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4 The following packages need to be installed on your system:
6 Package Dependencies (apt-get install these for example):
7 lsdvd dvdauthor gddrescue dvdbackup tovid mencoder mplayer genisoimage libdvdcss2
9 Specific Executable (program) Dependencies (must be found in $PATH):
10 volname makexml lsdvd dvdauthor gddrescue dvdbackup mencoder mplayer mkisofs
12 Optional Dependencies:
13 lookup imdb info/posters for mythvideo: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Fill_mythvideo_metadata.pl
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18 The following steps should be followed to pull this code project
19 into a local GIT repository (local directory):
21 This command will create a directory called "rip_dvd" in the CWD and pull the code for this project:
22 > git clone http://git.pippins.net/rip_dvd/.git rip_dvd
24 To pull updates in the future of this project into your local directory:
28 To see the changelog for what you have pulled, run this command:
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32 ENABLING XVID TO ENCODE USING MULTICORES
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34 The libxvidcore4 package that you can get through ubuntu or debian
35 is version 1.1.0. They didn't enable multi-core encoding using this
36 library until version 1.2.0. Since you can't get that in a package,
37 you can build it from source easily. Since the xvid codec (this lib)
38 is used by mencoder by rip_dvd in all of its xvid profiles (the default),
39 you can speed up the encode process quite a bit if you enable multi-cores.
40 Follow these instructions to enable the xvid encoding to use multi-cores:
42 > wget http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.2.1.tar.gz
43 > gunzip xvidcore-1.2.1.tar.gz
44 > tar xvf xvidcore-1.2.1.tar
45 > cd xvidcore/build/generic
46 > ./configure --prefix=/usr
50 > sudo rm libxvidcore.so.4
51 > sudo ln -s libxvidcore.so.4.2 libxvidcore.so.4
53 After you do these steps, when rip_dvd is running using any xvid profile,
54 you will note with 'top' that the mencoder process is using > 100% of your CPU.
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59 You'll need to copy the rip_dvd.conf.dist file to a local copy of the
60 file called rip_dvd.conf. This way, you can customize the settings
61 needed by the script in a file that isn't tracked by GIT. The conf
62 file tracked by GIT (rip_dvd.conf.dist) will then contain the defaults
63 the script needs to run. You can override these in your own rip_dvd.conf
64 file you create locally. This will allow you to get updates from my
65 GIT repository at a later point in time without blowing away your
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71 Copy the menu files provided in the GIT repository to your mythtv
74 > cp optical_menu.xml /usr/share/mythtv/
75 > cp rip_dvd_menu.xml /usr/share/mythtv/
77 You'll also need to edit the rip_dvd_menu.xml file so that the paths,
78 commands, buttons, actions, meet your needs to accomplish the common
79 encoding tasks you will want to do.
81 The optical_menu.xml file was modified with a single entry for the
82 rip_dvd_menu.xml file. You can take a look at this entry in this file
83 and place it in any xml file you want to get it on the menu you want.
84 I choose to place it on the optical menu.
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90 Rip a DVD into a compressed AVI file with default xvidvhq profile:
91 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -b 2000 -x
93 Rip a DVD into a compressed AVI file with default xvidvhq profile scaling to 320x240 compressed video size:
94 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -b 2000 -x -a 320:240
96 Rip a DVD into a compressed AVI file with default xvidvhq profile targetting a certain compressed video filesize (in MB):
97 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -b 2000 -x -s 650
99 Rip a DVD into a VOB file:
100 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -v
102 Rip a DVD into an ISO file:
103 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -m
105 Rip a DVD into a burnable DVD compliant folder (creating VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders):
106 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -f
108 Rip a VOB file into a compressed AVI file:
109 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -b 2000 -x -n /path/to/file.vob
111 Rip a DVD Folder into a compressed AVI file:
112 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -b 2000 -x -n /path/to/dvd/folder/that/contains/a/VIDEO_TS
114 Rip a DVD into a compressed MP4 file for an ipod:
115 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -b 2000 -x -p ipod
117 Rip a DVD into a compressed MP4 file for an ipod AND again for a compressed AVI file:
118 > dvdname=`volname /dev/dvd | awk '{ print $1 }'`
119 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -v
120 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir/ipod -b 2000 -x -p ipod -n /path/to/dest/dir/$dvdname.VOB
121 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir/xvid -b 2000 -x -p xvidvhq -n /path/to/dest/dir/$dvdname.VOB
122 > rm /path/to/dest/dir/$dvdname.VOB