or even suggest that anyone here would be involved in
> these activities, but what do 'them that know' used for
> ripping DVDs on PCs?
>
> purely of academic interest, I assure you
Ah, it is quite legal to *copy* DVDs of your own make.
The trouble is that the best, in my opinion, DVD backup
software also comes with that gosh darn it illegal
decoder that you should never, ever use under any
circumstance.
Anyway, it is a bit of a process, but not impossible,
to do a crackerjack good job of it.
1) First, use a program called "smartripper v2.41"
which is free download and readily available. Once
you open smartripper, peruse it to select options,
such as what type audio, to also backup subtitles,
etc. Save all the files it moves to your HD.
2) The files you will get with smartripper are of
the "VOB" format, and about 1GB each in size. A
feature length movie is commonly over 4GB so make
sure you have at least 7GB free space.
3) Then you use a different software called "DVD2AVI"
which will load all of the VOB files at once, then
tell it to "save project", a "d2v" file. It will also
save a "wav" audio file. The next step is to combine
the two into an "mpg" file.
4) The very best software for this is not free,
however. It is called TMPGEnc, and it is by far the
best mpeg editor out there. It would be very polite
to buy a copy, unlike all those individuals who get
a WAREZ version for free.
5) Anyway, you process the d2v project with wav audio
through TMPGEnc, and you get VCD mpg output.
for further info: http://www.doom9.org/
--
"YOU BELONG TO US NOW!"
"GET DOWN WITH MY SICKNESS!!"
--Kino Beman, brand name
Correspondent:: IMBJR Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:43:59 +0000
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:57:00 -0700, in reply to "nu-monet v7.0"
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>Pope Phil wrote:
>>
>> not that I would ever encourage or advocate such a thing
>> - or even suggest that anyone here would be involved in
>> these activities, but what do 'them that know' used for
>> ripping DVDs on PCs?
>>
>> purely of academic interest, I assure you
>
>Ah, it is quite legal to *copy* DVDs of your own make.
>
>The trouble is that the best, in my opinion, DVD backup
>software also comes with that gosh darn it illegal
>decoder that you should never, ever use under any
>circumstance.
>
>Anyway, it is a bit of a process, but not impossible,
>to do a crackerjack good job of it.
>
>1) First, use a program called "smartripper v2.41"
>which is free download and readily available. Once
>you open smartripper, peruse it to select options,
>such as what type audio, to also backup subtitles,
>etc. Save all the files it moves to your HD.
Yup.
>
>2) The files you will get with smartripper are of
>the "VOB" format, and about 1GB each in size. A
>feature length movie is commonly over 4GB so make
>sure you have at least 7GB free space.
>
>3) Then you use a different software called "DVD2AVI"
>which will load all of the VOB files at once, then
>tell it to "save project", a "d2v" file. It will also
>save a "wav" audio file. The next step is to combine
>the two into an "mpg" file.
I've had trouble with DVD2AVI. Maybe I've got a wonky copy.
>
>4) The very best software for this is not free,
>however. It is called TMPGEnc, and it is by far the
>best mpeg editor out there. It would be very polite
>to buy a copy, unlike all those individuals who get
>a WAREZ version for free.
Eh? I have a version that's free and not warez. Unless some naughty
website lied to me.
>
>5) Anyway, you process the d2v project with wav audio
>through TMPGEnc, and you get VCD mpg output.
>
>for further info: http://www.doom9.org/
Getting the video and audio streams to keep in sync is the bum-biter.
Correspondent:: Pope Phil Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:55:05 +0000 (UTC)
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what about recreating menus and special features etc.?
nu-monet v7.0 wrote:
> Pope Phil wrote:
>
>>not that I would ever encourage or advocate such a thing
>>- or even suggest that anyone here would be involved in
>>these activities, but what do 'them that know' used for
>>ripping DVDs on PCs?
>>
>>purely of academic interest, I assure you
>
>
> Ah, it is quite legal to *copy* DVDs of your own make.
>
> The trouble is that the best, in my opinion, DVD backup
> software also comes with that gosh darn it illegal
> decoder that you should never, ever use under any
> circumstance.
>
> Anyway, it is a bit of a process, but not impossible,
> to do a crackerjack good job of it.
>
> 1) First, use a program called "smartripper v2.41"
> which is free download and readily available. Once
> you open smartripper, peruse it to select options,
> such as what type audio, to also backup subtitles,
> etc. Save all the files it moves to your HD.
>
> 2) The files you will get with smartripper are of
> the "VOB" format, and about 1GB each in size. A
> feature length movie is commonly over 4GB so make
> sure you have at least 7GB free space.
>
> 3) Then you use a different software called "DVD2AVI"
> which will load all of the VOB files at once, then
> tell it to "save project", a "d2v" file. It will also
> save a "wav" audio file. The next step is to combine
> the two into an "mpg" file.
>
> 4) The very best software for this is not free,
> however. It is called TMPGEnc, and it is by far the
> best mpeg editor out there. It would be very polite
> to buy a copy, unlike all those individuals who get
> a WAREZ version for free.
>
> 5) Anyway, you process the d2v project with wav audio
> through TMPGEnc, and you get VCD mpg output.
>
> for further info: http://www.doom9.org/
>
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0" Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:51:08 -0700
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Pope Phil wrote:
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> what about recreating menus and special features etc.?
Part of this presents a problem, as interactive
menus are a feature of DVDs, but VCDs are just
mpg files saved to a disk in the VCD format,
".dat", with support files. So when you put in
a DVD you get a menu, but with a VCD you just
get however many unnamed selections #1, #2,
whatever, based on how many movie you have on
the disk.
If special features are movies, then they are
different VOB files. This happens a lot, so
you have a choice of VOB1_1, VOB1_2, etc. and
VOB2_1, VOB2_2, etc. Smartripper *assumes* that
the *larger* of these VOB *sets*, say the 2_x set,
is the movie. The 1_x set is the special feature
movie. So after you rip your movie, and prolly
process it and delete the huge VOB files, then
you go back and smartrip the special features.
You probably don't want to rip them all at once,
because most special features you only want to
look at once, not every damn time you watch the
movie. So you process them as seperate files,
and maybe even put them on different disks.
Other special features, like stills and music
don't xlate to VCD disks.
BTW, one of the best sets of extra features out
there, from all of the great movies ever made,
is, of all things, on the Rocky Horror Picture
Show DVD. They really did a good job on that.
--
"YOU BELONG TO US NOW!"
"GET DOWN WITH MY SICKNESS!!"
--Kino Beman, brand name
Correspondent:: endus Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:55:06 -0500
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:47:40 +0000 (UTC), Pope Phil
wrote:
>
>not that I would ever encourage or advocate such a thing - or even suggest that anyone here would be
>involved in these activities, but what do 'them that know' used for ripping DVDs on PCs?
>
>purely of academic interest, I assure you
DVDShrink is what everyone uses. Rip it to ISO (and compress if need
be) with DVDShrink and then burn with Nero. Doesn't get much easier
than that.
--
endus at the domain endus dot com
Let us visualize the secure man; and by this term, I mean
a man who has settled for financial and personal security
for his goal in life...His ideas and ideals are those of
society in general and he is accepted as a respectable,
but average and prosaic man. But is he a man? Has he
any self-respect or pride in himself? How could he, when
he has risked nothing and gained nothing...How does he feel
when he realizes that he has barely tasted the meal of life;
when he sees the prison he has made for himself in pursuit
of the almighty dollar? If he thinks this is all well and
good, fine, but think of the tragedy of a man who has sacrificed
his freedom on the altar of security, and wishes he could turn
back the hands of time. A man is to be pitied who lacked the
courage to accept the challenge of freedom and depart from the
cushion of security and see life as it is instead of living it
second-hand. - Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway
Correspondent:: Rich Clark aka Left Rev Egg Plant Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 03:05:08 -0500
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Pope Phil wrote:
>
> not that I would ever encourage or advocate such a thing - or even
> suggest that anyone here would be involved in these activities, but what
> do 'them that know' used for ripping DVDs on PCs?
>
> purely of academic interest, I assure you
MandrakeLinux, dvd:rip.
Correspondent:: Pope Phil Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:20:17 +0000 (UTC)
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ok. I was naive - I /should/ have said "ripping DVDs on PCs running Windows"
Rich Clark aka Left Rev Egg Plant wrote:
> Pope Phil wrote:
>
>>
>> not that I would ever encourage or advocate such a thing - or even
>> suggest that anyone here would be involved in these activities, but
>> what do 'them that know' used for ripping DVDs on PCs?
>>
>> purely of academic interest, I assure you
>
>
> MandrakeLinux, dvd:rip.
Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:50:32 +1100
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Pope Phil wrote:
> ok. I was naive - I /should/ have said "ripping DVDs on PCs running
> Windows"
i said GORDIANKNOT.
don't make me google it for you.
Correspondent:: Pope Phil Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:05:26 +0000 (UTC)
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hey. don't DO anything on my account
nikolai kingsley wrote:
> Pope Phil wrote:
>
>> ok. I was naive - I /should/ have said "ripping DVDs on PCs running
>> Windows"
>
>
>
> i said GORDIANKNOT.
>
> don't make me google it for you.
Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:12:04 +1100
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> hey. don't DO anything on my account
a) you're a top-posting ignoramerus.
b) http://gordianknot.sourceforge.net/
Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:50:06 +1100
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>> not that I would ever encourage or advocate such a thing - or even
>> suggest that anyone here would be involved in these activities, but
>> what do 'them that know' used for ripping DVDs on PCs?
>>
>> purely of academic interest, I assure you
>
> MandrakeLinux, dvd:rip.