Optional Dependencies:
lookup imdb info/posters for mythvideo: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Fill_mythvideo_metadata.pl
+HandBrake CLI video encoder (version 0.9.3 required for xvid encoding): google to find it
+HandBrake CLI video encoder (version >=0.9.4 required for mp4 encoding): http://handbrake.fr/
+You can also get these HandBrake versions from here: https://www.pippins.net/cgi-bin/index.pl?/www/files/video_utils/handbrake
+
+Windows Dependencies:
+To play back the videos in windows that use the divx encoding profiles, you'll
+need to download and install the xvid codec:
+http://www.koepi.info/xvid.html
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INSTALL
> cd rip_dvd
> git pull origin
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-ENABLING XVID TO ENCODE USING MULTICORES
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+To see the changelog for what you have pulled, run this command:
+> git whatchanged
+
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+ENABLING MENCODER XVID TO ENCODE USING MULTICORES
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The libxvidcore4 package that you can get through ubuntu or debian
is version 1.1.0. They didn't enable multi-core encoding using this
library until version 1.2.0. Since you can't get that in a package,
the script needs to run. You can override these in your own rip_dvd.conf
file you create locally. This will allow you to get updates from my
GIT repository at a later point in time without blowing away your
-local settings.
+local settings. You can put your copy of the rip_dvd.conf file in
+any of the following locations:
+
+ 1) /path/to/rip_dvd/script/rip_dvd.conf.dist
+ 2) /path/to/rip_dvd/script/rip_dvd.conf
+ 3) /etc/rip_dvd.conf
+ 4) /path/to/where/rip_dvd/is/run/from/rip_dvd.conf
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MYTHTV MENU SETUP
and place it in any xml file you want to get it on the menu you want.
I choose to place it on the optical menu.
+The menu items in these examples call the rip_dvd.wrap script.
+This is a simple script I wrote to implementation hide the full
+command line options for rip_dvd from the mythtv menu system.
+I also use this wrapper script to determine where to put the
+ripped DVD images. You can copy this example and call it something
+else on your system and change it appropriately to meet your needs.
+
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COMMAND LINE EXAMPLES
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